Elevation of Stirling, Otago, New Zealand

Stirling, Otago, New Zealand is 27 m (89 ft) above sea level.

Stirling's height from sea level is 27 metres, or 89 feet. GeoNames reads 9 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

2 m – 115 m

Mean 24 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 113 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

14th of 24

among the towns of Otago, and 165th of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

3.5 km to the W, at 9 m, 18 m lower.

Cross-section through Stirling

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Stirling; the vertical scale is the same on both.

253-17WE24.3 km
West to east: from 56 m at 12 km west to 132 m at 12 km east.
253-17NS24.3 km
North to south: from 234 m at 12 km north to 7 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 51 km around Stirling, 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 Stirling

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Balclutha 3.5 kmW 9 m (30 ft) −18 m
Kaitangata 6.5 kmSE 5 m (16 ft) −22 m
Milton 20.2 kmNE 16 m (52 ft) −11 m
Owaka 24.5 kmS 17 m (56 ft) −10 m
Clinton 31.4 kmW 123 m (404 ft) +96 m

Where Stirling is

Latitude -46.2475064, longitude 169.7802353. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Stirling elevation: 27 m (89 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 Stirling'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 9 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.