Elevation of Melut, Upper Nile, South Sudan

Melut, Upper Nile, South Sudan is 392 m (1,286 ft) above sea level.

Melut's height from sea level is 392 metres, or 1,286 feet. GeoNames reads 395 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Malūţ.

Ground within 5 km

389 m – 395 m

Mean 392 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 6 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

12th of 18

among the towns of Upper Nile, and 107th of 113 in South Sudan.

Nearest town

16.7 km to the N, at 394 m, 2 m higher.

Cross-section through Melut

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Melut; the vertical scale is the same on both.

422362WE28.5 km
West to east: from 395 m at 14 km west to 390 m at 14 km east.
422362NS28.5 km
North to south: from 393 m at 14 km north to 393 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Melut, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 60 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 Melut

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Kaka 16.7 kmN 394 m (1,293 ft) +2 m
Palogue 34.9 kmE 392 m (1,286 ft) same
Baloish 36.7 kmE 391 m (1,283 ft) −1 m

Where Melut is

Latitude 10.4403404, longitude 32.2015644. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Melut elevation: 392 m (1,286 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 Melut'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 395 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.