Elevation of Taupo, Waikato, New Zealand

Taupo, Waikato, New Zealand is 373 m (1,224 ft) above sea level.

Taupo's height from sea level is 373 metres, or 1,224 feet. GeoNames reads 405 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 360 m.

Ground within 5 km

356 m – 573 m

Mean 418 m across the 9.1 km square centred on the town, 217 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 41

among the towns of Waikato, and 15th of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

Kinloch

13.1 km to the W, at 366 m, 7 m lower.

Cross-section through Taupo

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Taupo; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 384 m at 13 km west to 413 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 582 m at 13 km north to 460 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 54 km around Taupo, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 54 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 Taupo

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Kinloch	13.1 km	W	366 m (1,201 ft)	−7 m
Reporoa	36.4 km	NE	299 m (981 ft)	−74 m
Turangi	37 km	S	567 m (1,860 ft)	+194 m

Peaks and passes near Taupo

Tauhara, hill at 1,088 m (3,570 ft), 7.8 km to the E — 715 m above the town.

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Taupo is

Latitude -38.6856924, longitude 176.0702098. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 Taupo'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 405 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.