Elevation of Hanmer Springs, Canterbury, New Zealand

Hanmer Springs, Canterbury, New Zealand is 352 m (1,155 ft) above sea level.

Hanmer Springs's height from sea level is 352 metres, or 1,155 feet. GeoNames reads 391 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 338 m.

Ground within 4 km

298 m – 1,072 m

Mean 460 m across the 8.9 km square centred on the town, 774 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

5th of 42

among the towns of Canterbury, and 18th of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

22.5 km to the SE, at 139 m, 213 m lower.

Cross-section through Hanmer Springs

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Hanmer Springs; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,271264WE25 km
West to east: from 692 m at 13 km west to 674 m at 13 km east.
1,271264NS25 km
North to south: from 891 m at 13 km north to 432 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 52 km around Hanmer Springs, 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 Hanmer Springs

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Waiau 22.5 kmSE 139 m (456 ft) −213 m
Culverden 27.4 kmS 183 m (600 ft) −169 m

Where Hanmer Springs is

Latitude -42.5262427, longitude 172.8288246. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Hanmer Springs elevation: 352 m (1,155 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 Hanmer Springs'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 391 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.