Elevation of al-Hajar al-Aswad, Damascus, Syria

al-Hajar al-Aswad, Damascus, Syria is 679 m (2,228 ft) above sea level.

al-Hajar al-Aswad's height from sea level is 679 metres, or 2,228 feet. GeoNames reads 676 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 668 m.

Also written: Hajar Aswad الحجر الأسود.

Ground within 5 km

654 m – 717 m

Mean 676 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 63 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

19th of 20

among the towns of Damascus, and 24th of 106 in Syria.

Nearest town

Jaramānā

4.9 km to the NE, at 665 m, 14 m lower.

Cross-section through al-Hajar al-Aswad

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 al-Hajar al-Aswad; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 782 m at 13 km west to 634 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 912 m at 13 km north to 821 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around al-Hajar al-Aswad, 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-Hajar al-Aswad

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Jaramānā	4.9 km	NE	665 m (2,182 ft)	−14 m
Damascus	6.2 km	N	693 m (2,274 ft)	+14 m
Dūmā	6.2 km	N	693 m (2,274 ft)	+14 m
Dārayyā	7.9 km	W	770 m (2,526 ft)	+91 m
Şumayr	9.5 km	NW	753 m (2,470 ft)	+74 m

Where al-Hajar al-Aswad is

Latitude 33.4644365, longitude 36.3023941. 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-Hajar al-Aswad'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 676 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.