Elevation of Ngorongoro, Arusha, Tanzania

Ngorongoro, Arusha, Tanzania is 2,357 m (7,733 ft) above sea level.

Ngorongoro's height from sea level is 2,357 metres, or 7,733 feet. GeoNames reads 2,377 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

1,730 m – 3,053 m

Mean 2,290 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 1,323 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 25

among the towns of Arusha, and 2nd of 482 in Tanzania.

Nearest town

18.3 km to the SE, at 1,495 m, 862 m lower.

Cross-section through Ngorongoro

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 Ngorongoro; the vertical scale is the same on both.

2,6321,671WE28.7 km
West to east: from 2,120 m at 14 km west to 2,019 m at 14 km east.
2,6321,671NS28.7 km
North to south: from 1,985 m at 14 km north to 1,874 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Ngorongoro, 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 Ngorongoro

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Oldeani 18.3 kmSE 1,495 m (4,905 ft) −862 m
Karatu 21.8 kmSE 1,525 m (5,003 ft) −832 m
Gongali 24.6 kmSE 1,492 m (4,895 ft) −865 m
Endulen 35.9 kmW 1,754 m (5,755 ft) −603 m

Where Ngorongoro is

Latitude -3.2415439, longitude 35.4877778. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Ngorongoro elevation: 2,357 m (7,733 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 Ngorongoro'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 2,377 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.