Elevation of Fairlie, Canterbury, New Zealand

Fairlie, Canterbury, New Zealand is 311 m (1,020 ft) above sea level.

Fairlie's height from sea level is 311 metres, or 1,020 feet. GeoNames reads 305 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

264 m – 410 m

Mean 329 m across the 8.8 km square centred on the town, 146 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

7th of 42

among the towns of Canterbury, and 24th of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

Pleasant Point

29.9 km to the SE, at 82 m, 229 m lower.

Cross-section through Fairlie

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Fairlie; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,000 m at 12 km west to 256 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 450 m at 12 km north to 319 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 52 km around Fairlie, 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 Fairlie

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Pleasant Point	29.9 km	SE	82 m (269 ft)	−229 m
Lake Tekapo	30 km	W	719 m (2,359 ft)	+408 m
Geraldine	33.1 km	E	124 m (407 ft)	−187 m
Temuka	39.3 km	SE	20 m (66 ft)	−291 m

Peaks and passes near Fairlie

Dobson Peak, hill at 2,095 m (6,873 ft), 23.3 km to the NW — 1,784 m above the town.

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

Where Fairlie is

Latitude -44.0991203, longitude 170.8291141. 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 Fairlie'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 305 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.