Elevation of Moshi, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Moshi, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania is 850 m (2,789 ft) above sea level.

Moshi's height from sea level is 850 metres, or 2,789 feet. GeoNames reads 854 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 830 m.

Ground within 5 km

763 m – 1,181 m

Mean 894 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 418 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

7th of 16

among the towns of Kilimanjaro, and 363rd of 482 in Tanzania.

Nearest town

17.2 km to the W, at 1,106 m, 256 m higher.

Cross-section through Moshi

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Moshi; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,879642WE28.7 km
West to east: from 945 m at 14 km west to 1,287 m at 14 km east.
1,879642NS28.7 km
North to south: from 1,793 m at 14 km north to 728 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Moshi, 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 Moshi

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Mudio 17.2 kmW 1,106 m (3,629 ft) +256 m
Kahe 20.6 kmSE 711 m (2,333 ft) −139 m
Ubetu 22.9 kmSE 702 m (2,303 ft) −148 m
Himo 23.4 kmE 862 m (2,828 ft) +12 m
Hai 28.8 kmNW 1,951 m (6,401 ft) +1,101 m

Where Moshi is

Latitude -3.338543, longitude 37.34296. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Moshi elevation: 850 m (2,789 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 Moshi'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 854 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.