Elevation of al-H̨işn, Abyan, Yemen

al-H̨işn, Abyan, Yemen is 121 m (397 ft) above sea level.

al-H̨işn's height from sea level is 121 metres, or 397 feet. GeoNames reads 120 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: الحصن.

Ground within 5 km

81 m – 231 m

Mean 121 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 150 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

9th of 16

among the towns of Abyan, and 278th of 366 in Yemen.

Nearest town

Bātīs

5.2 km to the N, at 161 m, 40 m higher.

Cross-section through al-H̨işn

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is al-H̨işn; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 178 m at 14 km west to 137 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 581 m at 14 km north to 47 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around al-H̨işn, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 60 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 al-H̨işn

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Bātīs	5.2 km	N	161 m (528 ft)	+40 m
Ad Dirjāj	6 km	SE	89 m (292 ft)	−32 m
Ja'ār	7.9 km	S	67 m (220 ft)	−54 m
al-Maẖzan	11.8 km	S	46 m (151 ft)	−75 m
Mas'ūd (Amānah al-'Āşmah)	17.5 km	N	1,033 m (3,389 ft)	+912 m

Peaks and passes near al-H̨işn

Jabal Mas‘ūd, peak at 1,350 m (4,429 ft), 17.5 km to the N — 1,229 m above the town.
Jabal Hārith, peak at 1,341 m (4,400 ft), 20.7 km to the NW — 1,220 m above the town.
Jabal Ruşayfah, peak at 900 m (2,953 ft), 20.2 km to the NE — 779 m above the town.

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

Where al-H̨işn is

Latitude 13.2931144, longitude 45.2958666. 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 al-H̨işn'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 120 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.