Elevation of Šahabā, as-Suwaydā, Syria

Šahabā, as-Suwaydā, Syria is 1,079 m (3,540 ft) above sea level.

Šahabā's height from sea level is 1,079 metres, or 3,540 feet. GeoNames reads 1,085 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1,082 m.

Also written: Shahaba شهبا.

Ground within 5 km

881 m – 1,387 m

Mean 1,077 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 506 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 3

among the towns of as-Suwaydā, and 6th of 106 in Syria.

Nearest town

Şalaẖid

5.5 km to the W, at 883 m, 196 m lower.

Cross-section through Šahabā

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 Šahabā; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 831 m at 13 km west to 1,280 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 881 m at 13 km north to 1,361 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 56 km around Šahabā, 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 Šahabā

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Şalaẖid	5.5 km	W	883 m (2,897 ft)	−196 m
as-Suwaydā	17.5 km	S	1,012 m (3,320 ft)	−67 m
al-H̨rāk (Dar'ā)	32.7 km	W	632 m (2,073 ft)	−447 m
Izra' (Dar'ā)	37 km	W	572 m (1,877 ft)	−507 m
Buşr-aš-Šām (Dar'ā)	39.7 km	S	840 m (2,756 ft)	−239 m

Where Šahabā is

Latitude 32.8541667, longitude 36.6291667. 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 Šahabā'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 1,085 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.