Elevation of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates is 12 m (39 ft) above sea level.

Abu Dhabi's height from sea level is 12 metres, or 39 feet. Wikidata records 14 m.

Also written: Abū Z̨abī Abu Zabi Abu Zaby ابو ظبى.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 19 m

Mean 5 m across the 9.7 km square centred on the town, 19 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

3rd of 9

among the towns of United Arab Emirates with a reading.

Cross-section through Abu Dhabi

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Abu Dhabi; the vertical scale is the same on both.

40-21WE27.5 km
West to east: from 0 m at 14 km west to 1 m at 14 km east.
40-21NS27.5 km
North to south: from 0 m at 14 km north to 0 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 58 km around Abu Dhabi, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 58 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 Abu Dhabi is

Latitude 24.4666667, longitude 54.3666667. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Abu Dhabi elevation: 12 m (39 ft) above sea level

A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Abu Dhabi'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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.