Elevation of Dirē Dawa, Diredawa, Ethiopia

Dirē Dawa, Diredawa, Ethiopia is 1,260 m (4,134 ft) above sea level.

Dirē Dawa's height from sea level is 1,260 metres, or 4,134 feet. GeoNames reads 1,204 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1,276 m.

Also written: Dire Dawa Diredaua Diredawa.

Ground within 5 km

1,117 m – 1,500 m

Mean 1,278 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 383 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

564th of 645

among the towns of Ethiopia with a reading.

Nearest town

Melka Jebdu

10 km to the W, at 1,126 m, 134 m lower.

Cross-section through Dirē Dawa

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Dirē Dawa; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,182 m at 14 km west to 1,585 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 984 m at 14 km north to 2,023 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Dirē Dawa, 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 Dirē Dawa

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Melka Jebdu	10 km	W	1,126 m (3,694 ft)	−134 m
Shinile (Somali)	10.9 km	N	1,037 m (3,402 ft)	−223 m
Lange (Oromia)	25.1 km	S	1,943 m (6,375 ft)	+683 m
Alemaya (Oromia)	25.9 km	SE	2,038 m (6,686 ft)	+778 m
Hurso (Somali)	26 km	W	1,129 m (3,704 ft)	−131 m

Peaks and passes near Dirē Dawa

Mount Kemne, peak at 2,308 m (7,572 ft), 16.7 km to the S — 1,048 m above the town.
Keyke, peak at 2,288 m (7,507 ft), 16.8 km to the S — 1,028 m above the town.
Mount Meson Wahel, peak at 2,085 m (6,841 ft), 14.9 km to the SW — 825 m above the town.

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Dirē Dawa is

Latitude 9.589229, longitude 41.87019. 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 Dirē Dawa'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 1,204 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.