Elevation of Butterworth, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Butterworth, Eastern Cape, South Africa is 555 m (1,821 ft) above sea level.

Butterworth's height from sea level is 555 metres, or 1,821 feet. GeoNames reads 545 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 545 m.

Also written: Ibika Gcuwa.

Ground within 5 km

504 m – 736 m

Mean 602 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 232 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

34th of 48

among the towns of Eastern Cape, and 226th of 294 in South Africa.

Nearest town

Dutywa

29.7 km to the NE, at 815 m, 260 m higher.

Cross-section through Butterworth

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Butterworth; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 763 m at 13 km west to 614 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 800 m at 13 km north to 377 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 56 km around Butterworth, 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 Butterworth

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Dutywa	29.7 km	NE	815 m (2,674 ft)	+260 m
Komga	35.9 km	SW	649 m (2,129 ft)	+94 m

Where Butterworth is

Latitude -32.3323496, longitude 28.1446262. 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 Butterworth'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 545 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.