Elevation of Ţarţūs, Syria

Ţarţūs, Syria is 20 m (66 ft) above sea level.

Ţarţūs's height from sea level is 20 metres, or 66 feet. GeoNames reads 20 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 0 m.

Also written: Tartus Tartoûs Tartouss طرطوس.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 175 m

Mean 30 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 175 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

3rd of 4

among the towns of Ţarţūs, and 104th of 106 in Syria.

Nearest town

23 km to the E, at 316 m, 296 m higher.

Cross-section through Ţarţūs

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Ţarţūs; the vertical scale is the same on both.

305-23WE26.2 km
West to east: from 0 m at 13 km west to 282 m at 13 km east.
305-23NS26.2 km
North to south: from 0 m at 13 km north to 0 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 55 km around Ţarţūs, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 55 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 Ţarţūs

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Şāfītā 23 kmE 316 m (1,037 ft) +296 m
Duraykīš 23 kmE 439 m (1,440 ft) +419 m
Bāniyās 33.6 kmN 17 m (56 ft) −3 m

Where Ţarţūs is

Latitude 34.8833333, longitude 35.8833333. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Ţarţūs elevation: 20 m (66 ft) above sea level

A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Ţarţūs'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 20 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.