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

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
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Franz Josef (West Coast) | 30 km | N | 879 m (2,884 ft) | +149 m |
| Fox Glacier (West Coast) | 30.3 km | N | 185 m (607 ft) | −545 m |
Peaks and passes near Mount Cook
- Aoraki / Mount Cook, peak at 3,724 m (12,218 ft), 15.4 km to the N — 2,994 m above the town.
- Mount Tasman, peak at 3,498 m (11,476 ft), 18.8 km to the N — 2,768 m above the town.
- Mount Dampier, peak at 3,440 m (11,286 ft), 16 km to the N — 2,710 m above the town.
- Copland Pass, pass at 2,150 m (7,054 ft), 8.5 km to the N.
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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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.