Elevation of Burnley, England, United Kingdom
Burnley, England, United Kingdom is 151 m (495 ft) above sea level.
Burnley's height from sea level is 151 metres, or 495 feet. GeoNames reads 140 m at the same point (SRTM).
Ground within 4 km
Mean 200 m across the 8.1 km square centred on the town, 287 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Burnley
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 22.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Burnley; 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 Burnley
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brierfield | 3.8 km | N | 148 m (486 ft) | −3 m |
| Padiham | 4.2 km | W | 102 m (335 ft) | −49 m |
| Nelson | 5.6 km | NE | 131 m (430 ft) | −20 m |
| Accrington | 8.7 km | SW | 141 m (463 ft) | −10 m |
| Colne | 9 km | NE | 154 m (505 ft) | +3 m |
Peaks and passes near Burnley
- Pendle Hill, hill at 557 m (1,827 ft), 9.3 km to the N — 406 m above the town.
- Boulsworth Hill, hill at 517 m (1,696 ft), 10.2 km to the E — 366 m above the town.
- Moss Moor, hill at 482 m (1,581 ft), 24.9 km to the SE — 331 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Burnley is
Latitude 53.789397, longitude -2.255003. 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 Burnley'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 140 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.