Elevation of Balangod̨a, Ratnapura, Sri Lanka

Balangod̨a, Ratnapura, Sri Lanka is 536 m (1,759 ft) above sea level.

Balangod̨a's height from sea level is 536 metres, or 1,759 feet. GeoNames reads 535 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 530 m.

Ground within 5 km

339 m – 1,010 m

Mean 579 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 671 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

11th of 60

among the towns of Sri Lanka with a reading.

Nearest town

29.4 km to the NW, at 1,279 m, 743 m higher.

Cross-section through Balangod̨a

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Balangod̨a; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,72434WE28.7 km
West to east: from 542 m at 14 km west to 540 m at 14 km east.
1,72434NS28.7 km
North to south: from 1,582 m at 14 km north to 192 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Balangod̨a, 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 Balangod̨a

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Hatton (Kandy) 29.4 kmNW 1,279 m (4,196 ft) +743 m
Haputale (Badulla) 31.5 kmNE 1,456 m (4,777 ft) +920 m
Talawakele (Nuwara Eliya) 33.3 kmN 1,296 m (4,252 ft) +760 m
Ratnapura 35.3 kmW 72 m (236 ft) −464 m
Bandārāwela (Badulla) 37.3 kmNE 1,248 m (4,094 ft) +712 m

Peaks and passes near Balangod̨a

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

Where Balangod̨a is

Latitude 6.643322, longitude 80.701897. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Balangod̨a elevation: 536 m (1,759 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 Balangod̨a'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 535 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.