Elevation of Heidelberg, Western Cape, South Africa

Heidelberg, Western Cape, South Africa is 97 m (318 ft) above sea level.

Heidelberg's height from sea level is 97 metres, or 318 feet. GeoNames reads 84 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 84 m.

Ground within 5 km

81 m – 274 m

Mean 151 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 193 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

21st of 30

among the towns of Western Cape, and 265th of 294 in South Africa.

Cross-section through Heidelberg

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 Heidelberg; the vertical scale is the same on both.

47457WE26.3 km
West to east: from 199 m at 13 km west to 191 m at 13 km east.
47457NS26.3 km
North to south: from 445 m at 13 km north to 118 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 55 km around Heidelberg, 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 Heidelberg is

Latitude -34.090199, longitude 20.950121. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Heidelberg elevation: 97 m (318 ft) above sea level

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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 Heidelberg'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 84 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.