Elevation of Jijiga, Somali, Ethiopia

Jijiga, Somali, Ethiopia is 1,645 m (5,397 ft) above sea level.

Jijiga's height from sea level is 1,645 metres, or 5,397 feet. GeoNames reads 1,646 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1,609 m to 1,646 m.

Also written: Jigjiga Jigijiga Djidjiga Giggiga.

Ground within 5 km

1,622 m – 1,770 m

Mean 1,678 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 148 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

4th of 39

among the towns of Somali, and 472nd of 645 in Ethiopia.

Cross-section through Jijiga

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 Jijiga; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,754 m at 14 km west to 1,769 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 1,784 m at 14 km north to 1,694 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Jijiga, 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.

Peaks and passes near Jijiga

Gara Goreis, peak at 2,599 m (8,527 ft), 22.5 km to the NW — 954 m above the town.
Gurēsa Terara, peak at 2,285 m (7,497 ft), 10.9 km to the W — 640 m above the town.
Balē Terara, peak at 2,191 m (7,188 ft), 12.8 km to the W — 546 m above the town.

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

Where Jijiga is

Latitude 9.35, longitude 42.8. 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 Jijiga'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 1,646 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.