Elevation of Damascus, Syria

Damascus, Syria is 693 m (2,274 ft) above sea level.

Damascus's height from sea level is 693 metres, or 2,274 feet. GeoNames reads 701 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 680 m.

Also written: Dimašq Dimashq Damas Damaskus Damasco Şam aš-Šām Ash Sham Esh Sham دمشق.

Ground within 5 km

662 m – 1,058 m

Mean 743 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 396 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

17th of 20

among the towns of Damascus, and 22nd of 106 in Syria.

Nearest town

Dūmā

0 km to the N, at 693 m, the same elevation.

Cross-section through Damascus

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Damascus; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,057 m at 13 km west to 632 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 1,236 m at 13 km north to 774 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around Damascus, 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 Damascus

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Dūmā	0 km	N	693 m (2,274 ft)	same
'Irbīn	4.4 km	NE	697 m (2,287 ft)	+4 m
Jaramānā	5.2 km	SE	665 m (2,182 ft)	−28 m
al-Hajar al-Aswad	6.2 km	S	679 m (2,228 ft)	−14 m
H̨arastā al-Baş	7.2 km	NE	696 m (2,283 ft)	+3 m

Peaks and passes near Damascus

Jabal el Maazar, peak at 1,635 m (5,364 ft), 24.8 km to the W — 942 m above the town.
Ed Dallafé, peak at 1,431 m (4,695 ft), 24.5 km to the W — 738 m above the town.

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Damascus is

Latitude 33.5192989, longitude 36.31345. 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 Damascus'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 701 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.