Elevation of Forbes, New South Wales, Australia

Forbes, New South Wales, Australia is 239 m (784 ft) above sea level.

Forbes's height from sea level is 239 metres, or 784 feet. GeoNames reads 243 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 243 m.

Ground within 5 km

234 m – 264 m

Mean 242 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 30 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

96th of 326

among the towns of New South Wales, and 259th of 1,000 in Australia.

Nearest town

Parkes

31.6 km to the NE, at 327 m, 88 m higher.

Cross-section through Forbes

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Forbes; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 230 m at 13 km west to 244 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 257 m at 13 km north to 237 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around Forbes, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 55 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 Forbes

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Parkes	31.6 km	NE	327 m (1,073 ft)	+88 m

Peaks and passes near Forbes

Ben Halls Lookout, hill at 339 m (1,112 ft), 23.7 km to the NW — 100 m above the town.

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

Where Forbes is

Latitude -33.3853703, longitude 148.0080124. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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<a href="https://www.altitude-maps.com/city/12_317,Forbes,New+South+Wales,Australia"><img src="https://www.altitude-maps.com/embed/12_317.svg" width="240" height="60" alt="Forbes elevation: 239 m (784 ft) above sea level"></a>

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 Forbes'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 243 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.