Elevation of Mount Cook, Canterbury, New Zealand

Mount Cook, Canterbury, New Zealand is 730 m (2,395 ft) above sea level.

Mount Cook's height from sea level is 730 metres, or 2,395 feet.

Also written: Mt Cook.

Ground within 4 km

637 m – 1,966 m

Mean 1,123 m across the 8.8 km square centred on the town, 1,329 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 42

among the towns of Canterbury, and 3rd of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

30 km to the N, at 879 m, 149 m higher.

Cross-section through Mount Cook

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.8 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Mount Cook; the vertical scale is the same on both.

2,367507WE24.8 km
West to east: from 1,565 m at 12 km west to 1,495 m at 12 km east.
2,367507NS24.8 km
North to south: from 2,145 m at 12 km north to 712 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 52 km around Mount Cook, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 52 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 Mount Cook

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Franz Josef (West Coast) 30 kmN 879 m (2,884 ft) +149 m
Fox Glacier (West Coast) 30.3 kmN 185 m (607 ft) −545 m

Peaks and passes near Mount Cook

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

Where Mount Cook is

Latitude -43.73, longitude 170.1. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Mount Cook elevation: 730 m (2,395 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 Mount Cook'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.