Elevation of Wanganui, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand

Wanganui, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand is 14 m (46 ft) above sea level.

Wanganui's height from sea level is 14 metres, or 46 feet. GeoNames reads 18 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 129 m

Mean 40 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 129 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

25th of 26

among the towns of Manawatu-Wanganui, and 218th of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

Ratana

16.5 km to the SE, at 54 m, 40 m higher.

Cross-section through Wanganui

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Wanganui; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 0 m at 13 km west to 111 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 194 m at 13 km north to 0 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 53 km around Wanganui, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 53 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 Wanganui

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Ratana	16.5 km	SE	54 m (177 ft)	+40 m
Te Kopuru (Northland)	29 km	N	352 m (1,155 ft)	+338 m
Marton	32 km	SE	152 m (499 ft)	+138 m
Bulls	39.5 km	SE	58 m (190 ft)	+44 m

Where Wanganui is

Latitude -39.9300887, longitude 175.0478901. 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 Wanganui'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 18 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.