Elevation of Sono, Kossi, Burkina Faso

Sono, Kossi, Burkina Faso is 257 m (843 ft) above sea level.

Sono's height from sea level is 257 metres, or 843 feet. GeoNames reads 260 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

251 m – 260 m

Mean 256 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 9 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

10th of 10

among the towns of Kossi, and 552nd of 585 in Burkina Faso.

Nearest town

28.3 km to the N, at 256 m, 1 m lower.

Cross-section through Sono

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Sono; the vertical scale is the same on both.

297236WE28.4 km
West to east: from 258 m at 14 km west to 281 m at 14 km east.
297236NS28.4 km
North to south: from 255 m at 14 km north to 259 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Sono, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 60 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 Sono

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Débé (Sourou) 28.3 kmN 256 m (840 ft) −1 m
Gassan (Nayala) 30.4 kmE 263 m (863 ft) +6 m
Niassan (Sourou) 30.5 kmN 257 m (843 ft) same
Douroula (Mouhoun) 34.1 kmSE 272 m (892 ft) +15 m
Passakongo (Mouhoun) 34.9 kmS 304 m (997 ft) +47 m

Where Sono is

Latitude 12.83, longitude -3.48. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Sono elevation: 257 m (843 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 Sono'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 260 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.