Elevation of Bahir Dar, Amhara, Ethiopia

Bahir Dar, Amhara, Ethiopia is 1,786 m (5,860 ft) above sea level.

Bahir Dar's height from sea level is 1,786 metres, or 5,860 feet. GeoNames reads 1,799 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1,800 m.

Also written: Bahr Dar Bahrdahr Giyorgis.

Ground within 5 km

1,786 m – 1,882 m

Mean 1,802 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 96 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

114th of 143

among the towns of Amhara, and 412th of 645 in Ethiopia.

Nearest town

Zege

12.8 km to the NW, at 1,800 m, 14 m higher.

Cross-section through Bahir Dar

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Bahir Dar; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,846 m at 14 km west to 1,793 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 1,786 m at 14 km north to 1,815 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Bahir Dar, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 60 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 Bahir Dar

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Zege	12.8 km	NW	1,800 m (5,906 ft)	+14 m
Meshenti	17.7 km	SW	1,956 m (6,417 ft)	+170 m
Tis Abay	25.4 km	SE	1,645 m (5,397 ft)	−141 m
Hamusit	28.5 km	NE	1,946 m (6,385 ft)	+160 m
Dek	37.2 km	N	1,809 m (5,935 ft)	+23 m

Where Bahir Dar is

Latitude 11.6, longitude 37.3833333. 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 Bahir Dar'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 1,799 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.