Elevation of Waikouaiti, Otago, New Zealand

Waikouaiti, Otago, New Zealand is 18 m (59 ft) above sea level.

Waikouaiti's height from sea level is 18 metres, or 59 feet. GeoNames reads 101 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 352 m

Mean 54 m across the 8.7 km square centred on the town, 352 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

16th of 24

among the towns of Otago, and 196th of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

5 km to the S, at 7 m, 11 m lower.

Cross-section through Waikouaiti

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 Waikouaiti; the vertical scale is the same on both.

241-18WE24.4 km
West to east: from 223 m at 12 km west to 0 m at 12 km east.
241-18NS24.4 km
North to south: from 79 m at 12 km north to 0 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 51 km around Waikouaiti, 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 Waikouaiti

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Karitane 5 kmS 7 m (23 ft) −11 m
Palmerston 12.8 kmN 31 m (102 ft) +13 m
Warrington 14.1 kmSW 23 m (75 ft) +5 m
Waitati 18.6 kmSW 7 m (23 ft) −11 m
Hampden (Canterbury) 32.3 kmN 19 m (62 ft) +1 m

Where Waikouaiti is

Latitude -45.5955777, longitude 170.6703309. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Waikouaiti elevation: 18 m (59 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 Waikouaiti'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 101 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.