Elevation of Eltham, Taranaki, New Zealand

Eltham, Taranaki, New Zealand is 218 m (715 ft) above sea level.

Eltham's height from sea level is 218 metres, or 715 feet. GeoNames reads 219 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 219 m.

Ground within 5 km

158 m – 292 m

Mean 223 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 134 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

3rd of 15

among the towns of Taranaki, and 40th of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

10.5 km to the N, at 309 m, 91 m higher.

Cross-section through Eltham

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Eltham; the vertical scale is the same on both.

32883WE25.5 km
West to east: from 271 m at 13 km west to 188 m at 13 km east.
32883NS25.5 km
North to south: from 311 m at 13 km north to 100 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 53 km around Eltham, 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 Eltham

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Stratford 10.5 kmN 309 m (1,014 ft) +91 m
Kaponga 12.8 kmW 274 m (899 ft) +56 m
Hawera 17.6 kmS 108 m (354 ft) −110 m
Meremere (Waikato) 18 kmSE 139 m (456 ft) −79 m
Manaia 19.9 kmSW 71 m (233 ft) −147 m

Peaks and passes near Eltham

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

Where Eltham is

Latitude -39.4304603, longitude 174.2993428. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Eltham elevation: 218 m (715 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 Eltham'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 219 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.