Elevation of Butterworth, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia

Butterworth, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia is 8 m (26 ft) above sea level.

Butterworth's height from sea level is 8 metres, or 26 feet. Wikidata records 8 m.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 10 m

Mean 4 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 10 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

24th of 44

among the towns of Pulau Pinang, and 623rd of 759 in Malaysia.

Nearest town

Sungai Puyu

2.2 km to the N, at 8 m, the same elevation.

Cross-section through Butterworth

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Butterworth; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 631 m at 14 km west to 19 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 5 m at 14 km north to 0 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Butterworth, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 60 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 Butterworth

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Sungai Puyu	2.2 km	N	8 m (26 ft)	same
Pematang Pauh	4 km	SE	6 m (20 ft)	−2 m
Sungai Dua	4.9 km	E	10 m (33 ft)	+2 m
Perai	4.9 km	S	8 m (26 ft)	same
Pertama	5.6 km	SE	6 m (20 ft)	−2 m

Peaks and passes near Butterworth

Bukit Western, hill at 832 m (2,730 ft), 14.9 km to the W — 824 m above the town.
Bukit Tiger, peak at 800 m (2,625 ft), 15 km to the W — 792 m above the town.
Bukit Kerajae, peak at 739 m (2,425 ft), 14 km to the W — 731 m above the town.

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

Where Butterworth is

Latitude 5.428295, longitude 100.386958. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Butterworth'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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.