Elevation of Elmina, Central, Ghana

Elmina, Central, Ghana is 3 m (10 ft) above sea level.

Elmina's height from sea level is 3 metres, or 10 feet. GeoNames reads 21 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Edna.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 40 m

Mean 7 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 40 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

10th of 11

among the towns of Central, and 75th of 79 in Ghana.

Nearest town

Cape Coast

11.6 km to the E, at 12 m, 9 m higher.

Cross-section through Elmina

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 Elmina; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 15 m at 14 km west to 0 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 52 m at 14 km north to 0 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Elmina, 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 Elmina

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Cape Coast	11.6 km	E	12 m (39 ft)	+9 m
Shama (Western)	31.4 km	W	4 m (13 ft)	+1 m
Saltpond	34.3 km	E	2 m (7 ft)	−1 m

Where Elmina is

Latitude 5.0833333, longitude -1.35. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Elmina'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 21 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.