Elevation of Canterbury, England, United Kingdom
Canterbury, England, United Kingdom is 15 m (49 ft) above sea level.
Canterbury's height from sea level is 15 metres, or 49 feet. GeoNames reads 19 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 3 m.
Also written: Caergaint.
Ground within 4 km
Mean 52 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 98 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Canterbury
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Canterbury; 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 Canterbury
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whitstable | 9.8 km | NW | 1 m (3 ft) | −14 m |
| Herne Bay | 10.6 km | N | 8 m (26 ft) | −7 m |
| Faversham | 13.8 km | W | 17 m (56 ft) | +2 m |
| Minster | 17.5 km | E | 22 m (72 ft) | +7 m |
| Ashford | 20.6 km | SW | 39 m (128 ft) | +24 m |
Peaks and passes near Canterbury
- Cheriton Hill, hill at 188 m (617 ft), 18.9 km to the S — 173 m above the town.
- West Down, hill at 186 m (610 ft), 13.9 km to the SW — 171 m above the town.
- Tolsford Hill, hill at 183 m (600 ft), 19.3 km to the S — 168 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Canterbury is
Latitude 51.280233, longitude 1.0789089. 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 Canterbury'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 19 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.