Elevation of Omarama, Canterbury, New Zealand

Omarama, Canterbury, New Zealand is 428 m (1,404 ft) above sea level.

Omarama's height from sea level is 428 metres, or 1,404 feet. GeoNames reads 431 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

397 m – 1,302 m

Mean 542 m across the 8.7 km square centred on the town, 905 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

4th of 42

among the towns of Canterbury, and 13th of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

22.2 km to the SE, at 282 m, 146 m lower.

Cross-section through Omarama

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Omarama; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,340301WE24.6 km
West to east: from 541 m at 12 km west to 600 m at 12 km east.
1,340301NS24.6 km
North to south: from 807 m at 12 km north to 1,268 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 52 km around Omarama, 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 Omarama

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Otematata 22.2 kmSE 282 m (925 ft) −146 m
Twizel 27.6 kmNE 464 m (1,522 ft) +36 m

Peaks and passes near Omarama

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

Where Omarama is

Latitude -44.4880399, longitude 169.9669277. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Omarama elevation: 428 m (1,404 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 Omarama'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 431 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.