Elevation of Waitakere, Auckland, New Zealand

Waitakere, Auckland, New Zealand is 77 m (253 ft) above sea level.

Waitakere's height from sea level is 77 metres, or 253 feet. GeoNames reads 83 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Waitemata Western Auckland.

Ground within 5 km

29 m – 305 m

Mean 104 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 276 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

3rd of 14

among the towns of Auckland, and 99th of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

Muriwai Beach

9.8 km to the W, at 141 m, 64 m higher.

Cross-section through Waitakere

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Waitakere; the vertical scale is the same on both.

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

North to south: from 64 m at 13 km north to 286 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 54 km around Waitakere, 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 Waitakere

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Muriwai Beach	9.8 km	W	141 m (463 ft)	+64 m
Auckland	19.6 km	E	27 m (89 ft)	−50 m
Helensville	20.9 km	NW	32 m (105 ft)	−45 m
North Shore	21.3 km	E	23 m (75 ft)	−54 m
Parakai	23.6 km	NW	5 m (16 ft)	−72 m

Peaks and passes near Waitakere

Mount Eden, hill at 196 m (643 ft), 20 km to the E — 119 m above the town.
One Tree Hill, hill at 182 m (597 ft), 22.1 km to the E — 105 m above the town.
Mount Albert, peak at 135 m (443 ft), 15.9 km to the E — 58 m above the town.

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

Where Waitakere is

Latitude -36.8504238, longitude 174.5425402. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Waitakere'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 83 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.