Elevation of Lincoln, Canterbury, New Zealand

Lincoln, Canterbury, New Zealand is 17 m (56 ft) above sea level.

Lincoln's height from sea level is 17 metres, or 56 feet. GeoNames reads 8 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 10 m.

Ground within 4 km

4 m – 36 m

Mean 15 m across the 8.8 km square centred on the town, 32 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

34th of 42

among the towns of Canterbury, and 200th of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

5.7 km to the SE, at 8 m, 9 m lower.

Cross-section through Lincoln

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 Lincoln; the vertical scale is the same on both.

342-26WE24.8 km
West to east: from 38 m at 12 km west to 316 m at 12 km east.
342-26NS24.8 km
North to south: from 48 m at 12 km north to 0 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 52 km around Lincoln, 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 Lincoln

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Taitapu 5.7 kmSE 8 m (26 ft) −9 m
Rolleston 10.1 kmNW 59 m (194 ft) +42 m
Burnham 14.6 kmW 63 m (207 ft) +46 m
Christchurch 17.2 kmNE 14 m (46 ft) −3 m
Lyttelton 19.4 kmE 18 m (59 ft) +1 m

Peaks and passes near Lincoln

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

Where Lincoln is

Latitude -43.6400869, longitude 172.4842487. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Lincoln elevation: 17 m (56 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 Lincoln'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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.