Elevation of Mangawhai Heads, Northland, New Zealand

Mangawhai Heads, Northland, New Zealand is 17 m (56 ft) above sea level.

Mangawhai Heads's height from sea level is 17 metres, or 56 feet. GeoNames reads 7 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 202 m

Mean 26 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 202 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

17th of 26

among the towns of Northland, and 200th of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

14.9 km to the SW, at 22 m, 5 m higher.

Cross-section through Mangawhai Heads

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Mangawhai Heads; the vertical scale is the same on both.

315-24WE26 km
West to east: from 291 m at 13 km west to 0 m at 13 km east.
315-24NS26 km
North to south: from 0 m at 13 km north to 71 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 55 km around Mangawhai Heads, 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 Mangawhai Heads

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Kaiwaka 14.9 kmSW 22 m (72 ft) +5 m
Maungaturoto 20.6 kmW 61 m (200 ft) +44 m
Snells Beach (Auckland) 21 kmSW 68 m (223 ft) +51 m
Wellsford (Auckland) 23.2 kmS 72 m (236 ft) +55 m
Leigh (Auckland) 29.7 kmSE 45 m (148 ft) +28 m

Peaks and passes near Mangawhai Heads

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

Where Mangawhai Heads is

Latitude -36.0911227, longitude 174.5844597. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Mangawhai Heads elevation: 17 m (56 ft) above sea level

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About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Mangawhai Heads'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.