Elevation of ar-Riyād̨, Kafr el Sheikh, Egypt

ar-Riyād̨, Kafr el Sheikh, Egypt is 9 m (30 ft) above sea level.

ar-Riyād̨'s height from sea level is 9 metres, or 30 feet. GeoNames reads 11 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: الرياض.

Ground within 5 km

7 m – 12 m

Mean 9 m across the 9.5 km square centred on the town, 5 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 10

among the towns of Kafr el Sheikh, and 151st of 207 in Egypt.

Nearest town

5.5 km to the SE, at 12 m, 3 m higher.

Cross-section through ar-Riyād̨

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.8 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is ar-Riyād̨; the vertical scale is the same on both.

40-20WE26.8 km
West to east: from 13 m at 13 km west to 9 m at 13 km east.
40-20NS26.8 km
North to south: from 7 m at 13 km north to 12 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 56 km around ar-Riyād̨, 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 ar-Riyād̨

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
El Qiniat (Sharkia) 5.5 kmSE 12 m (39 ft) +3 m
Meet Ghamr (ad-Daqahlīyah) 9.5 kmNW 9 m (30 ft) same
El Zagazig (Sharkia) 11.5 kmSE 15 m (49 ft) +6 m
Diyarb Najm (Sharkia) 13.1 kmN 9 m (30 ft) same
Meniat el Kamh (Sharkia) 15.7 kmSW 16 m (52 ft) +7 m

Where ar-Riyād̨ is

Latitude 30.64, longitude 31.41. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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ar-Riyād̨ elevation: 9 m (30 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 ar-Riyād̨'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.