Elevation of Harar, Ethiopia

Harar, Ethiopia is 1,880 m (6,168 ft) above sea level.

Harar's height from sea level is 1,880 metres, or 6,168 feet. GeoNames reads 1,917 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1,885 m.

Also written: Harer.

Ground within 5 km

1,629 m – 2,150 m

Mean 1,903 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 521 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

360th of 645

among the towns of Ethiopia with a reading.

Nearest town

Alemaya

16.9 km to the NW, at 2,038 m, 158 m higher.

Cross-section through Harar

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 Harar; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,904 m at 14 km west to 1,548 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 2,113 m at 14 km north to 1,919 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Harar, 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 Harar

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Alemaya (Oromia)	16.9 km	NW	2,038 m (6,686 ft)	+158 m
Ejersa Goro (Oromia)	23.2 km	NE	2,575 m (8,448 ft)	+695 m
Fugnan Bira (Oromia)	29.8 km	E	1,947 m (6,388 ft)	+67 m
Lange (Oromia)	34.8 km	W	1,943 m (6,375 ft)	+63 m
Kurfa Chele (Oromia)	34.9 km	W	2,301 m (7,549 ft)	+421 m

Peaks and passes near Harar

Āybera Terara, peak at 2,861 m (9,386 ft), 22.7 km to the NE — 981 m above the town.
Were Mucha Terara, peak at 2,443 m (8,015 ft), 24.4 km to the N — 563 m above the town.
Bech’ek’ē Terara, peak at 2,433 m (7,982 ft), 17 km to the N — 553 m above the town.

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

Where Harar is

Latitude 9.304648, longitude 42.132641. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

Put this on your site

<a href="https://www.altitude-maps.com/city/66_474,Harar,Harar,Ethiopia"><img src="https://www.altitude-maps.com/embed/66_474.svg" width="240" height="60" alt="Harar elevation: 1,880 m (6,168 ft) above sea level"></a>

A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Harar'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 1,917 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.