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

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
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kaiwaka | 14.9 km | SW | 22 m (72 ft) | +5 m |
| Maungaturoto | 20.6 km | W | 61 m (200 ft) | +44 m |
| Snells Beach (Auckland) | 21 km | SW | 68 m (223 ft) | +51 m |
| Wellsford (Auckland) | 23.2 km | S | 72 m (236 ft) | +55 m |
| Leigh (Auckland) | 29.7 km | SE | 45 m (148 ft) | +28 m |
Peaks and passes near Mangawhai Heads
- The Pinnacles, hill at 416 m (1,365 ft), 18 km to the NE — 399 m above the town.
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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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.