Elevation of Salaga, Northern, Ghana

Salaga, Northern, Ghana is 165 m (541 ft) above sea level.

Salaga's height from sea level is 165 metres, or 541 feet. GeoNames reads 163 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

122 m – 184 m

Mean 154 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 62 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

5th of 5

among the towns of Northern, and 37th of 79 in Ghana.

Cross-section through Salaga

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Salaga; the vertical scale is the same on both.

189108WE28.6 km
West to east: from 142 m at 14 km west to 120 m at 14 km east.
189108NS28.6 km
North to south: from 148 m at 14 km north to 142 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Salaga, 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.

Where Salaga is

Latitude 8.55, longitude -0.5166667. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Salaga elevation: 165 m (541 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 Salaga'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 163 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.