Elevation of Waitara, Taranaki, New Zealand

Waitara, Taranaki, New Zealand is 9 m (30 ft) above sea level.

Waitara's height from sea level is 9 metres, or 30 feet. GeoNames reads 8 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 91 m

Mean 29 m across the 9.1 km square centred on the town, 91 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

15th of 15

among the towns of Taranaki, and 240th of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

Urenui

13.1 km to the E, at 39 m, 30 m higher.

Cross-section through Waitara

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Waitara; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 0 m at 13 km west to 38 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 0 m at 13 km north to 190 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 54 km around Waitara, 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 Waitara

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Urenui	13.1 km	E	39 m (128 ft)	+30 m
New Plymouth	15.3 km	SW	17 m (56 ft)	+8 m
Inglewood	17.4 km	S	203 m (666 ft)	+194 m
Egmont Village	17.9 km	SW	206 m (676 ft)	+197 m
Okato	37.5 km	SW	104 m (341 ft)	+95 m

Where Waitara is

Latitude -39.0010938, longitude 174.2376652. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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<a href="https://www.altitude-maps.com/city/153_256,Waitara,Taranaki,New+Zealand"><img src="https://www.altitude-maps.com/embed/153_256.svg" width="240" height="60" alt="Waitara elevation: 9 m (30 ft) above sea level"></a>

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 Waitara'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 8 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.