Elevation of Caledon, Western Cape, South Africa

Caledon, Western Cape, South Africa is 265 m (869 ft) above sea level.

Caledon's height from sea level is 265 metres, or 869 feet. GeoNames reads 260 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 247 m.

Also written: Mohokare.

Ground within 5 km

167 m – 795 m

Mean 307 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 628 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

7th of 30

among the towns of Western Cape, and 244th of 294 in South Africa.

Nearest town

Hermanus

25.5 km to the SW, at 10 m, 255 m lower.

Cross-section through Caledon

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Caledon; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 242 m at 13 km west to 285 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 338 m at 13 km north to 258 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around Caledon, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 55 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 Caledon

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Hermanus	25.5 km	SW	10 m (33 ft)	−255 m
Grabouw	38.9 km	W	328 m (1,076 ft)	+63 m

Where Caledon is

Latitude -34.2313845, longitude 19.425233. 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 Caledon'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 260 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.