Elevation of Salamīyah, H̨amāh, Syria

Salamīyah, H̨amāh, Syria is 460 m (1,509 ft) above sea level.

Salamīyah's height from sea level is 460 metres, or 1,509 feet. GeoNames reads 461 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 475 m.

Also written: سلمية.

Ground within 5 km

437 m – 495 m

Mean 462 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 58 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 9

among the towns of H̨amāh, and 53rd of 106 in Syria.

Nearest town

21.9 km to the S, at 607 m, 147 m higher.

Cross-section through Salamīyah

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Salamīyah; the vertical scale is the same on both.

632360WE26.2 km
West to east: from 379 m at 13 km west to 540 m at 13 km east.
632360NS26.2 km
North to south: from 558 m at 13 km north to 521 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 55 km around Salamīyah, 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 Salamīyah

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
al-Muẖarram (H̨imş) 21.9 kmS 607 m (1,991 ft) +147 m
H̨amāh 30.7 kmNW 280 m (919 ft) −180 m
ar-Rastan (H̨imş) 30.9 kmW 428 m (1,404 ft) −32 m
Talbīsah (H̨imş) 34.2 kmSW 457 m (1,499 ft) −3 m

Where Salamīyah is

Latitude 35.0118, longitude 37.0525. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Salamīyah elevation: 460 m (1,509 ft) above sea level

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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 Salamīyah'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 461 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.