Elevation of Šāwīš, Irbīl, Iraq

Šāwīš, Irbīl, Iraq is 518 m (1,699 ft) above sea level.

Šāwīš's height from sea level is 518 metres, or 1,699 feet. GeoNames reads 510 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Shawish شاويش.

Ground within 5 km

444 m – 633 m

Mean 526 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 189 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

6th of 13

among the towns of Irbīl, and 34th of 260 in Iraq.

Nearest town

Kalkān

2.9 km to the NW, at 493 m, 25 m lower.

Cross-section through Šāwīš

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Šāwīš; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 393 m at 13 km west to 967 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 598 m at 13 km north to 460 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around Šāwīš, 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 Šāwīš

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Kalkān	2.9 km	NW	493 m (1,617 ft)	−25 m
Darband	7 km	SE	650 m (2,133 ft)	+132 m
Bahirkāh	9 km	NW	475 m (1,558 ft)	−43 m
Banī Šilāwah Gawrah	10.2 km	SW	407 m (1,335 ft)	−111 m
Irbīl	10.2 km	SW	407 m (1,335 ft)	−111 m

Peaks and passes near Šāwīš

Qimmat Kūrak, peak at 1,231 m (4,039 ft), 17.8 km to the NE — 713 m above the town.
Jabal Sāritkah, peak at 1,183 m (3,881 ft), 19.7 km to the E — 665 m above the town.
Jabal Sibī, peak at 1,129 m (3,704 ft), 22.7 km to the NE — 611 m above the town.

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Šāwīš is

Latitude 36.25, longitude 44.09. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 Šāwīš'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 510 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.