Elevation of Launceston, Tasmania, Australia

Launceston, Tasmania, Australia is 13 m (43 ft) above sea level.

Launceston's height from sea level is 13 metres, or 43 feet. GeoNames reads 11 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 0 m.

Ground within 4 km

1 m – 208 m

Mean 79 m across the 8.9 km square centred on the town, 207 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

39th of 55

among the towns of Tasmania, and 795th of 1,000 in Australia.

Nearest town

Hadspen

9.5 km to the SW, at 156 m, 143 m higher.

Cross-section through Launceston

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Launceston; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 323 m at 13 km west to 264 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 260 m at 13 km north to 176 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 53 km around Launceston, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 53 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 Launceston

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Hadspen	9.5 km	SW	156 m (512 ft)	+143 m
Legana	11.4 km	NW	31 m (102 ft)	+18 m
Grindelwald	15.1 km	NW	188 m (617 ft)	+175 m
Perth	15.9 km	S	159 m (522 ft)	+146 m
Evandale	17.5 km	SE	166 m (545 ft)	+153 m

Peaks and passes near Launceston

Mount Barrow, peak at 1,413 m (4,636 ft), 23.8 km to the E — 1,400 m above the town.
Mount Arthur, peak at 1,188 m (3,898 ft), 22 km to the NE — 1,175 m above the town.

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

Where Launceston is

Latitude -41.4370868, longitude 147.1393767. 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 Launceston'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 11 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.