Elevation of Clifden, Galway, Ireland

Clifden, Galway, Ireland is 28 m (92 ft) above sea level.

Clifden's height from sea level is 28 metres, or 92 feet. GeoNames reads 25 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 50 m.

Ground within 4 km

1 m – 159 m

Mean 48 m across the 8.1 km square centred on the town, 158 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

17th of 34

among the towns of Galway, and 495th of 692 in Ireland.

Nearest town

12.4 km to the SE, at 17 m, 11 m lower.

Cross-section through Clifden

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 22.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Clifden; the vertical scale is the same on both.

235-18WE22.9 km
West to east: from 0 m at 11 km west to 152 m at 11 km east.
235-18NS22.9 km
North to south: from 0 m at 11 km north to 0 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 48 km around Clifden, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 48 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 Clifden

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Roundstone 12.4 kmSE 17 m (56 ft) −11 m
Louisburgh (Mayo) 33.3 kmNE 8 m (26 ft) −20 m
Carraroe 37.5 kmSE 15 m (49 ft) −13 m

Peaks and passes near Clifden

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

Where Clifden is

Latitude 53.4891262, longitude -10.0202686. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Clifden elevation: 28 m (92 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 Clifden'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 25 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.