Elevation of Ārba Minch, Southern, Ethiopia

Ārba Minch, Southern, Ethiopia is 1,243 m (4,078 ft) above sea level.

Ārba Minch's height from sea level is 1,243 metres, or 4,078 feet. GeoNames reads 1,269 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1,269 m to 1,285 m.

Also written: Arba Minch Arba Minty.

Ground within 5 km

1,182 m – 1,875 m

Mean 1,331 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 693 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

93rd of 100

among the towns of Southern, and 567th of 645 in Ethiopia.

Nearest town

Shama

17.1 km to the N, at 2,618 m, 1,375 m higher.

Cross-section through Ārba Minch

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 Ārba Minch; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 2,258 m at 14 km west to 1,176 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 1,744 m at 14 km north to 1,109 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Ārba Minch, 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 Ārba Minch

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Shama	17.1 km	N	2,618 m (8,589 ft)	+1,375 m
Dorze	20.8 km	N	2,531 m (8,304 ft)	+1,288 m
Ch'ench'a	24.2 km	N	2,694 m (8,839 ft)	+1,451 m
Gerese	30.5 km	SW	2,311 m (7,582 ft)	+1,068 m

Peaks and passes near Ārba Minch

Gugē, peak at 4,200 m (13,780 ft), 19.3 km to the N — 2,957 m above the town.
Tosa Sucha, volcano at 1,650 m (5,413 ft), 11.3 km to the S — 407 m above the town.

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

Where Ārba Minch is

Latitude 6.0333333, longitude 37.55. 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 Ārba Minch'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 1,269 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.