Elevation of Woodend, Canterbury, New Zealand

Woodend, Canterbury, New Zealand is 8 m (26 ft) above sea level.

Woodend's height from sea level is 8 metres, or 26 feet. GeoNames reads 13 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

1 m – 28 m

Mean 9 m across the 8.8 km square centred on the town, 27 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

39th of 42

among the towns of Canterbury, and 250th of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

3.8 km to the NE, at 7 m, 1 m lower.

Cross-section through Woodend

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 Woodend; the vertical scale is the same on both.

80-6WE24.8 km
West to east: from 44 m at 12 km west to 0 m at 12 km east.
80-6NS24.8 km
North to south: from 74 m at 12 km north to 6 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 52 km around Woodend, 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 Woodend

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Waikuku 3.8 kmNE 7 m (23 ft) −1 m
Rangiora 6.2 kmNW 32 m (105 ft) +24 m
Kaiapoi 6.4 kmS 4 m (13 ft) −4 m
Sefton 8.4 kmN 20 m (66 ft) +12 m
Amberley 19.5 kmN 46 m (151 ft) +38 m

Where Woodend is

Latitude -43.3255387, longitude 172.6658833. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Woodend elevation: 8 m (26 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 Woodend'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 13 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.