Elevation of Bale, Southern, Ethiopia

Bale, Southern, Ethiopia is 2,348 m (7,703 ft) above sea level.

Bale's height from sea level is 2,348 metres, or 7,703 feet. GeoNames reads 2,308 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

1,198 m – 2,376 m

Mean 1,970 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 1,178 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

12th of 100

among the towns of Southern, and 171st of 645 in Ethiopia.

Nearest town

30.6 km to the NE, at 1,933 m, 415 m lower.

Cross-section through Bale

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Bale; the vertical scale is the same on both.

2,502683WE28.7 km
West to east: from 1,231 m at 14 km west to 1,740 m at 14 km east.
2,502683NS28.7 km
North to south: from 1,628 m at 14 km north to 982 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Bale, 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 Bale

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Waka 30.6 kmNE 1,933 m (6,342 ft) −415 m
Ameya 39.4 kmNW 1,572 m (5,157 ft) −776 m

Where Bale is

Latitude 6.883333, longitude 36.966667. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Bale elevation: 2,348 m (7,703 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 Bale'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 2,308 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.