Elevation of Palmerston North, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand

Palmerston North, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand is 36 m (118 ft) above sea level.

Palmerston North's height from sea level is 36 metres, or 118 feet. GeoNames reads 34 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 46 m.

Also written: Te Papaioea.

Ground within 5 km

22 m – 96 m

Mean 41 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 74 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

19th of 26

among the towns of Manawatu-Wanganui, and 148th of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

Feilding

14.5 km to the N, at 72 m, 36 m higher.

Cross-section through Palmerston North

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Palmerston North; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 12 m at 13 km west to 291 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 85 m at 13 km north to 366 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 53 km around Palmerston North, 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 Palmerston North

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Feilding	14.5 km	N	72 m (236 ft)	+36 m
Tokomaru	15.8 km	SW	27 m (89 ft)	−9 m
Rongotea	17.1 km	NW	29 m (95 ft)	−7 m
Sanson	21.4 km	NW	58 m (190 ft)	+22 m
Woodville	21.7 km	E	86 m (282 ft)	+50 m

Peaks and passes near Palmerston North

Wharite Peak, hill at 920 m (3,018 ft), 23.6 km to the NE — 884 m above the town.
Ngāwhakaraua, peak at 855 m (2,805 ft), 22.4 km to the S — 819 m above the town.
Mairehau, peak at 849 m (2,785 ft), 22.6 km to the S — 813 m above the town.

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

Where Palmerston North is

Latitude -40.3523065, longitude 175.6082145. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 North'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 34 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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.