Elevation of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

Bulawayo, Zimbabwe is 1,357 m (4,452 ft) above sea level.

Bulawayo's height from sea level is 1,357 metres, or 4,452 feet. GeoNames reads 1,348 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1,358 m.

Also written: Buluayo Bhuruwayo.

Ground within 5 km

1,323 m – 1,435 m

Mean 1,368 m across the 9.9 km square centred on the town, 112 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

26th of 91

among the towns of Zimbabwe with a reading.

Nearest town

Esigodine

39.6 km to the E, at 1,169 m, 188 m lower.

Cross-section through Bulawayo

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Bulawayo; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,320 m at 14 km west to 1,365 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 1,276 m at 14 km north to 1,443 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 58 km around Bulawayo, 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.

Towns near Bulawayo

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Esigodine (Matabeleland South)	39.6 km	E	1,169 m (3,835 ft)	−188 m

Peaks and passes near Bulawayo

Umzingwane, hill at 1,437 m (4,715 ft), 24.4 km to the SE — 80 m above the town.
Intabayezinduna, hill at 1,413 m (4,636 ft), 17.8 km to the NE — 56 m above the town.
Emnyama, hill at 1,367 m (4,485 ft), 21.9 km to the NW — 10 m above the town.

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

Where Bulawayo is

Latitude -20.17219, longitude 28.58116. 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 Bulawayo'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 1,348 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.