Elevation of Southbridge, Canterbury, New Zealand

Southbridge, Canterbury, New Zealand is 25 m (82 ft) above sea level.

Southbridge's height from sea level is 25 metres, or 82 feet. GeoNames reads 22 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

5 m – 44 m

Mean 24 m across the 8.8 km square centred on the town, 39 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

28th of 42

among the towns of Canterbury, and 171st of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

6.5 km to the NE, at 21 m, 4 m lower.

Cross-section through Southbridge

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.8 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Southbridge; the vertical scale is the same on both.

59-2WE24.8 km
West to east: from 57 m at 12 km west to 0 m at 12 km east.
59-2NS24.8 km
North to south: from 50 m at 12 km north to 0 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 52 km around Southbridge, 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 Southbridge

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Leeston 6.5 kmNE 21 m (69 ft) −4 m
Dunsandel 17.4 kmN 74 m (243 ft) +49 m
Rakaia 19.4 kmW 111 m (364 ft) +86 m
Burnham 21.9 kmN 63 m (207 ft) +38 m
Rolleston 26.6 kmNE 59 m (194 ft) +34 m

Where Southbridge is

Latitude -43.8111705, longitude 172.2515302. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Southbridge elevation: 25 m (82 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 Southbridge'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 22 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.