Elevation of Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana

Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana is 29 m (95 ft) above sea level.

Accra's height from sea level is 29 metres, or 95 feet. GeoNames reads 33 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 61 m.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 59 m

Mean 18 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 59 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

8th of 12

among the towns of Greater Accra, and 62nd of 79 in Ghana.

Nearest town

Teshie

10.4 km to the E, at 13 m, 16 m lower.

Cross-section through Accra

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 Accra; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 7 m at 14 km west to 0 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 54 m at 14 km north to 0 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Accra, 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 Accra

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Teshie	10.4 km	E	13 m (43 ft)	−16 m
Dome	11.9 km	N	39 m (128 ft)	+10 m
Nungua	12.7 km	E	17 m (56 ft)	−12 m
Gbawe	12.9 km	W	34 m (112 ft)	+5 m
Madina	13.4 km	NE	63 m (207 ft)	+34 m

Where Accra is

Latitude 5.5557169, longitude -0.196306. 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 Accra'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 33 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.