Elevation of Broxburn, Scotland, United Kingdom

Broxburn, Scotland, United Kingdom is 75 m (246 ft) above sea level.

Broxburn's height from sea level is 75 metres, or 246 feet. GeoNames reads 70 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

44 m – 146 m

Mean 93 m across the 8 km square centred on the town, 102 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

29th of 101

among the towns of Scotland, and 367th of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

4.9 km to the SW, at 152 m, 77 m higher.

Cross-section through Broxburn

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 Broxburn; the vertical scale is the same on both.

339-26WE22.4 km
West to east: from 210 m at 11 km west to 50 m at 11 km east.
339-26NS22.4 km
North to south: from 42 m at 11 km north to 313 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 47 km around Broxburn, 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 Broxburn

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Livingston 4.9 kmSW 152 m (499 ft) +77 m
Linlithgow 6 kmSW 163 m (535 ft) +88 m
Queensferry 7.5 kmNE 34 m (112 ft) −41 m
Bathgate 11.5 kmW 138 m (453 ft) +63 m
Rosyth 11.7 kmN 25 m (82 ft) −50 m

Peaks and passes near Broxburn

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

Where Broxburn is

Latitude 55.934161, longitude -3.467681. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Broxburn elevation: 75 m (246 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 Broxburn'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 70 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.