Elevation of al-'Ulyā, Šabwah, Yemen

al-'Ulyā, Šabwah, Yemen is 1,129 m (3,704 ft) above sea level.

al-'Ulyā's height from sea level is 1,129 metres, or 3,704 feet. GeoNames reads 1,127 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1,717 m.

Also written: Bayh̨ān al-Qişāb العليا.

Ground within 5 km

1,110 m – 1,764 m

Mean 1,256 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 654 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

7th of 15

among the towns of Šabwah, and 170th of 366 in Yemen.

Nearest town

al-H̨arajah

7.6 km to the S, at 1,216 m, 87 m higher.

Cross-section through al-'Ulyā

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is al-'Ulyā; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,888 m at 14 km west to 1,151 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 1,129 m at 14 km north to 1,428 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 59 km around al-'Ulyā, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 59 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-'Ulyā

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
al-H̨arajah	7.6 km	S	1,216 m (3,990 ft)	+87 m
al-H̱uff (al-Bayda)	18.3 km	SW	1,348 m (4,423 ft)	+219 m
al-Wa'rah (ad-Dāli')	20.8 km	N	1,372 m (4,501 ft)	+243 m
An Nuqūb	22 km	N	1,052 m (3,451 ft)	−77 m
al-H̨imā (Amānah al-'Āşmah)	25 km	NE	1,040 m (3,412 ft)	−89 m

Peaks and passes near al-'Ulyā

‘Aqabat al Mablaqah, pass at 2 m (7 ft), 13.9 km to the NW.

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

Where al-'Ulyā is

Latitude 14.7976183, longitude 45.7189412. 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-'Ulyā'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 1,127 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.