Elevation of Gampola, Kandy, Sri Lanka

Gampola, Kandy, Sri Lanka is 493 m (1,617 ft) above sea level.

Gampola's height from sea level is 493 metres, or 1,617 feet. GeoNames reads 492 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 490 m.

Ground within 5 km

487 m – 1,042 m

Mean 634 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 555 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

6th of 6

among the towns of Kandy, and 12th of 60 in Sri Lanka.

Nearest town

Kadugannawa

11.9 km to the NW, at 596 m, 103 m higher.

Cross-section through Gampola

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Gampola; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 322 m at 14 km west to 985 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 600 m at 14 km north to 983 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Gampola, 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 Gampola

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Kadugannawa	11.9 km	NW	596 m (1,955 ft)	+103 m
Nāwalapiţiya	14 km	S	597 m (1,959 ft)	+104 m
Harispattuwa	14.9 km	NE	564 m (1,850 ft)	+71 m
Kandy	14.9 km	NE	564 m (1,850 ft)	+71 m
Talawakele (Nuwara Eliya)	26.6 km	S	1,296 m (4,252 ft)	+803 m

Peaks and passes near Gampola

Weliketiya, peak at 1,828 m (5,997 ft), 24.5 km to the E — 1,335 m above the town.
Katterawella, peak at 1,668 m (5,472 ft), 17.8 km to the SE — 1,175 m above the town.
Diyatalawa, peak at 1,531 m (5,023 ft), 24.6 km to the E — 1,038 m above the town.

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

Where Gampola is

Latitude 7.1647222, longitude 80.5766667. 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 Gampola'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 492 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.