Elevation of Medea, Algeria

Medea, Algeria is 967 m (3,173 ft) above sea level.

Medea's height from sea level is 967 metres, or 3,173 feet. GeoNames reads 910 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 910 m.

Also written: al-Midyah Lemdiyya Médéa المدية.

Ground within 5 km

477 m – 1,055 m

Mean 777 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 578 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

5th of 23

among the towns of Medea, and 111th of 707 in Algeria.

Nearest town

Ouzera

0 km to the N, at 967 m, the same elevation.

Cross-section through Medea

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Medea; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 464 m at 13 km west to 758 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 790 m at 13 km north to 633 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around Medea, 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 Medea

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Ouzera	0 km	N	967 m (3,173 ft)	same
Benchicao	11.4 km	SE	1,006 m (3,301 ft)	+39 m
Oued Harbil	11.5 km	W	462 m (1,516 ft)	−505 m
Ouled Brahim	16.8 km	E	1,057 m (3,468 ft)	+90 m
Ouled Bouachra	18.9 km	S	562 m (1,844 ft)	−405 m

Peaks and passes near Medea

Gaadet Tougaz, peak at 1,267 m (4,157 ft), 14.4 km to the SE — 300 m above the town.
Djebel Mongorno, peak at 1,168 m (3,832 ft), 23.1 km to the S — 201 m above the town.
Draa el Khârchef, hill at 1,159 m (3,802 ft), 18.6 km to the SE — 192 m above the town.

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

Where Medea is

Latitude 36.2666667, longitude 2.75. 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 Medea'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 910 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.