Elevation of Waiau, Canterbury, New Zealand

Waiau, Canterbury, New Zealand is 139 m (456 ft) above sea level.

Waiau's height from sea level is 139 metres, or 456 feet. GeoNames reads 146 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

115 m – 337 m

Mean 180 m across the 8.9 km square centred on the town, 222 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

13th of 42

among the towns of Canterbury, and 69th of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

Culverden

20.3 km to the SW, at 183 m, 44 m higher.

Cross-section through Waiau

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Waiau; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 195 m at 13 km west to 254 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 463 m at 13 km north to 594 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 52 km around Waiau, 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 Waiau

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Culverden	20.3 km	SW	183 m (600 ft)	+44 m
Hanmer Springs	22.5 km	NW	352 m (1,155 ft)	+213 m
Cheviot	25.8 km	SE	63 m (207 ft)	−76 m

Where Waiau is

Latitude -42.6557141, longitude 173.039709. 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 Waiau'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 146 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.