Elevation of Rangiora, Canterbury, New Zealand

Rangiora, Canterbury, New Zealand is 32 m (105 ft) above sea level.

Rangiora's height from sea level is 32 metres, or 105 feet. GeoNames reads 36 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

3 m – 74 m

Mean 31 m across the 8.8 km square centred on the town, 71 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

25th of 42

among the towns of Canterbury, and 154th of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

6.2 km to the SE, at 8 m, 24 m lower.

Cross-section through Rangiora

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 Rangiora; the vertical scale is the same on both.

254-19WE24.8 km
West to east: from 105 m at 12 km west to 0 m at 12 km east.
254-19NS24.8 km
North to south: from 225 m at 12 km north to 14 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 52 km around Rangiora, 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 Rangiora

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Woodend 6.2 kmSE 8 m (26 ft) −24 m
Waikuku 7.2 kmE 7 m (23 ft) −25 m
Sefton 8.2 kmNE 20 m (66 ft) −12 m
Kaiapoi 10.1 kmSE 4 m (13 ft) −28 m
Cust 17.2 kmW 136 m (446 ft) +104 m

Where Rangiora is

Latitude -43.303356, longitude 172.5957246. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Rangiora elevation: 32 m (105 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 Rangiora'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 36 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.