Elevation of Vredefort, Free State, South Africa

Vredefort, Free State, South Africa is 1,415 m (4,642 ft) above sea level.

Vredefort's height from sea level is 1,415 metres, or 4,642 feet. GeoNames reads 1,425 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1,425 m.

Also written: Mokwallo.

Ground within 5 km

1,377 m – 1,468 m

Mean 1,425 m across the 9.6 km square centred on the town, 91 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

24th of 41

among the towns of Free State, and 77th of 294 in South Africa.

Nearest town

13.8 km to the NE, at 1,383 m, 32 m lower.

Cross-section through Vredefort

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Vredefort; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,5421,327WE27.2 km
West to east: from 1,426 m at 14 km west to 1,452 m at 14 km east.
1,5421,327NS27.2 km
North to south: from 1,483 m at 14 km north to 1,401 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 57 km around Vredefort, 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 Vredefort

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Parys 13.8 kmNE 1,383 m (4,537 ft) −32 m
Koppies 33.7 kmSE 1,419 m (4,656 ft) +4 m

Where Vredefort is

Latitude -26.99655, longitude 27.37067. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Vredefort elevation: 1,415 m (4,642 ft) above sea level

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 Vredefort'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 1,425 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.