Elevation of Luxor, Egypt

Luxor, Egypt is 84 m (276 ft) above sea level.

Luxor's height from sea level is 84 metres, or 276 feet. GeoNames reads 89 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 89 m.

Also written: al-Uqşur al-Uqsur Luxer Louxor الأقصر.

Ground within 5 km

72 m – 189 m

Mean 84 m across the 9.7 km square centred on the town, 117 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

20th of 207

among the towns of Egypt with a reading.

Nearest town

5.8 km to the W, at 97 m, 13 m higher.

Cross-section through Luxor

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Luxor; the vertical scale is the same on both.

16964WE27.3 km
West to east: from 127 m at 14 km west to 115 m at 14 km east.
16964NS27.3 km
North to south: from 145 m at 14 km north to 161 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 57 km around Luxor, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 57 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 Luxor

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Armant (Qena) 5.8 kmW 97 m (318 ft) +13 m
Naqādah (Qena) 23.5 kmN 77 m (253 ft) −7 m
Koos (Qena) 26.1 kmNE 80 m (262 ft) −4 m
Qifţ (Qena) 36.9 kmNE 75 m (246 ft) −9 m

Where Luxor is

Latitude 25.7029521, longitude 32.6446847. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Luxor elevation: 84 m (276 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 Luxor'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 89 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.