Elevation of Milton, Otago, New Zealand

Milton, Otago, New Zealand is 16 m (52 ft) above sea level.

Milton's height from sea level is 16 metres, or 52 feet. GeoNames reads 20 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 20 m.

Ground within 4 km

8 m – 278 m

Mean 57 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 270 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

18th of 24

among the towns of Otago, and 205th of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

20.2 km to the SW, at 27 m, 11 m higher.

Cross-section through Milton

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Milton; the vertical scale is the same on both.

444-20WE24.3 km
West to east: from 85 m at 12 km west to 334 m at 12 km east.
444-20NS24.3 km
North to south: from 334 m at 12 km north to 73 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 51 km around Milton, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 51 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 Milton

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Stirling 20.2 kmSW 27 m (89 ft) +11 m
Kaitangata 20.5 kmSW 5 m (16 ft) −11 m
Balclutha 22.1 kmSW 9 m (30 ft) −7 m
Lawrence 31.3 kmNW 131 m (430 ft) +115 m
Outram 35.5 kmNE 34 m (112 ft) +18 m

Where Milton is

Latitude -46.1174416, longitude 169.9631137. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Milton elevation: 16 m (52 ft) above sea level

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 Milton'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 20 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.