Elevation of Opunake, Taranaki, New Zealand

Opunake, Taranaki, New Zealand is 26 m (85 ft) above sea level.

Opunake's height from sea level is 26 metres, or 85 feet. GeoNames reads 32 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 104 m

Mean 28 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 104 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

13th of 15

among the towns of Taranaki, and 169th of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

Rahotu

14.8 km to the N, at 51 m, 25 m higher.

Cross-section through Opunake

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Opunake; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 0 m at 13 km west to 150 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 131 m at 13 km north to 0 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 53 km around Opunake, 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 Opunake

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Rahotu	14.8 km	N	51 m (167 ft)	+25 m
Kaponga	25.2 km	E	274 m (899 ft)	+248 m
Manaia	25.6 km	SE	71 m (233 ft)	+45 m
Okato	29.2 km	N	104 m (341 ft)	+78 m
Eltham	38 km	E	218 m (715 ft)	+192 m

Peaks and passes near Opunake

Mount Taranaki, peak at 2,518 m (8,261 ft), 24.8 km to the NE — 2,492 m above the town.

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

Where Opunake is

Latitude -39.453943, longitude 173.858183. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 Opunake'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 32 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.