Elevation of Raetihi, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand

Raetihi, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand is 523 m (1,716 ft) above sea level.

Raetihi's height from sea level is 523 metres, or 1,716 feet. GeoNames reads 524 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

463 m – 687 m

Mean 550 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 224 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

3rd of 26

among the towns of Manawatu-Wanganui, and 8th of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

10.1 km to the E, at 588 m, 65 m higher.

Cross-section through Raetihi

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Raetihi; the vertical scale is the same on both.

667295WE25.5 km
West to east: from 489 m at 13 km west to 606 m at 13 km east.
667295NS25.5 km
North to south: from 495 m at 13 km north to 321 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 53 km around Raetihi, 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 Raetihi

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Ohakune 10.1 kmE 588 m (1,929 ft) +65 m
Te Kopuru (Northland) 32.6 kmSW 352 m (1,155 ft) −171 m
Waiouru 33.7 kmE 820 m (2,690 ft) +297 m

Where Raetihi is

Latitude -39.4269651, longitude 175.2817343. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Raetihi elevation: 523 m (1,716 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 Raetihi'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 524 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.