Elevation of Harare, Zimbabwe

Harare, Zimbabwe is 1,485 m (4,872 ft) above sea level.

Harare's height from sea level is 1,485 metres, or 4,872 feet. GeoNames reads 1,494 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1,492 m to 1,494 m.

Also written: Salisbury.

Ground within 5 km

1,446 m – 1,546 m

Mean 1,488 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 100 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 3

among the towns of Harare, and 9th of 91 in Zimbabwe.

Nearest town

Epworth

13.2 km to the SE, at 1,519 m, 34 m higher.

Cross-section through Harare

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Harare; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,437 m at 14 km west to 1,583 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 1,529 m at 14 km north to 1,452 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 59 km around Harare, 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 Harare

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Epworth	13.2 km	SE	1,519 m (4,984 ft)	+34 m
Chitungwiza	19 km	S	1,440 m (4,724 ft)	−45 m
Mazowe (Mashonaland Central)	36.8 km	N	1,261 m (4,137 ft)	−224 m

Peaks and passes near Harare

Gun Hill, hill at 1,540 m (5,052 ft), 4.5 km to the NE — 55 m above the town.
The Kopje, hill at 1,536 m (5,039 ft), 1.6 km to the SW — 51 m above the town.
Alpes, hill at 1,532 m (5,026 ft), 24.8 km to the N — 47 m above the town.

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

Where Harare is

Latitude -17.82922, longitude 31.053961. 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 Harare'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 1,494 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.