Elevation of Kyela, Mbeya, Tanzania

Kyela, Mbeya, Tanzania is 503 m (1,650 ft) above sea level.

Kyela's height from sea level is 503 metres, or 1,650 feet. GeoNames reads 498 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Kyela Mjini.

Ground within 5 km

485 m – 519 m

Mean 499 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 34 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

20th of 20

among the towns of Mbeya, and 403rd of 482 in Tanzania.

Nearest town

36.3 km to the NW, at 1,256 m, 753 m higher.

Cross-section through Kyela

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Kyela; the vertical scale is the same on both.

548470WE28.6 km
West to east: from 529 m at 14 km west to 476 m at 14 km east.
548470NS28.6 km
North to south: from 535 m at 14 km north to 524 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Kyela, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 60 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 Kyela

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Mpuguso 36.3 kmNW 1,256 m (4,121 ft) +753 m

Where Kyela is

Latitude -9.58, longitude 33.85. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Kyela elevation: 503 m (1,650 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 Kyela'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 498 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.