Elevation of Palmerston, Otago, New Zealand

Palmerston, Otago, New Zealand is 31 m (102 ft) above sea level.

Palmerston's height from sea level is 31 metres, or 102 feet. GeoNames reads 14 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

10 m – 251 m

Mean 62 m across the 8.7 km square centred on the town, 241 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

13th of 24

among the towns of Otago, and 156th of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

12.8 km to the S, at 18 m, 13 m lower.

Cross-section through Palmerston

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Palmerston; the vertical scale is the same on both.

476-36WE24.5 km
West to east: from 229 m at 12 km west to 0 m at 12 km east.
476-36NS24.5 km
North to south: from 401 m at 12 km north to 0 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 51 km around Palmerston, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 51 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 Palmerston

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Waikouaiti 12.8 kmS 18 m (59 ft) −13 m
Karitane 17.8 kmS 7 m (23 ft) −24 m
Hampden (Canterbury) 19.6 kmNE 19 m (62 ft) −12 m
Warrington 26.7 kmS 23 m (75 ft) −8 m
Waitati 31.2 kmS 7 m (23 ft) −24 m

Where Palmerston is

Latitude -45.4848933, longitude 170.7148868. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Palmerston elevation: 31 m (102 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 Palmerston'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 14 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.