Elevation of Whitianga, Waikato, New Zealand

Whitianga, Waikato, New Zealand is 1 m (3 ft) above sea level.

Whitianga's height from sea level is 1 metres, or 3 feet. GeoNames reads 8 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 242 m

Mean 58 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 242 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

41st of 41

among the towns of Waikato, and 276th of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

19.2 km to the W, at 7 m, 6 m higher.

Cross-section through Whitianga

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 Whitianga; the vertical scale is the same on both.

385-29WE25.9 km
West to east: from 285 m at 13 km west to 0 m at 13 km east.
385-29NS25.9 km
North to south: from 0 m at 13 km north to 70 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 54 km around Whitianga, 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 Whitianga

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Coromandel 19.2 kmW 7 m (23 ft) +6 m
Orewa (Auckland) 22.6 kmW 14 m (46 ft) +13 m
Tairua 23.5 kmSE 19 m (62 ft) +18 m
Pauanui Beach 26.5 kmSE 13 m (43 ft) +12 m
Te Puru-Thornton Bay 29.1 kmSW 109 m (358 ft) +108 m

Peaks and passes near Whitianga

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

Where Whitianga is

Latitude -36.8218293, longitude 175.7004402. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Whitianga elevation: 1 m (3 ft) above sea level

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 Whitianga'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.