Elevation of Sīdī Bū Sa'īd, Tunis, Tunisia

Sīdī Bū Sa'īd, Tunis, Tunisia is 44 m (144 ft) above sea level.

Sīdī Bū Sa'īd's height from sea level is 44 metres, or 144 feet. GeoNames reads 69 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 98 m.

Also written: Sidi Bou Said سيدي بوسعيد.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 76 m

Mean 7 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 76 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 6

among the towns of Tunis, and 144th of 247 in Tunisia.

Nearest town

Carthago

1.1 km to the SW, at 41 m, 3 m lower.

Cross-section through Sīdī Bū Sa'īd

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Sīdī Bū Sa'īd; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 5 m at 13 km west to 0 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 0 m at 13 km north to 0 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 54 km around Sīdī Bū Sa'īd, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 54 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 Sīdī Bū Sa'īd

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Carthago	1.1 km	SW	41 m (135 ft)	−3 m
al-Marsā	1.6 km	NW	19 m (62 ft)	−25 m
H̨alq-al-Wādī	6.6 km	SW	2 m (7 ft)	−42 m
Rādis (Bin 'Arūs)	12.6 km	SW	0 m (0 ft)	−44 m
az-Zahrā' (Bin 'Arūs)	14.3 km	S	1 m (3 ft)	−43 m

Peaks and passes near Sīdī Bū Sa'īd

Jebel Srara, peak at 406 m (1,332 ft), 23.6 km to the S — 362 m above the town.
Hamada Majet, peak at 388 m (1,273 ft), 24.8 km to the S — 344 m above the town.
Jebel Gattouna, peak at 330 m (1,083 ft), 22.7 km to the S — 286 m above the town.

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Sīdī Bū Sa'īd is

Latitude 36.8698325, longitude 10.3413691. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 Sīdī Bū Sa'īd'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 69 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.