Elevation of Ankara, Turkey

Ankara, Turkey is 877 m (2,877 ft) above sea level.

Ankara's height from sea level is 877 metres, or 2,877 feet. GeoNames reads 874 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 938 m.

Also written: Angora Enqere.

Ground within 5 km

840 m – 1,094 m

Mean 930 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 254 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

21st of 26

among the towns of Ankara, and 290th of 997 in Turkey.

Nearest town

Bağlum

12.5 km to the N, at 1,128 m, 251 m higher.

Cross-section through Ankara

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Ankara; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 841 m at 13 km west to 1,000 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 1,185 m at 13 km north to 1,110 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 53 km around Ankara, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 53 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 Ankara

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Bağlum	12.5 km	N	1,128 m (3,701 ft)	+251 m
Pursaklar	14.7 km	N	1,079 m (3,540 ft)	+202 m
Kutludüğün	15.9 km	E	1,077 m (3,533 ft)	+200 m
Lalahan	23.1 km	E	1,110 m (3,642 ft)	+233 m
Esenboğa	23.4 km	NE	947 m (3,107 ft)	+70 m

Peaks and passes near Ankara

Kalbur Tepesi, peak at 1,561 m (5,121 ft), 17.4 km to the S — 684 m above the town.
Keklikdoruğu Tepe, hill at 1,484 m (4,869 ft), 21.7 km to the NW — 607 m above the town.
Hüseyingazi Tepesi, peak at 1,415 m (4,642 ft), 9.6 km to the E — 538 m above the town.

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

Where Ankara is

Latitude 39.92077, longitude 32.85411. 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 Ankara'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 874 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.