Elevation of Kafr el Sheikh, Egypt

Kafr el Sheikh, Egypt is 8 m (26 ft) above sea level.

Kafr el Sheikh's height from sea level is 8 metres, or 26 feet. GeoNames reads 11 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 14 m.

Also written: Kafr-aš-Šayẖ Kafr-ash-Shaykh كفر الشيخ.

Ground within 5 km

4 m – 11 m

Mean 5 m across the 9.5 km square centred on the town, 7 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

3rd of 10

among the towns of Kafr el Sheikh, and 155th of 207 in Egypt.

Nearest town

Qullīn

10.6 km to the SW, at 8 m, the same elevation.

Cross-section through Kafr el Sheikh

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Kafr el Sheikh; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 4 m at 13 km west to 5 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 3 m at 13 km north to 6 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 56 km around Kafr el Sheikh, 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 Kafr el Sheikh

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Qullīn	10.6 km	SW	8 m (26 ft)	same
Kotoor (Gharbia)	14.5 km	S	7 m (23 ft)	−1 m
El Mahalla el Kubra (Gharbia)	20.1 km	SE	6 m (20 ft)	−2 m
Basyoon (Gharbia)	21.9 km	SW	8 m (26 ft)	same
Shabrakhit (Behera)	23.3 km	W	8 m (26 ft)	same

Where Kafr el Sheikh is

Latitude 31.1063198, longitude 30.9419751. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 Kafr el Sheikh'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 11 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.