Elevation of El Faiyum, Egypt

El Faiyum, Egypt is 28 m (92 ft) above sea level.

El Faiyum's height from sea level is 28 metres, or 92 feet. GeoNames reads 29 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 29 m.

Also written: al-Fayyūm Faiyum Faiyûm El Fayyum الفيوم.

Ground within 5 km

15 m – 28 m

Mean 21 m across the 9.6 km square centred on the town, 13 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 6

among the towns of El Faiyum, and 78th of 207 in Egypt.

Nearest town

7.6 km to the E, at 23 m, 5 m lower.

Cross-section through El Faiyum

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is El Faiyum; the vertical scale is the same on both.

39-22WE26.9 km
West to east: from 16 m at 13 km west to 28 m at 13 km east.
39-22NS26.9 km
North to south: from -11 m at 13 km north to 13 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 56 km around El Faiyum, 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 El Faiyum

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Yūsuf as-Siddīq 7.6 kmE 23 m (75 ft) −5 m
Etsa 9.1 kmSW 16 m (52 ft) −12 m
Sanoores 11.4 kmN 11 m (36 ft) −17 m
Ebshowai 16.5 kmW 4 m (13 ft) −24 m
Tamia 22.3 kmNE -5 m (-16 ft) −33 m

Where El Faiyum is

Latitude 29.3073424, longitude 30.840399. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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El Faiyum elevation: 28 m (92 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 El Faiyum'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 29 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.