Elevation of Wartburg, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa

Wartburg, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa is 930 m (3,051 ft) above sea level.

Wartburg's height from sea level is 930 metres, or 3,051 feet. GeoNames reads 950 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

744 m – 948 m

Mean 879 m across the 9.5 km square centred on the town, 204 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

25th of 50

among the towns of KwaZulu Natal, and 186th of 294 in South Africa.

Nearest town

28.1 km to the SW, at 649 m, 281 m lower.

Cross-section through Wartburg

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Wartburg; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,170436WE26.9 km
West to east: from 696 m at 13 km west to 959 m at 13 km east.
1,170436NS26.9 km
North to south: from 1,119 m at 13 km north to 487 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 56 km around Wartburg, 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 Wartburg

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Pietermaritzburg 28.1 kmSW 649 m (2,129 ft) −281 m
Camperdown 33.8 kmS 759 m (2,490 ft) −171 m
Howick 34.5 kmW 1,016 m (3,333 ft) +86 m

Where Wartburg is

Latitude -29.4325, longitude 30.58. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Wartburg elevation: 930 m (3,051 ft) above sea level

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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 Wartburg'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 950 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.