Elevation of Ghardaia, Ghardaïa, Algeria

Ghardaia, Ghardaïa, Algeria is 497 m (1,631 ft) above sea level.

Ghardaia's height from sea level is 497 metres, or 1,631 feet. GeoNames reads 503 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 572 m.

Also written: Ġardāyah Ghardaïa Gardaïa غرداية.

Ground within 5 km

464 m – 590 m

Mean 537 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 126 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

3rd of 8

among the towns of Ghardaïa, and 330th of 707 in Algeria.

Nearest town

Bounoura

0 km to the N, at 497 m, the same elevation.

Cross-section through Ghardaia

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Ghardaia; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 615 m at 13 km west to 473 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 573 m at 13 km north to 530 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 56 km around Ghardaia, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 56 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 Ghardaia

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Bounoura	0 km	N	497 m (1,631 ft)	same
El Atteuf	5 km	E	478 m (1,568 ft)	−19 m
Metlili	25.4 km	S	504 m (1,654 ft)	+7 m
Berriane	39.2 km	N	548 m (1,798 ft)	+51 m

Where Ghardaia is

Latitude 32.489059, longitude 3.678539. 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 Ghardaia'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 503 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.