Elevation of Wanaka, Otago, New Zealand

Wanaka, Otago, New Zealand is 283 m (928 ft) above sea level.

Wanaka's height from sea level is 283 metres, or 928 feet. GeoNames reads 325 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 290 m.

Ground within 4 km

280 m – 1,045 m

Mean 387 m across the 8.7 km square centred on the town, 765 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

4th of 24

among the towns of Otago, and 29th of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

Arrowtown

35.8 km to the SW, at 466 m, 183 m higher.

Cross-section through Wanaka

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Wanaka; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 450 m at 12 km west to 343 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 576 m at 12 km north to 1,335 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 52 km around Wanaka, 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 Wanaka

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Arrowtown	35.8 km	SW	466 m (1,529 ft)	+183 m
Cromwell	37.9 km	S	213 m (699 ft)	−70 m

Peaks and passes near Wanaka

Roys Peak, peak at 1,578 m (5,177 ft), 6.4 km to the W — 1,295 m above the town.

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

Where Wanaka is

Latitude -44.6968866, longitude 169.1314258. 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 Wanaka'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 325 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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.