Elevation of Kurunegala, Sri Lanka
Kurunegala, Sri Lanka is 209 m (686 ft) above sea level.
Kurunegala's height from sea level is 209 metres, or 686 feet. GeoNames reads 146 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 116 m.
Ground within 5 km
Mean 145 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 255 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Kurunegala
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 Kurunegala; the vertical scale is the same on both.
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 Kurunegala
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kēgalla (Kegalla) | 25.9 km | S | 207 m (679 ft) | −2 m |
| Mātale (Matale) | 28.4 km | E | 370 m (1,214 ft) | +161 m |
| Kadugannawa (Kandy) | 30.4 km | SE | 596 m (1,955 ft) | +387 m |
| Kuliyapitiya | 35.4 km | W | 35 m (115 ft) | −174 m |
| Harispattuwa (Kandy) | 37.2 km | SE | 564 m (1,850 ft) | +355 m |
Peaks and passes near Kurunegala
- Etapola, peak at 1,265 m (4,150 ft), 23.5 km to the E — 1,056 m above the town.
- Bisogala, peak at 823 m (2,700 ft), 14 km to the E — 614 m above the town.
- Kauwel, peak at 699 m (2,293 ft), 11.2 km to the SE — 490 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Kurunegala is
Latitude 7.4833333, longitude 80.3666667. 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 Kurunegala'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 146 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.