Elevation of Montego Bay, Saint James, Jamaica
Montego Bay, Saint James, Jamaica is 48 m (157 ft) above sea level.
Montego Bay's height from sea level is 48 metres, or 157 feet. GeoNames reads 12 m at the same point (SRTM).
Ground within 5 km
Mean 73 m across the 9.9 km square centred on the town, 312 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Montego Bay
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Montego Bay; the vertical scale is the same on both.
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 Montego Bay
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anchovy | 6.7 km | S | 226 m (741 ft) | +178 m |
| Sandy Bay (Hanover) | 16.8 km | W | 0 m (0 ft) | −48 m |
| Cambridge | 17.5 km | S | 183 m (600 ft) | +135 m |
| Bethel Town (Westmoreland) | 18.2 km | S | 284 m (932 ft) | +236 m |
| Maroon Town | 18.2 km | SE | 470 m (1,542 ft) | +422 m |
Peaks and passes near Montego Bay
- Leyden Mountain, hill at 440 m (1,444 ft), 13.9 km to the SE — 392 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Montego Bay is
Latitude 18.4666667, longitude -77.9166667. 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 Montego Bay'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 12 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.