Elevation of Cairo, Egypt
Cairo, Egypt is 32 m (105 ft) above sea level.
Cairo's height from sea level is 32 metres, or 105 feet. GeoNames reads 23 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 23 m.
Also written: al-Qāhirah Kairo El Qahira Caire Le Caire-sur-Mer القاهرة.
Ground within 5 km
Mean 36 m across the 9.5 km square centred on the town, 173 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Cairo
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 Cairo; the vertical scale is the same on both.
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 Cairo
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arab ar Rashayida (Palestine) | 4 km | NE | 25 m (82 ft) | −7 m |
| Gizeh (Gizeh) | 4.4 km | NW | 25 m (82 ft) | −7 m |
| Imbābah (Gizeh) | 4.4 km | NW | 25 m (82 ft) | −7 m |
| Akkaba (Palestine) | 4.7 km | W | 28 m (92 ft) | −4 m |
| Shubra-El-Khema (al-Qalyūbiyah) | 9.1 km | N | 24 m (79 ft) | −8 m |
Where Cairo is
Latitude 30.04449, longitude 31.2356947. 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 Cairo'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 23 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.