Elevation of Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand

Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand is 13 m (43 ft) above sea level.

Timaru's height from sea level is 13 metres, or 43 feet. GeoNames reads 14 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 55 m

Mean 13 m across the 8.7 km square centred on the town, 55 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

37th of 42

among the towns of Canterbury, and 222nd of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

Pareora

10.7 km to the S, at 10 m, 3 m lower.

Cross-section through Timaru

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Timaru; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 152 m at 12 km west to 0 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 25 m at 12 km north to 0 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 52 km around Timaru, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 52 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 Timaru

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Pareora	10.7 km	S	10 m (33 ft)	−3 m
Temuka	17 km	N	20 m (66 ft)	+7 m
Pleasant Point	18.2 km	NW	82 m (269 ft)	+69 m
Geraldine	34 km	N	124 m (407 ft)	+111 m

Where Timaru is

Latitude -44.3969718, longitude 171.2549729. 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 Timaru'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 14 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.