Elevation of Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Cairns, Queensland, Australia is 8 m (26 ft) above sea level.

Cairns's height from sea level is 8 metres, or 26 feet. GeoNames reads 7 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 7 m.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 234 m

Mean 18 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 234 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

196th of 218

among the towns of Queensland, and 886th of 1,000 in Australia.

Nearest town

Yarrabah

10.6 km to the E, at 51 m, 43 m higher.

Cross-section through Cairns

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 Cairns; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 586 m at 14 km west to 11 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 0 m at 14 km north to 18 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 59 km around Cairns, 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 Cairns

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Yarrabah	10.6 km	E	51 m (167 ft)	+43 m
Cairns Northern Beaches	12.2 km	NW	6 m (20 ft)	−2 m
Smithfield	14.4 km	NW	14 m (46 ft)	+6 m
Kuranda	18.7 km	NW	349 m (1,145 ft)	+341 m
Gordonvale	18.9 km	S	20 m (66 ft)	+12 m

Peaks and passes near Cairns

Walshs Pyramid, peak at 280 m (919 ft), 23.8 km to the S — 272 m above the town.
Mount Peter, peak at 194 m (636 ft), 19.8 km to the S — 186 m above the town.
Green Hill, hill at 130 m (427 ft), 14.3 km to the S — 122 m above the town.

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

Where Cairns is

Latitude -16.9233991, longitude 145.773851. 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 Cairns'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 7 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.