Elevation of Burnham, Canterbury, New Zealand

Burnham, Canterbury, New Zealand is 63 m (207 ft) above sea level.

Burnham's height from sea level is 63 metres, or 207 feet. GeoNames reads 62 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Burnham Military Camp.

Ground within 4 km

32 m – 98 m

Mean 65 m across the 8.8 km square centred on the town, 66 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

20th of 42

among the towns of Canterbury, and 114th of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

6.6 km to the NE, at 59 m, 4 m lower.

Cross-section through Burnham

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 Burnham; the vertical scale is the same on both.

13414WE24.8 km
West to east: from 95 m at 12 km west to 30 m at 12 km east.
13414NS24.8 km
North to south: from 125 m at 12 km north to 23 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 52 km around Burnham, 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 Burnham

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Rolleston 6.6 kmNE 59 m (194 ft) −4 m
Dunsandel 10.3 kmSW 74 m (243 ft) +11 m
Lincoln 14.6 kmE 17 m (56 ft) −46 m
Leeston 16.1 kmS 21 m (69 ft) −42 m
Taitapu 20.1 kmE 8 m (26 ft) −55 m

Where Burnham is

Latitude -43.6178066, longitude 172.3058752. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Burnham elevation: 63 m (207 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 Burnham'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 62 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.