Elevation of Bechar, Algeria

Bechar, Algeria is 782 m (2,566 ft) above sea level.

Bechar's height from sea level is 782 metres, or 2,566 feet. GeoNames reads 780 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 747 m.

Also written: Baššar Béchar Colomb-Béchar بشار.

Ground within 5 km

750 m – 820 m

Mean 789 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 70 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 13

among the towns of Bechar, and 200th of 707 in Algeria.

Nearest town

20.1 km to the W, at 748 m, 34 m lower.

Cross-section through Bechar

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Bechar; the vertical scale is the same on both.

937738WE26.6 km
West to east: from 819 m at 13 km west to 923 m at 13 km east.
937738NS26.6 km
North to south: from 829 m at 13 km north to 877 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 56 km around Bechar, 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 Bechar

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Kenadsa 20.1 kmW 748 m (2,454 ft) −34 m

Where Bechar is

Latitude 31.608219, longitude -2.220005. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Bechar elevation: 782 m (2,566 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 Bechar'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 780 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.