Elevation of Somerset East, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Somerset East, Eastern Cape, South Africa is 774 m (2,539 ft) above sea level.

Somerset East's height from sea level is 774 metres, or 2,539 feet. GeoNames reads 748 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 748 m.

Also written: Somerset Oos KwaNojoli.

Ground within 5 km

698 m – 1,562 m

Mean 1,006 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 864 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

27th of 48

among the towns of Eastern Cape, and 208th of 294 in South Africa.

Cross-section through Somerset East

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Somerset East; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 823 m at 13 km west to 1,120 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 1,294 m at 13 km north to 681 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 56 km around Somerset East, 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.

Where Somerset East is

Latitude -32.7166667, longitude 25.5833333. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 Somerset East'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 748 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.