Elevation of Spanish Town, Saint Catherine, Jamaica

Spanish Town, Saint Catherine, Jamaica is 33 m (108 ft) above sea level.

Spanish Town's height from sea level is 33 metres, or 108 feet. GeoNames reads 31 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

10 m – 180 m

Mean 44 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 170 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

8th of 11

among the towns of Saint Catherine, and 79th of 103 in Jamaica.

Nearest town

9.1 km to the SE, at 17 m, 16 m lower.

Cross-section through Spanish Town

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 Spanish Town; the vertical scale is the same on both.

659-49WE28.1 km
West to east: from 152 m at 14 km west to 9 m at 14 km east.
659-49NS28.1 km
North to south: from 166 m at 14 km north to 126 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 59 km around Spanish Town, 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 Spanish Town

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Portmore 9.1 kmSE 17 m (56 ft) −16 m
Point Hill 12 kmNW 172 m (564 ft) +139 m
Bog Walk 13.7 kmNW 87 m (285 ft) +54 m
Above Rocks 14.9 kmNE 250 m (820 ft) +217 m
Half Way Tree (Saint Andrew) 16.9 kmE 71 m (233 ft) +38 m

Peaks and passes near Spanish Town

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

Where Spanish Town is

Latitude 17.994761, longitude -76.951599. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Spanish Town elevation: 33 m (108 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 Spanish Town'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 31 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.