Elevation of Kingston, Jamaica

Kingston, Jamaica is 58 m (190 ft) above sea level.

Kingston's height from sea level is 58 metres, or 190 feet. GeoNames reads 65 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 9 m.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 382 m

Mean 63 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 382 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

66th of 103

among the towns of Jamaica with a reading.

Nearest town

Half Way Tree

1.2 km to the N, at 71 m, 13 m higher.

Cross-section through Kingston

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Kingston; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 21 m at 14 km west to 927 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 453 m at 14 km north to 0 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 59 km around Kingston, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 59 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 Kingston

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Half Way Tree (Saint Andrew)	1.2 km	N	71 m (233 ft)	+13 m
Port Royal (Kingston)	3 km	S	0 m (0 ft)	−58 m
Mona (Kingston)	5.6 km	NE	204 m (669 ft)	+146 m
Gordon Town (Saint Andrew)	5.9 km	NE	204 m (669 ft)	+146 m
Constant Spring (Saint Andrew)	7.3 km	N	186 m (610 ft)	+128 m

Peaks and passes near Kingston

Blue Mountain Peak, peak at 2,256 m (7,402 ft), 23.3 km to the E — 2,198 m above the town.
Markham Hill, peak at 1,820 m (5,971 ft), 18.6 km to the NE — 1,762 m above the town.
Mount Horeb, peak at 1,360 m (4,462 ft), 13.1 km to the NE — 1,302 m above the town.

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

Where Kingston is

Latitude 17.992731, longitude -76.7920089. 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 Kingston'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 65 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.