Elevation of Kariba, Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe

Kariba, Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe is 502 m (1,647 ft) above sea level.

Kariba's height from sea level is 502 metres, or 1,647 feet.

Ground within 5 km

435 m – 788 m

Mean 536 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 353 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

12th of 14

among the towns of Mashonaland West, and 86th of 91 in Zimbabwe.

Nearest town

Siavonga

14.4 km to the W, at 517 m, 15 m higher.

Cross-section through Kariba

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Kariba; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 564 m at 14 km west to 530 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 582 m at 14 km north to 487 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 59 km around Kariba, 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 Kariba

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Siavonga (Zambia)	14.4 km	W	517 m (1,696 ft)	+15 m

Peaks and passes near Kariba

Chiremgwe, hill at 806 m (2,644 ft), 10.1 km to the NE — 304 m above the town.

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

Where Kariba is

Latitude -16.5220465, longitude 28.8509415. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Kariba'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.