Elevation of Dikhil, Djibouti

Dikhil, Djibouti is 481 m (1,578 ft) above sea level.

Dikhil's height from sea level is 481 metres, or 1,578 feet. GeoNames reads 479 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 507 m.

Ground within 5 km

416 m – 642 m

Mean 526 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 226 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 3

among the towns of Dikhil, and 4th of 12 in Djibouti.

Nearest town

29.4 km to the E, at 807 m, 326 m higher.

Cross-section through Dikhil

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 Dikhil; the vertical scale is the same on both.

714371WE28.5 km
West to east: from 404 m at 14 km west to 690 m at 14 km east.
714371NS28.5 km
North to south: from 559 m at 14 km north to 533 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Dikhil, 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 Dikhil

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Dewele (Ethiopia) 29.4 kmE 807 m (2,648 ft) +326 m
Airoli 31.5 kmW 350 m (1,148 ft) −131 m
Ali Sabieh (Ali Sabieh) 37.4 kmE 711 m (2,333 ft) +230 m

Peaks and passes near Dikhil

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

Where Dikhil is

Latitude 11.10421, longitude 42.37244. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Dikhil elevation: 481 m (1,578 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 Dikhil'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 479 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.