Elevation of Picton, Marlborough, New Zealand

Picton, Marlborough, New Zealand is 16 m (52 ft) above sea level.

Picton's height from sea level is 16 metres, or 52 feet. GeoNames reads 13 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 756 m

Mean 163 m across the 8.9 km square centred on the town, 756 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 4

among the towns of Marlborough, and 205th of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

Havelock

19.5 km to the W, at 16 m, the same elevation.

Cross-section through Picton

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Picton; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 52 m at 13 km west to 97 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 141 m at 13 km north to 72 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 53 km around Picton, 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 Picton

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Havelock	19.5 km	W	16 m (52 ft)	same
Blenheim	25 km	S	8 m (26 ft)	−8 m

Where Picton is

Latitude -41.2905926, longitude 174.0010044. 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 Picton'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 13 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.