Elevation of Perai, Basse, Gambia

Perai, Basse, Gambia is 18 m (59 ft) above sea level.

Perai's height from sea level is 18 metres, or 59 feet. GeoNames reads 14 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

7 m – 53 m

Mean 27 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 46 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

48th of 58

among the towns of Basse, and 173rd of 285 in Gambia.

Nearest town

3.9 km to the S, at 27 m, 9 m higher.

Cross-section through Perai

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Perai; the vertical scale is the same on both.

622WE28.4 km
West to east: from 21 m at 14 km west to 48 m at 14 km east.
622NS28.4 km
North to south: from 35 m at 14 km north to 43 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Perai, 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 Perai

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Waliba Kunda 3.9 kmS 27 m (89 ft) +9 m
Tuba Simoto 4.9 kmE 18 m (59 ft) same
Wassadu 5.1 kmS 31 m (102 ft) +13 m
Kerr Alpha (Kuntaur) 6 kmSE 16 m (52 ft) −2 m
Sare Alpha 6 kmSE 16 m (52 ft) −2 m

Where Perai is

Latitude 13.3813713, longitude -14.0311791. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Perai elevation: 18 m (59 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 Perai'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 14 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.