Elevation of Rotorua, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
Rotorua, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand is 290 m (951 ft) above sea level.
Rotorua's height from sea level is 290 metres, or 951 feet. GeoNames reads 287 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 280 m.
Ground within 5 km
Mean 330 m across the 9.1 km square centred on the town, 312 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Rotorua
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Rotorua; the vertical scale is the same on both.
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 Rotorua
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mamaku | 15.7 km | W | 580 m (1,903 ft) | +290 m |
| Reporoa (Waikato) | 34.2 km | S | 299 m (981 ft) | +9 m |
| Tokoroa (Waikato) | 34.3 km | W | 337 m (1,106 ft) | +47 m |
| Paengaroa | 37.7 km | N | 30 m (98 ft) | −260 m |
| Te Teko (Waikato) | 38.9 km | W | 332 m (1,089 ft) | +42 m |
Peaks and passes near Rotorua
- Mount Tarawera, volcano at 1,111 m (3,645 ft), 24.6 km to the SE — 821 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Rotorua is
Latitude -38.1368478, longitude 176.2497461. 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 Rotorua'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 287 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.