Elevation of Upington, Northern Cape, South Africa

Upington, Northern Cape, South Africa is 804 m (2,638 ft) above sea level.

Upington's height from sea level is 804 metres, or 2,638 feet. GeoNames reads 808 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 848 m.

Also written: Paballelo.

Ground within 5 km

787 m – 838 m

Mean 812 m across the 9.6 km square centred on the town, 51 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

25th of 28

among the towns of Northern Cape, and 205th of 294 in South Africa.

Nearest town

Keimoes

38 km to the SW, at 753 m, 51 m lower.

Cross-section through Upington

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Upington; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 856 m at 14 km west to 843 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 885 m at 14 km north to 821 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 57 km around Upington, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 57 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 Upington

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Keimoes	38 km	SW	753 m (2,470 ft)	−51 m

Where Upington is

Latitude -28.45746, longitude 21.242649. 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 Upington'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 808 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.