Elevation of Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom is 122 m (400 ft) above sea level.
Birmingham's height from sea level is 122 metres, or 400 feet. GeoNames reads 149 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 140 m.
Ground within 4 km
Mean 121 m across the 8.2 km square centred on the town, 69 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Birmingham
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Birmingham; the vertical scale is the same on both.
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 Birmingham
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Bromwich | 7.9 km | NW | 166 m (545 ft) | +44 m |
| Oldbury-Smethwick | 8.7 km | W | 145 m (476 ft) | +23 m |
| Sutton Coldfield | 10.4 km | NE | 132 m (433 ft) | +10 m |
| Solihull | 11.3 km | SE | 131 m (430 ft) | +9 m |
| Halesowen | 11.6 km | W | 144 m (472 ft) | +22 m |
Peaks and passes near Birmingham
- Walton Hill, hill at 316 m (1,037 ft), 15.4 km to the SW — 194 m above the town.
- The Four Stones, hill at 309 m (1,014 ft), 15.5 km to the SW — 187 m above the town.
- Beacon Hill, hill at 298 m (978 ft), 14.5 km to the SW — 176 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Birmingham is
Latitude 52.486243, longitude -1.890401. 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 Birmingham'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 149 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.