Elevation of Thames, Waikato, New Zealand

Thames, Waikato, New Zealand is 4 m (13 ft) above sea level.

Thames's height from sea level is 4 metres, or 13 feet. GeoNames reads 6 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 533 m

Mean 101 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 533 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

40th of 41

among the towns of Waikato, and 273rd of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

Te Puru-Thornton Bay

10.5 km to the N, at 109 m, 105 m higher.

Cross-section through Thames

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.8 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Thames; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 0 m at 13 km west to 258 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 224 m at 13 km north to 6 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 54 km around Thames, 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 Thames

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Te Puru-Thornton Bay	10.5 km	N	109 m (358 ft)	+105 m
Ngatea	15.9 km	S	6 m (20 ft)	+2 m
Kerepehi	17.8 km	S	9 m (30 ft)	+5 m
Paeroa	29.5 km	SE	11 m (36 ft)	+7 m
Whangamata	30.2 km	E	10 m (33 ft)	+6 m

Where Thames is

Latitude -37.1384423, longitude 175.5413497. 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 Thames'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 6 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.