Elevation of Buckhaven, Scotland, United Kingdom

Buckhaven, Scotland, United Kingdom is 10 m (33 ft) above sea level.

Buckhaven's height from sea level is 10 metres, or 33 feet. GeoNames reads 28 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 26 m.

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 90 m

Mean 18 m across the 7.9 km square centred on the town, 90 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

80th of 101

among the towns of Scotland, and 873rd of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

Leven

3.2 km to the NE, at 9 m, 1 m lower.

Cross-section through Buckhaven

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 Buckhaven; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 54 m at 11 km west to 0 m at 11 km east.

North to south: from 58 m at 11 km north to 0 m at 11 km south.

Shaded relief of the 47 km around Buckhaven, 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 Buckhaven

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Leven	3.2 km	NE	9 m (30 ft)	−1 m
Glenrothes	8.5 km	W	82 m (269 ft)	+72 m
Cupar	16.3 km	N	31 m (102 ft)	+21 m
Cowdenbeath	20.4 km	W	132 m (433 ft)	+122 m
Saint Andrews	23.4 km	NE	18 m (59 ft)	+8 m

Peaks and passes near Buckhaven

West Lomond, hill at 522 m (1,713 ft), 18.2 km to the NW — 512 m above the town.
Bishop Hill, hill at 461 m (1,512 ft), 18.5 km to the W — 451 m above the town.
East Lomond, hill at 448 m (1,470 ft), 14 km to the NW — 438 m above the town.

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

Where Buckhaven is

Latitude 56.174501, longitude -3.030789. 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 Buckhaven'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 28 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.