Elevation of Qaţanā, Damascus, Syria

Qaţanā, Damascus, Syria is 879 m (2,884 ft) above sea level.

Qaţanā's height from sea level is 879 metres, or 2,884 feet. GeoNames reads 897 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 885 m.

Also written: قطنا.

Ground within 5 km

790 m – 1,142 m

Mean 929 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 352 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

8th of 20

among the towns of Damascus, and 11th of 106 in Syria.

Nearest town

Dārayyā

14.2 km to the NE, at 770 m, 109 m lower.

Cross-section through Qaţanā

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 Qaţanā; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,821 m at 13 km west to 712 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 1,071 m at 13 km north to 835 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around Qaţanā, 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 Qaţanā

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Dārayyā	14.2 km	NE	770 m (2,526 ft)	−109 m
al-Kiswah	17.4 km	SE	721 m (2,365 ft)	−158 m
Şumayr	17.7 km	NE	753 m (2,470 ft)	−126 m
al-Hajar al-Aswad	20.6 km	E	679 m (2,228 ft)	−200 m
Damascus	23.4 km	NE	693 m (2,274 ft)	−186 m

Peaks and passes near Qaţanā

Mount Hermon, peak at 2,814 m (9,232 ft), 21.1 km to the W — 1,935 m above the town.
Chaghour ed Dahab, peak at 2,578 m (8,458 ft), 18.7 km to the W — 1,699 m above the town.
Safhet el Mozblé, peak at 2,246 m (7,369 ft), 14.5 km to the W — 1,367 m above the town.

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

Where Qaţanā is

Latitude 33.4333333, longitude 36.0833333. 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 Qaţanā'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 897 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.