Elevation of Somerset West, Western Cape, South Africa

Somerset West, Western Cape, South Africa is 40 m (131 ft) above sea level.

Somerset West's height from sea level is 40 metres, or 131 feet. GeoNames reads 13 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 85 m.

Also written: Macassar Somerset Wes Strand.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 815 m

Mean 100 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 815 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

24th of 30

among the towns of Western Cape, and 279th of 294 in South Africa.

Nearest town

Stellenbosch

15.7 km to the N, at 115 m, 75 m higher.

Cross-section through Somerset West

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Somerset West; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 0 m at 13 km west to 745 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 85 m at 13 km north to 470 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around Somerset West, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 55 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 Somerset West

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Stellenbosch	15.7 km	N	115 m (377 ft)	+75 m
Grabouw	18.2 km	SE	328 m (1,076 ft)	+288 m

Peaks and passes near Somerset West

Victoria Peak, peak at 1,591 m (5,220 ft), 19.6 km to the E — 1,551 m above the town.
Somerset-Sneeukop, peak at 1,590 m (5,217 ft), 14.2 km to the E — 1,550 m above the town.
The Dome, peak at 1,137 m (3,730 ft), 6.5 km to the NE — 1,097 m above the town.
Sir Lowrys Pass View Site, pass at 450 m (1,476 ft), 11.5 km to the SE.

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Somerset West is

Latitude -34.076939, longitude 18.83782. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

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 West'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 13 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.