Elevation of al-Quţayfah, Damascus, Syria

al-Quţayfah, Damascus, Syria is 948 m (3,110 ft) above sea level.

al-Quţayfah's height from sea level is 948 metres, or 3,110 feet. GeoNames reads 934 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 940 m.

Also written: Al-Kataifeh القطيفة.

Ground within 5 km

894 m – 1,380 m

Mean 1,027 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 486 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

7th of 20

among the towns of Damascus, and 9th of 106 in Syria.

Nearest town

Mu'ad̨amiyat-aš-Šam

5.1 km to the E, at 878 m, 70 m lower.

Cross-section through al-Quţayfah

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is al-Quţayfah; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,235 m at 13 km west to 822 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 1,623 m at 13 km north to 611 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around al-Quţayfah, 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 al-Quţayfah

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Mu'ad̨amiyat-aš-Šam	5.1 km	E	878 m (2,881 ft)	−70 m
ar-Ruh̨aybah	10.3 km	E	834 m (2,736 ft)	−114 m
Jayrūd	15.9 km	NE	812 m (2,664 ft)	−136 m
Yabrūd	24.3 km	NE	1,365 m (4,478 ft)	+417 m
H̨arastā al-Baş	28.6 km	SW	696 m (2,283 ft)	−252 m

Where al-Quţayfah is

Latitude 33.744271, longitude 36.5896815. 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 al-Quţayfah'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 934 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.