Elevation of Sigiriya, Matale, Sri Lanka

Sigiriya, Matale, Sri Lanka is 204 m (669 ft) above sea level.

Sigiriya's height from sea level is 204 metres, or 669 feet. GeoNames reads 207 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 349 m.

Also written: Sigiri.

Ground within 5 km

164 m – 224 m

Mean 200 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 60 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

3rd of 3

among the towns of Matale, and 17th of 60 in Sri Lanka.

Nearest town

Dambulla

15.2 km to the SW, at 217 m, 13 m higher.

Cross-section through Sigiriya

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 Sigiriya; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 156 m at 14 km west to 117 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 171 m at 14 km north to 274 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Sigiriya, 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 Sigiriya

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Dambulla	15.2 km	SW	217 m (712 ft)	+13 m

Peaks and passes near Sigiriya

Ritigala, peak at 534 m (1,752 ft), 20.6 km to the NW — 330 m above the town.
Inamaluwa, peak at 383 m (1,257 ft), 10.5 km to the W — 179 m above the town.
Sigiri Rock, peak at 363 m (1,191 ft), 1.4 km to the NE — 159 m above the town.

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

Where Sigiriya is

Latitude 7.95, longitude 80.75. 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 Sigiriya'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 207 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.