Elevation of Oxford, Canterbury, New Zealand

Oxford, Canterbury, New Zealand is 236 m (774 ft) above sea level.

Oxford's height from sea level is 236 metres, or 774 feet. GeoNames reads 244 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

199 m – 599 m

Mean 265 m across the 8.8 km square centred on the town, 400 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

9th of 42

among the towns of Canterbury, and 36th of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

15.4 km to the E, at 136 m, 100 m lower.

Cross-section through Oxford

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 Oxford; the vertical scale is the same on both.

873110WE24.8 km
West to east: from 321 m at 12 km west to 163 m at 12 km east.
873110NS24.8 km
North to south: from 452 m at 12 km north to 204 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 52 km around Oxford, 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 Oxford

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Cust 15.4 kmE 136 m (446 ft) −100 m
Darfield 22.6 kmS 205 m (673 ft) −31 m
Rangiora 32.5 kmE 32 m (105 ft) −204 m
Rolleston 36.1 kmSE 59 m (194 ft) −177 m
Burnham 36.9 kmS 63 m (207 ft) −173 m

Where Oxford is

Latitude -43.2956178, longitude 172.1938987. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Oxford elevation: 236 m (774 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 Oxford'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 244 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.