Elevation of Caerphily, Wales, United Kingdom

Caerphily, Wales, United Kingdom is 85 m (279 ft) above sea level.

Caerphily's height from sea level is 85 metres, or 279 feet. GeoNames reads 94 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Caerffili.

Ground within 4 km

52 m – 324 m

Mean 162 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 272 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

27th of 67

among the towns of Wales, and 307th of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

Risca

8.8 km to the NE, at 68 m, 17 m lower.

Cross-section through Caerphily

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Caerphily; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 203 m at 12 km west to 61 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 245 m at 12 km north to 60 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 49 km around Caerphily, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 49 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 Caerphily

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Risca	8.8 km	NE	68 m (223 ft)	−17 m
Pontypridd	8.9 km	W	95 m (312 ft)	+10 m
Abercarn-Newbridge	9.5 km	NE	104 m (341 ft)	+19 m
Gelligaer	9.8 km	N	224 m (735 ft)	+139 m
Blackwood	10.1 km	N	182 m (597 ft)	+97 m

Peaks and passes near Caerphily

Coety Mountain, hill at 578 m (1,896 ft), 21.9 km to the N — 493 m above the town.
Cefn Coch, hill at 571 m (1,873 ft), 22.9 km to the N — 486 m above the town.
Graig Fawr, hill at 559 m (1,834 ft), 24.9 km to the W — 474 m above the town.

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

Where Caerphily is

Latitude 51.578829, longitude -3.218134. 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 Caerphily'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 94 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.