Elevation of al-Kawd, Abyan, Yemen

al-Kawd, Abyan, Yemen is 13 m (43 ft) above sea level.

al-Kawd's height from sea level is 13 metres, or 43 feet. GeoNames reads 12 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: الكود.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 30 m

Mean 10 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 30 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

15th of 16

among the towns of Abyan, and 344th of 366 in Yemen.

Nearest town

Zinjibār

4.7 km to the N, at 19 m, 6 m higher.

Cross-section through al-Kawd

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-Kawd; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 22 m at 14 km west to 0 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 47 m at 14 km north to 0 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around al-Kawd, 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-Kawd

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Zinjibār	4.7 km	N	19 m (62 ft)	+6 m
al-Maẖzan	12.3 km	NW	46 m (151 ft)	+33 m
Ja'ār	16.3 km	NW	67 m (220 ft)	+54 m
Ad Dirjāj	19.2 km	N	89 m (292 ft)	+76 m
al-H̨işn	23.9 km	N	121 m (397 ft)	+108 m

Peaks and passes near al-Kawd

Jabal al Aḩbūsh, hill at 180 m (591 ft), 22.5 km to the NW — 167 m above the town.
Jabal Khanfar, hill at 123 m (404 ft), 15.5 km to the N — 110 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-Kawd is

Latitude 13.0886111, longitude 45.3647222. 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-Kawd'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 12 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.