Elevation of Tapanui, Otago, New Zealand

Tapanui, Otago, New Zealand is 192 m (630 ft) above sea level.

Tapanui's height from sea level is 192 metres, or 630 feet. GeoNames reads 178 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

117 m – 694 m

Mean 231 m across the 8.7 km square centred on the town, 577 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

6th of 24

among the towns of Otago, and 54th of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

29.8 km to the SW, at 75 m, 117 m lower.

Cross-section through Tapanui

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Tapanui; the vertical scale is the same on both.

91170WE24.4 km
West to east: from 159 m at 12 km west to 530 m at 12 km east.
91170NS24.4 km
North to south: from 272 m at 12 km north to 165 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 51 km around Tapanui, 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 Tapanui

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Gore (Southland) 29.8 kmSW 75 m (246 ft) −117 m
Clinton 30.2 kmS 123 m (404 ft) −69 m
Lawrence 32.9 kmE 131 m (430 ft) −61 m

Where Tapanui is

Latitude -45.9433206, longitude 169.2605276. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Tapanui elevation: 192 m (630 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 Tapanui'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 178 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.