Elevation of Aşgabat, Turkmenistan

Aşgabat, Turkmenistan is 216 m (709 ft) above sea level.

Aşgabat's height from sea level is 216 metres, or 709 feet. GeoNames reads 219 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 219 m.

Also written: Ashgabat Aşkabat Aşhabad Ašhabat Ashgabad Ašchabad Ashhabat Aşxebad Eşqabad.

Ground within 5 km

189 m – 349 m

Mean 228 m across the 9.1 km square centred on the town, 160 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

10th of 32

among the towns of Turkmenistan with a reading.

Nearest town

11.4 km to the SE, at 231 m, 15 m higher.

Cross-section through Aşgabat

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Aşgabat; the vertical scale is the same on both.

521136WE25.7 km
West to east: from 349 m at 13 km west to 200 m at 13 km east.
521136NS25.7 km
North to south: from 163 m at 13 km north to 494 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 54 km around Aşgabat, 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 Aşgabat

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Annau (Ahal) 11.4 kmSE 231 m (758 ft) +15 m
Büzmeyin (Ahal) 20 kmNW 234 m (768 ft) +18 m

Where Aşgabat is

Latitude 37.950197, longitude 58.380223. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Aşgabat elevation: 216 m (709 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 Aşgabat'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 219 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.