Elevation of Fort Beaufort, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Fort Beaufort, Eastern Cape, South Africa is 434 m (1,424 ft) above sea level.

Fort Beaufort's height from sea level is 434 metres, or 1,424 feet. GeoNames reads 444 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 444 m.

Also written: Kwatinidubu Bhofolo.

Ground within 5 km

411 m – 782 m

Mean 500 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 371 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

37th of 48

among the towns of Eastern Cape, and 236th of 294 in South Africa.

Nearest town

Alice

19.1 km to the E, at 543 m, 109 m higher.

Cross-section through Fort Beaufort

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 Fort Beaufort; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 649 m at 13 km west to 601 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 870 m at 13 km north to 446 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 56 km around Fort Beaufort, 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 Fort Beaufort

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Alice	19.1 km	E	543 m (1,781 ft)	+109 m
Adelaide	32.2 km	W	593 m (1,946 ft)	+159 m

Where Fort Beaufort is

Latitude -32.774059, longitude 26.6329. 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 Fort Beaufort'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 444 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.