Elevation of Port Said, Egypt

Port Said, Egypt is 11 m (36 ft) above sea level.

Port Said's height from sea level is 11 metres, or 36 feet. GeoNames reads 16 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 6 m.

Also written: Būr Sa'īd Bur Said بور سعيد.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 14 m

Mean 2 m across the 9.5 km square centred on the town, 14 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

137th of 207

among the towns of Egypt with a reading.

Nearest town

28.4 km to the W, at 2 m, 9 m lower.

Cross-section through Port Said

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 Port Said; the vertical scale is the same on both.

37-23WE26.7 km
West to east: from 0 m at 13 km west to 0 m at 13 km east.
37-23NS26.7 km
North to south: from 0 m at 13 km north to 0 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 56 km around Port Said, 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 Port Said

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Mataria (ad-Daqahlīyah) 28.4 kmW 2 m (7 ft) −9 m
El Manzala (ad-Daqahlīyah) 33.9 kmW 1 m (3 ft) −10 m

Where Port Said is

Latitude 31.2631227, longitude 32.297722. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Port Said elevation: 11 m (36 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 Port Said'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 16 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.