Elevation of Qārah, Damascus, Syria

Qārah, Damascus, Syria is 1,256 m (4,121 ft) above sea level.

Qārah's height from sea level is 1,256 metres, or 4,121 feet. GeoNames reads 1,287 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1,280 m.

Also written: Qarah قارة.

Ground within 5 km

1,159 m – 1,398 m

Mean 1,261 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 239 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

3rd of 20

among the towns of Damascus, and 3rd of 106 in Syria.

Nearest town

Dayr 'Atiyah

6.7 km to the S, at 1,249 m, 7 m lower.

Cross-section through Qārah

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 Qārah; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,719 m at 13 km west to 1,166 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 1,080 m at 13 km north to 1,249 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around Qārah, 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 Qārah

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Dayr 'Atiyah	6.7 km	S	1,249 m (4,098 ft)	−7 m
an-Nabk	14.6 km	S	1,319 m (4,327 ft)	+63 m
Yabrūd	24.1 km	S	1,365 m (4,478 ft)	+109 m
Ārsāl (Lebanon)	30.9 km	W	1,412 m (4,633 ft)	+156 m
Ra's Ba'labakk (Lebanon)	33.1 km	W	995 m (3,264 ft)	−261 m

Peaks and passes near Qārah

Qornet Choaabet el Qalaa, peak at 2,388 m (7,835 ft), 20.5 km to the W — 1,132 m above the town.
Qornet el Hachichiyat, peak at 2,363 m (7,753 ft), 19.2 km to the W — 1,107 m above the town.
Râs el Ouichel, peak at 2,240 m (7,349 ft), 16 km to the W — 984 m above the town.

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

Where Qārah is

Latitude 34.1524873, longitude 36.7538005. 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 Qārah'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 1,287 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.