Elevation of Rolleston, Canterbury, New Zealand

Rolleston, Canterbury, New Zealand is 59 m (194 ft) above sea level.

Rolleston's height from sea level is 59 metres, or 194 feet. GeoNames reads 60 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 50 m.

Ground within 4 km

29 m – 92 m

Mean 59 m across the 8.8 km square centred on the town, 63 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

23rd of 42

among the towns of Canterbury, and 119th of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

6.6 km to the SW, at 63 m, 4 m higher.

Cross-section through Rolleston

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 Rolleston; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1067WE24.8 km
West to east: from 96 m at 12 km west to 24 m at 12 km east.
1067NS24.8 km
North to south: from 99 m at 12 km north to 14 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 52 km around Rolleston, 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 Rolleston

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Burnham 6.6 kmSW 63 m (207 ft) +4 m
Lincoln 10.1 kmSE 17 m (56 ft) −42 m
Taitapu 15.7 kmSE 8 m (26 ft) −51 m
Dunsandel 16.9 kmSW 74 m (243 ft) +15 m
Leeston 20.2 kmS 21 m (69 ft) −38 m

Peaks and passes near Rolleston

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

Where Rolleston is

Latitude -43.5908451, longitude 172.3791514. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Rolleston elevation: 59 m (194 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 Rolleston'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 60 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.