Elevation of Carterton, Wellington, New Zealand

Carterton, Wellington, New Zealand is 76 m (249 ft) above sea level.

Carterton's height from sea level is 76 metres, or 249 feet. GeoNames reads 84 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 77 m.

Ground within 5 km

48 m – 170 m

Mean 79 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 122 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

5th of 13

among the towns of Wellington, and 100th of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

Greytown

8.4 km to the SW, at 56 m, 20 m lower.

Cross-section through Carterton

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 Carterton; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 132 m at 13 km west to 90 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 305 m at 13 km north to 102 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 53 km around Carterton, 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 Carterton

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Greytown	8.4 km	SW	56 m (184 ft)	−20 m
Masterton	14.2 km	NE	110 m (361 ft)	+34 m
Featherston	19.4 km	SW	88 m (289 ft)	+12 m
Martinborough	21.8 km	S	37 m (121 ft)	−39 m
Upper Hutt	39.4 km	W	65 m (213 ft)	−11 m

Peaks and passes near Carterton

Mount Hector, peak at 1,529 m (5,016 ft), 22 km to the NW — 1,453 m above the town.
Angle Knob, hill at 1,510 m (4,954 ft), 23.3 km to the NW — 1,434 m above the town.
Mount Holdsworth, peak at 1,470 m (4,823 ft), 20.2 km to the NW — 1,394 m above the town.

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

Where Carterton is

Latitude -41.0291733, longitude 175.5235181. 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 Carterton'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 84 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.