Elevation of Airdrie, Scotland, United Kingdom

Airdrie, Scotland, United Kingdom is 140 m (459 ft) above sea level.

Airdrie's height from sea level is 140 metres, or 459 feet. GeoNames reads 130 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 130 m.

Also written: An Àrd Ruigh.

Ground within 4 km

75 m – 215 m

Mean 149 m across the 8 km square centred on the town, 140 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

11th of 101

among the towns of Scotland, and 104th of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

3.6 km to the W, at 98 m, 42 m lower.

Cross-section through Airdrie

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 22.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Airdrie; the vertical scale is the same on both.

29616WE22.4 km
West to east: from 78 m at 11 km west to 255 m at 11 km east.
29616NS22.4 km
North to south: from 60 m at 11 km north to 108 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 47 km around Airdrie, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 47 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 Airdrie

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Coatbridge 3.6 kmW 98 m (322 ft) −42 m
Bellshill 6.8 kmSW 74 m (243 ft) −66 m
Viewpark 7.5 kmSW 70 m (230 ft) −70 m
Motherwell 8.5 kmS 78 m (256 ft) −62 m
Cumbernauld 9 kmN 132 m (433 ft) −8 m

Peaks and passes near Airdrie

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

Where Airdrie is

Latitude 55.866267, longitude -3.962566. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Airdrie elevation: 140 m (459 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 Airdrie'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 130 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.