Elevation of Tamale, Northern, Ghana

Tamale, Northern, Ghana is 186 m (610 ft) above sea level.

Tamale's height from sea level is 186 metres, or 610 feet. GeoNames reads 196 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 151 m.

Also written: Tamala.

Ground within 5 km

138 m – 199 m

Mean 168 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 61 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 5

among the towns of Northern, and 29th of 79 in Ghana.

Nearest town

24.3 km to the N, at 168 m, 18 m lower.

Cross-section through Tamale

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 Tamale; the vertical scale is the same on both.

199114WE28.6 km
West to east: from 158 m at 14 km west to 120 m at 14 km east.
199114NS28.6 km
North to south: from 160 m at 14 km north to 130 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Tamale, 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 Tamale

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Savelugu 24.3 kmN 168 m (551 ft) −18 m

Where Tamale is

Latitude 9.4075, longitude -0.8533333. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

Put this on your site

Tamale elevation: 186 m (610 ft) above sea level

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 Tamale'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 196 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.