Elevation of Biskra, Algeria

Biskra, Algeria is 113 m (371 ft) above sea level.

Biskra's height from sea level is 113 metres, or 371 feet. GeoNames reads 115 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 87 m.

Also written: Biskrah Beskra Biskara بسكرة.

Ground within 5 km

74 m – 197 m

Mean 118 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 123 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

11th of 18

among the towns of Biskra, and 554th of 707 in Algeria.

Nearest town

0 km to the N, at 113 m, the same elevation.

Cross-section through Biskra

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Biskra; the vertical scale is the same on both.

33722WE26.2 km
West to east: from 315 m at 13 km west to 132 m at 13 km east.
33722NS26.2 km
North to south: from 267 m at 13 km north to 44 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 55 km around Biskra, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 55 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 Biskra

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Chetma 0 kmN 113 m (371 ft) same
Branis 16.7 kmN 310 m (1,017 ft) +197 m
Oumache 17.3 kmS 49 m (161 ft) −64 m
Sidi Okba 18.8 kmSE 54 m (177 ft) −59 m
El Outaya 23.7 kmNW 263 m (863 ft) +150 m

Where Biskra is

Latitude 34.85, longitude 5.7333333. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Biskra elevation: 113 m (371 ft) above sea level

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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 Biskra'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 115 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.