Elevation of Bagdād, Baghdad, Iraq

Bagdād, Baghdad, Iraq is 39 m (128 ft) above sea level.

Bagdād's height from sea level is 39 metres, or 128 feet. GeoNames reads 41 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Bagdad بغداد.

Ground within 5 km

33 m – 44 m

Mean 38 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 11 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 9

among the towns of Baghdad, and 182nd of 260 in Iraq.

Nearest town

15.7 km to the N, at 35 m, 4 m lower.

Cross-section through Bagdād

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Bagdād; the vertical scale is the same on both.

677WE26.4 km
West to east: from 39 m at 13 km west to 36 m at 13 km east.
677NS26.4 km
North to south: from 35 m at 13 km north to 35 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 55 km around Bagdād, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 55 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 Bagdād

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Amīn Effendi Sarẖān 15.7 kmN 35 m (115 ft) −4 m
ar-Rāšidīyah 24.2 kmN 38 m (125 ft) −1 m
Mah̨mūd-al-'Alī 25.4 kmNW 37 m (121 ft) −2 m
Tall Misţarah 28.7 kmNW 34 m (112 ft) −5 m
Banī Şa'd (Diyalā) 28.8 kmN 41 m (135 ft) +2 m

Where Bagdād is

Latitude 33.3324799, longitude 44.418399. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Bagdād elevation: 39 m (128 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 Bagdād'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 41 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.