Elevation of Bekwai, Ashanti, Ghana

Bekwai, Ashanti, Ghana is 218 m (715 ft) above sea level.

Bekwai's height from sea level is 218 metres, or 715 feet. GeoNames reads 219 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

180 m – 234 m

Mean 207 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 54 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

7th of 8

among the towns of Ashanti, and 24th of 79 in Ghana.

Nearest town

26.7 km to the N, at 265 m, 47 m higher.

Cross-section through Bekwai

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 Bekwai; the vertical scale is the same on both.

322172WE28.7 km
West to east: from 248 m at 14 km west to 311 m at 14 km east.
322172NS28.7 km
North to south: from 236 m at 14 km north to 241 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Bekwai, 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 Bekwai

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Kumasi 26.7 kmN 265 m (869 ft) +47 m
Obuasi 29.7 kmS 202 m (663 ft) −16 m
Tafo 31.9 kmN 280 m (919 ft) +62 m

Where Bekwai is

Latitude 6.45, longitude -1.5833333. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Bekwai elevation: 218 m (715 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 Bekwai'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 219 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.