Elevation of El Kala, El Tarf, Algeria

El Kala, El Tarf, Algeria is 0 m (0 ft) above sea level.

El Kala's height from sea level is 0 metres, or 0 feet. GeoNames reads 21 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 21 m.

Also written: al-Qālah القالة.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 162 m

Mean 31 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 162 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

12th of 12

among the towns of El Tarf, and 704th of 707 in Algeria.

Nearest town

19 km to the SW, at 24 m, 24 m higher.

Cross-section through El Kala

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is El Kala; the vertical scale is the same on both.

226-17WE25.9 km
West to east: from 0 m at 13 km west to 106 m at 13 km east.
226-17NS25.9 km
North to south: from 0 m at 13 km north to 109 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 54 km around El Kala, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 54 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 El Kala

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
El Tarf 19 kmSW 24 m (79 ft) +24 m
'Ayn Darāhim (Tunisia) 25.2 kmSE 711 m (2,333 ft) +711 m
Bouteldja 25.8 kmSW 23 m (75 ft) +23 m
Ţabarqah (Tunisia) 27.5 kmE 41 m (135 ft) +41 m
Zitouna 28.5 kmSW 405 m (1,329 ft) +405 m

Peaks and passes near El Kala

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

Where El Kala is

Latitude 36.9, longitude 8.45. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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El Kala elevation: 0 m (0 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 El Kala'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 21 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.