Elevation of Taihape, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand

Taihape, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand is 462 m (1,516 ft) above sea level.

Taihape's height from sea level is 462 metres, or 1,516 feet. GeoNames reads 443 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

403 m – 749 m

Mean 534 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 346 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

4th of 26

among the towns of Manawatu-Wanganui, and 12th of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

24.8 km to the NW, at 820 m, 358 m higher.

Cross-section through Taihape

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Taihape; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,058300WE25.4 km
West to east: from 544 m at 13 km west to 407 m at 13 km east.
1,058300NS25.4 km
North to south: from 1,005 m at 13 km north to 353 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 53 km around Taihape, 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 Taihape

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Waiouru 24.8 kmNW 820 m (2,690 ft) +358 m
Hunterville 34.8 kmSW 274 m (899 ft) −188 m

Where Taihape is

Latitude -39.6777329, longitude 175.7988055. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Taihape elevation: 462 m (1,516 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 Taihape'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 443 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.