Elevation of Calitzdorp, Western Cape, South Africa

Calitzdorp, Western Cape, South Africa is 243 m (797 ft) above sea level.

Calitzdorp's height from sea level is 243 metres, or 797 feet. GeoNames reads 260 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 260 m.

Ground within 5 km

208 m – 577 m

Mean 297 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 369 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

8th of 30

among the towns of Western Cape, and 247th of 294 in South Africa.

Cross-section through Calitzdorp

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Calitzdorp; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,139 m at 13 km west to 362 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 1,151 m at 13 km north to 556 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around Calitzdorp, 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.

Where Calitzdorp is

Latitude -33.5373, longitude 21.685381. 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 Calitzdorp'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.