Elevation of Cheviot, Canterbury, New Zealand

Cheviot, Canterbury, New Zealand is 63 m (207 ft) above sea level.

Cheviot's height from sea level is 63 metres, or 207 feet. GeoNames reads 58 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 60 m.

Ground within 4 km

12 m – 288 m

Mean 98 m across the 8.8 km square centred on the town, 276 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

20th of 42

among the towns of Canterbury, and 114th of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

25.8 km to the NW, at 139 m, 76 m higher.

Cross-section through Cheviot

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 Cheviot; the vertical scale is the same on both.

363-27WE24.9 km
West to east: from 299 m at 12 km west to 0 m at 12 km east.
363-27NS24.9 km
North to south: from 149 m at 12 km north to 0 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 52 km around Cheviot, 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 Cheviot

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Waiau 25.8 kmNW 139 m (456 ft) +76 m
Culverden 34.9 kmW 183 m (600 ft) +120 m

Where Cheviot is

Latitude -42.8121221, longitude 173.2736762. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Cheviot elevation: 63 m (207 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 Cheviot'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 58 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.