Elevation of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia is 24 m (79 ft) above sea level.

Darwin's height from sea level is 24 metres, or 79 feet. GeoNames reads 31 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 0 m.

Also written: Port Darwin Palmerston.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 34 m

Mean 5 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 34 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

14th of 25

among the towns of Northern Territory, and 668th of 1,000 in Australia.

Nearest town

Palmerston

9.4 km to the NE, at 33 m, 9 m higher.

Cross-section through Darwin

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Darwin; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 17 m at 14 km west to 32 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 0 m at 14 km north to 10 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Darwin, 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 Darwin

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Palmerston	9.4 km	NE	33 m (108 ft)	+9 m
Howard Springs	22.2 km	E	41 m (135 ft)	+17 m
Virginia-Bees Creek	26.7 km	SE	28 m (92 ft)	+4 m
Humpty Doo-McMinns Lagoon	27.4 km	E	30 m (98 ft)	+6 m

Peaks and passes near Darwin

Peak Hill, hill at 30 m (98 ft), 6.8 km to the S — 6 m above the town.

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

Where Darwin is

Latitude -12.4628198, longitude 130.8417694. 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 Darwin'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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.