Elevation of ar-Ruh̨aybah, Damascus, Syria

ar-Ruh̨aybah, Damascus, Syria is 834 m (2,736 ft) above sea level.

ar-Ruh̨aybah's height from sea level is 834 metres, or 2,736 feet. GeoNames reads 833 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: ar-Ruhayba الرحيبة.

Ground within 5 km

779 m – 1,008 m

Mean 850 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 229 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

10th of 20

among the towns of Damascus, and 14th of 106 in Syria.

Nearest town

Mu'ad̨amiyat-aš-Šam

5.2 km to the W, at 878 m, 44 m higher.

Cross-section through ar-Ruh̨aybah

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 ar-Ruh̨aybah; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 964 m at 13 km west to 826 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 1,581 m at 13 km north to 650 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around ar-Ruh̨aybah, 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 ar-Ruh̨aybah

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Mu'ad̨amiyat-aš-Šam	5.2 km	W	878 m (2,881 ft)	+44 m
Jayrūd	8 km	NE	812 m (2,664 ft)	−22 m
al-Quţayfah	10.3 km	W	948 m (3,110 ft)	+114 m
Yabrūd	21.7 km	N	1,365 m (4,478 ft)	+531 m
an-Nabk	31.3 km	N	1,319 m (4,327 ft)	+485 m

Where ar-Ruh̨aybah is

Latitude 33.7443314, longitude 36.7011138. 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 ar-Ruh̨aybah'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 833 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.