Elevation of Chanika, Tanga, Tanzania

Chanika, Tanga, Tanzania is 686 m (2,251 ft) above sea level.

Chanika's height from sea level is 686 metres, or 2,251 feet. GeoNames reads 673 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

593 m – 889 m

Mean 701 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 296 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

6th of 10

among the towns of Tanga, and 391st of 482 in Tanzania.

Cross-section through Chanika

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 Chanika; the vertical scale is the same on both.

761565WE28.7 km
West to east: from 713 m at 14 km west to 618 m at 14 km east.
761565NS28.7 km
North to south: from 674 m at 14 km north to 615 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Chanika, 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.

Where Chanika is

Latitude -5.42, longitude 38.02. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Chanika elevation: 686 m (2,251 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 Chanika'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 673 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.