Elevation of Alexandra, Otago, New Zealand

Alexandra, Otago, New Zealand is 153 m (502 ft) above sea level.

Alexandra's height from sea level is 153 metres, or 502 feet. GeoNames reads 152 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 180 m.

Ground within 4 km

144 m – 484 m

Mean 225 m across the 8.7 km square centred on the town, 340 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

8th of 24

among the towns of Otago, and 65th of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

8.5 km to the NW, at 168 m, 15 m higher.

Cross-section through Alexandra

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Alexandra; the vertical scale is the same on both.

85491WE24.5 km
West to east: from 510 m at 12 km west to 321 m at 12 km east.
85491NS24.5 km
North to south: from 496 m at 12 km north to 719 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 51 km around Alexandra, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 51 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 Alexandra

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Clyde 8.5 kmNW 168 m (551 ft) +15 m
Cromwell 27.7 kmNW 213 m (699 ft) +60 m
Roxburgh 32.7 kmS 106 m (348 ft) −47 m

Where Alexandra is

Latitude -45.2491667, longitude 169.3797222. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Alexandra elevation: 153 m (502 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 Alexandra'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 152 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.