Elevation of Hermanus, Western Cape, South Africa

Hermanus, Western Cape, South Africa is 10 m (33 ft) above sea level.

Hermanus's height from sea level is 10 metres, or 33 feet. GeoNames reads 27 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 27 m.

Also written: Greater Hermanus Zwelihle.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 688 m

Mean 122 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 688 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

29th of 30

among the towns of Western Cape, and 293rd of 294 in South Africa.

Nearest town

Caledon

25.5 km to the NE, at 265 m, 255 m higher.

Cross-section through Hermanus

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Hermanus; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 53 m at 13 km west to 1 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 120 m at 13 km north to 0 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around Hermanus, 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 Hermanus

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Caledon	25.5 km	NE	265 m (869 ft)	+255 m
Grabouw	35.9 km	NW	328 m (1,076 ft)	+318 m

Where Hermanus is

Latitude -34.4092004, longitude 19.2504436. 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 Hermanus'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 27 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.