Elevation of Shannon, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand

Shannon, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand is 15 m (49 ft) above sea level.

Shannon's height from sea level is 15 metres, or 49 feet. GeoNames reads 25 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

3 m – 300 m

Mean 45 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 297 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

24th of 26

among the towns of Manawatu-Wanganui, and 213th of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

Tokomaru

11.6 km to the NE, at 27 m, 12 m higher.

Cross-section through Shannon

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Shannon; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 18 m at 13 km west to 318 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 21 m at 13 km north to 686 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 53 km around Shannon, 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 Shannon

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Tokomaru	11.6 km	NE	27 m (89 ft)	+12 m
Foxton	13.5 km	NW	9 m (30 ft)	−6 m
Levin	13.7 km	SW	34 m (112 ft)	+19 m
Himatangi	19.1 km	NW	21 m (69 ft)	+6 m
Eketahuna	27 km	SE	222 m (728 ft)	+207 m

Peaks and passes near Shannon

Bannister, peak at 1,537 m (5,043 ft), 22.4 km to the S — 1,522 m above the town.
Ngamaia, peak at 982 m (3,222 ft), 15.5 km to the SE — 967 m above the town.
Peak, hill at 890 m (2,920 ft), 11.3 km to the SE — 875 m above the town.

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

Where Shannon is

Latitude -40.545741, longitude 175.4128878. 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 Shannon'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 25 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.