Elevation of Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa

Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa is 115 m (377 ft) above sea level.

Stellenbosch's height from sea level is 115 metres, or 377 feet. GeoNames reads 122 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 136 m.

Ground within 5 km

67 m – 1,063 m

Mean 217 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 996 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

20th of 30

among the towns of Western Cape, and 263rd of 294 in South Africa.

Nearest town

Somerset West

15.7 km to the S, at 40 m, 75 m lower.

Cross-section through Stellenbosch

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 Stellenbosch; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 260 m at 13 km west to 1,335 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 177 m at 13 km north to 149 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around Stellenbosch, 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 Stellenbosch

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Somerset West	15.7 km	S	40 m (131 ft)	−75 m
Paarl	25.2 km	N	231 m (758 ft)	+116 m
Grabouw	27.8 km	SE	328 m (1,076 ft)	+213 m

Peaks and passes near Stellenbosch

Victoria Peak, peak at 1,591 m (5,220 ft), 18.1 km to the SE — 1,476 m above the town.
Somerset-Sneeukop, peak at 1,590 m (5,217 ft), 15.8 km to the SE — 1,475 m above the town.
The Dome, peak at 1,137 m (3,730 ft), 10.6 km to the S — 1,022 m above the town.
Sir Lowrys Pass View Site, pass at 450 m (1,476 ft), 24.4 km to the S.

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

Where Stellenbosch is

Latitude -33.9366667, longitude 18.8613889. 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 Stellenbosch'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 122 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.