Elevation of Tema, Greater Accra, Ghana

Tema, Greater Accra, Ghana is 33 m (108 ft) above sea level.

Tema's height from sea level is 33 metres, or 108 feet. GeoNames reads 27 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1 m.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 51 m

Mean 24 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 51 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

7th of 12

among the towns of Greater Accra, and 60th of 79 in Ghana.

Nearest town

2.8 km to the NW, at 18 m, 15 m lower.

Cross-section through Tema

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 Tema; the vertical scale is the same on both.

60-1WE28.7 km
West to east: from 47 m at 14 km west to 0 m at 14 km east.
60-1NS28.7 km
North to south: from 27 m at 14 km north to 0 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Tema, 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 Tema

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Lashibi 2.8 kmNW 18 m (59 ft) −15 m
Tema New Town 4.9 kmE 14 m (46 ft) −19 m
Nungua 11.3 kmSW 17 m (56 ft) −16 m
Teshie 13.9 kmSW 13 m (43 ft) −20 m
Madina 14.8 kmW 63 m (207 ft) +30 m

Where Tema is

Latitude 5.6666667, longitude -0.0166667. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Tema elevation: 33 m (108 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 Tema'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 27 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.