Elevation of Sefton, Canterbury, New Zealand

Sefton, Canterbury, New Zealand is 20 m (66 ft) above sea level.

Sefton's height from sea level is 20 metres, or 66 feet. GeoNames reads 13 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

3 m – 165 m

Mean 37 m across the 8.8 km square centred on the town, 162 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

30th of 42

among the towns of Canterbury, and 187th of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

5.2 km to the S, at 7 m, 13 m lower.

Cross-section through Sefton

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Sefton; the vertical scale is the same on both.

169-13WE24.9 km
West to east: from 100 m at 12 km west to 0 m at 12 km east.
169-13NS24.9 km
North to south: from 95 m at 12 km north to 7 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 52 km around Sefton, 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 Sefton

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Waikuku 5.2 kmS 7 m (23 ft) −13 m
Rangiora 8.2 kmSW 32 m (105 ft) +12 m
Woodend 8.4 kmS 8 m (26 ft) −12 m
Amberley 11.7 kmNE 46 m (151 ft) +26 m
Kaiapoi 14.8 kmS 4 m (13 ft) −16 m

Where Sefton is

Latitude -43.2500025, longitude 172.6652231. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Sefton elevation: 20 m (66 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 Sefton'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 13 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.