Elevation of as-Suwaydā, Syria

as-Suwaydā, Syria is 1,012 m (3,320 ft) above sea level.

as-Suwaydā's height from sea level is 1,012 metres, or 3,320 feet. GeoNames reads 1,068 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1,025 m.

Also written: as-Suwayda El Suweida Soueida السويداء.

Ground within 5 km

857 m – 1,248 m

Mean 1,020 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 391 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 3

among the towns of as-Suwaydā, and 7th of 106 in Syria.

Nearest town

17.5 km to the N, at 1,079 m, 67 m higher.

Cross-section through as-Suwaydā

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is as-Suwaydā; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,683693WE26.5 km
West to east: from 762 m at 13 km west to 1,614 m at 13 km east.
1,683693NS26.5 km
North to south: from 890 m at 13 km north to 1,019 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 56 km around as-Suwaydā, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 56 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 as-Suwaydā

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Šahabā 17.5 kmN 1,079 m (3,540 ft) +67 m
Şalaẖid 18.4 kmN 883 m (2,897 ft) −129 m
Buşr-aš-Šām (Dar'ā) 22.2 kmS 840 m (2,756 ft) −172 m
al-H̨rāk (Dar'ā) 25.3 kmW 632 m (2,073 ft) −380 m
Izra' (Dar'ā) 35 kmNW 572 m (1,877 ft) −440 m

Where as-Suwaydā is

Latitude 32.706268, longitude 36.566071. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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as-Suwaydā elevation: 1,012 m (3,320 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 as-Suwaydā'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 1,068 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.