Elevation of Murchison, Tasman, New Zealand

Murchison, Tasman, New Zealand is 178 m (584 ft) above sea level.

Murchison's height from sea level is 178 metres, or 584 feet. GeoNames reads 172 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

154 m – 766 m

Mean 351 m across the 8.9 km square centred on the town, 612 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 9

among the towns of Tasman, and 57th of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

38.1 km to the NW, at 373 m, 195 m higher.

Cross-section through Murchison

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Murchison; the vertical scale is the same on both.

752114WE25.1 km
West to east: from 193 m at 13 km west to 499 m at 13 km east.
752114NS25.1 km
North to south: from 392 m at 13 km north to 550 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 53 km around Murchison, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 53 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 Murchison

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Hector-Ngakawau (West Coast) 38.1 kmNW 373 m (1,224 ft) +195 m

Where Murchison is

Latitude -41.800178, longitude 172.3336836. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Murchison elevation: 178 m (584 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 Murchison'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 172 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.