Elevation of Umzimkulu, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Umzimkulu, Eastern Cape, South Africa is 786 m (2,579 ft) above sea level.

Umzimkulu's height from sea level is 786 metres, or 2,579 feet. GeoNames reads 728 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

727 m – 1,430 m

Mean 895 m across the 9.5 km square centred on the town, 703 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

26th of 48

among the towns of Eastern Cape, and 207th of 294 in South Africa.

Nearest town

Ixopo

18.8 km to the NE, at 1,018 m, 232 m higher.

Cross-section through Umzimkulu

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 Umzimkulu; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,367 m at 13 km west to 938 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 904 m at 13 km north to 764 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 56 km around Umzimkulu, 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 Umzimkulu

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Ixopo (KwaZulu Natal)	18.8 km	NE	1,018 m (3,340 ft)	+232 m
Creighton (KwaZulu Natal)	27.1 km	N	983 m (3,225 ft)	+197 m
Harding (KwaZulu Natal)	35.8 km	S	856 m (2,808 ft)	+70 m

Where Umzimkulu is

Latitude -30.2627499, longitude 29.91425. 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 Umzimkulu'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 728 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.