Elevation of Cust, Canterbury, New Zealand

Cust, Canterbury, New Zealand is 136 m (446 ft) above sea level.

Cust's height from sea level is 136 metres, or 446 feet. GeoNames reads 138 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 138 m.

Ground within 4 km

98 m – 239 m

Mean 143 m across the 8.8 km square centred on the town, 141 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

14th of 42

among the towns of Canterbury, and 72nd of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

15.4 km to the W, at 236 m, 100 m higher.

Cross-section through Cust

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.8 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Cust; the vertical scale is the same on both.

28048WE24.8 km
West to east: from 197 m at 12 km west to 64 m at 12 km east.
28048NS24.8 km
North to south: from 264 m at 12 km north to 106 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 52 km around Cust, 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 Cust

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Oxford 15.4 kmW 236 m (774 ft) +100 m
Rangiora 17.2 kmE 32 m (105 ft) −104 m
Woodend 22.9 kmE 8 m (26 ft) −128 m
Kaiapoi 23.6 kmE 4 m (13 ft) −132 m
Sefton 23.8 kmE 20 m (66 ft) −116 m

Where Cust is

Latitude -43.3106768, longitude 172.3831034. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Cust elevation: 136 m (446 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 Cust'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 138 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.