Elevation of Khartoum, Sudan

Khartoum, Sudan is 384 m (1,260 ft) above sea level.

Khartoum's height from sea level is 384 metres, or 1,260 feet. GeoNames reads 381 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: al-H̱arţūm al-Khartum Kharţūm Khartum Jartum الخرطوم.

Ground within 5 km

374 m – 387 m

Mean 383 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 13 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

3rd of 3

among the towns of Khartoum, and 80th of 102 in Sudan.

Nearest town

5 km to the NE, at 385 m, 1 m higher.

Cross-section through Khartoum

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Khartoum; the vertical scale is the same on both.

412352WE28.2 km
West to east: from 390 m at 14 km west to 387 m at 14 km east.
412352NS28.2 km
North to south: from 381 m at 14 km north to 386 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 59 km around Khartoum, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 59 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 Khartoum

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
al-H̱arţūm Bah̨rī 5 kmNE 385 m (1,263 ft) +1 m
Umm Durmān 12 kmNW 392 m (1,286 ft) +8 m

Where Khartoum is

Latitude 15.550101, longitude 32.532241. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Khartoum elevation: 384 m (1,260 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 Khartoum'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 381 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.