Elevation of Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Dubai, United Arab Emirates is 4 m (13 ft) above sea level.

Dubai's height from sea level is 4 metres, or 13 feet. Wikidata records 0 m.

Also written: Dubayy دبى.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 11 m

Mean 3 m across the 9.7 km square centred on the town, 11 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

5th of 9

among the towns of United Arab Emirates with a reading.

Nearest town

13.5 km to the NE, at 2 m, 2 m lower.

Cross-section through Dubai

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Dubai; the vertical scale is the same on both.

39-21WE27.4 km
West to east: from 0 m at 14 km west to 18 m at 14 km east.
39-21NS27.4 km
North to south: from 0 m at 14 km north to 10 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 57 km around Dubai, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 57 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 Dubai

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Sharjah (Sharjah) 13.5 kmNE 2 m (7 ft) −2 m
'Ajmān ('Ajmān) 23.8 kmNE 5 m (16 ft) +1 m
Umm al-Qaywayn (Umm al-Qaywayn) 37.9 kmNE 2 m (7 ft) −2 m

Where Dubai is

Latitude 25.2644444, longitude 55.3116667. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Dubai elevation: 4 m (13 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 Dubai'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.