Elevation of George, Western Cape, South Africa

George, Western Cape, South Africa is 230 m (755 ft) above sea level.

George's height from sea level is 230 metres, or 755 feet. GeoNames reads 232 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 232 m.

Also written: Thembalethu.

Ground within 5 km

178 m – 772 m

Mean 268 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 594 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

11th of 30

among the towns of Western Cape, and 250th of 294 in South Africa.

Nearest town

Mosselbay

37.8 km to the SW, at 39 m, 191 m lower.

Cross-section through George

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 George; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 207 m at 13 km west to 215 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 636 m at 13 km north to 0 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around George, 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 George

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Mosselbay	37.8 km	SW	39 m (128 ft)	−191 m

Peaks and passes near George

Vensterberg, peak at 1,309 m (4,295 ft), 9.8 km to the NW — 1,079 m above the town.

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where George is

Latitude -33.9666667, longitude 22.45. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at George'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 232 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.