Elevation of Richmond, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa

Richmond, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa is 883 m (2,897 ft) above sea level.

Richmond's height from sea level is 883 metres, or 2,897 feet. GeoNames reads 883 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 838 m.

Ground within 5 km

733 m – 1,206 m

Mean 916 m across the 9.5 km square centred on the town, 473 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

26th of 50

among the towns of KwaZulu Natal, and 193rd of 294 in South Africa.

Nearest town

Camperdown

29.3 km to the NE, at 759 m, 124 m lower.

Cross-section through Richmond

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.8 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Richmond; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,303 m at 13 km west to 920 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 989 m at 13 km north to 516 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 56 km around Richmond, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 56 km across, north up; the ring marks the town.

Shading is a north-west light over the grid's own slopes. Colour follows elevation: sea level and below, 0–200 m, 500 m, 1,000 m, 2,000 m, 3,500 m, 5,000 m and above.

Towns near Richmond

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Camperdown	29.3 km	NE	759 m (2,490 ft)	−124 m
Pietermaritzburg	30.2 km	N	649 m (2,129 ft)	−234 m
Epumalanga	33.4 km	E	637 m (2,090 ft)	−246 m
Mpophomeni	36.2 km	N	1,091 m (3,579 ft)	+208 m
Ixopo	37.2 km	SW	1,018 m (3,340 ft)	+135 m

Where Richmond is

Latitude -29.87479, longitude 30.277399. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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<a href="https://www.altitude-maps.com/city/198_218,Richmond,KwaZulu+Natal,South+Africa"><img src="https://www.altitude-maps.com/embed/198_218.svg" width="240" height="60" alt="Richmond elevation: 883 m (2,897 ft) above sea level"></a>

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About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Richmond's recorded coordinates. It is the height of the ground in that cell, not of any building; a town on a slope spans several cells, and the range above says how much that matters here. GeoNames' reading of 883 m comes from a finer 90 m SRTM grid at the point it records for the town, which may sit a few hundred metres from ours; the two agreeing to within a few metres is the usual case on flat ground, and a larger gap means the ground is steep. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.