Elevation of We'a, Djibouti

We'a, Djibouti is 460 m (1,509 ft) above sea level.

We'a's height from sea level is 460 metres, or 1,509 feet. GeoNames reads 426 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 455 m.

Ground within 5 km

279 m – 714 m

Mean 488 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 435 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 3

among the towns of Djibouti, and 5th of 12 in Djibouti.

Nearest town

2.5 km to the NW, at 700 m, 240 m higher.

Cross-section through We'a

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is We'a; the vertical scale is the same on both.

796-59WE28.5 km
West to east: from 562 m at 14 km west to 272 m at 14 km east.
796-59NS28.5 km
North to south: from 0 m at 14 km north to 737 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around We'a, 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 We'a

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Arta 2.5 kmNW 700 m (2,297 ft) +240 m
Holhol (Ali Sabieh) 23.3 kmS 429 m (1,407 ft) −31 m
Tadjoura (Tadjoura) 32.2 kmN 6 m (20 ft) −454 m
Djibouti 32.9 kmE 6 m (20 ft) −454 m

Peaks and passes near We'a

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

Where We'a is

Latitude 11.5030556, longitude 42.8552778. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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We'a elevation: 460 m (1,509 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 We'a'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 426 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.