Elevation of Arzew, Oran, Algeria

Arzew, Oran, Algeria is 5 m (16 ft) above sea level.

Arzew's height from sea level is 5 metres, or 16 feet. GeoNames reads 10 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 72 m.

Also written: Arzū Arziw Arzeu Arsenaria أرزيو.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 187 m

Mean 52 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 187 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

18th of 20

among the towns of Oran, and 699th of 707 in Algeria.

Nearest town

4.5 km to the SE, at 3 m, 2 m lower.

Cross-section through Arzew

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

509-38WE26 km
West to east: from 454 m at 13 km west to 0 m at 13 km east.
509-38NS26 km
North to south: from 0 m at 13 km north to 117 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 55 km around Arzew, 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 Arzew

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Ain Biya 4.5 kmSE 3 m (10 ft) −2 m
Hassi Mefsoukh 4.8 kmSW 104 m (341 ft) +99 m
Bethioua 5.5 kmSE 0 m (0 ft) −5 m
Gdyel 12.3 kmSW 137 m (449 ft) +132 m
Benfreha 19.7 kmSW 98 m (322 ft) +93 m

Where Arzew is

Latitude 35.85, longitude -0.3166667. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Arzew elevation: 5 m (16 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 Arzew'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 10 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.