Elevation of Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom is 16 m (52 ft) above sea level.

Cardiff's height from sea level is 16 metres, or 52 feet. GeoNames reads 17 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 41 m.

Also written: Caerdydd.

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 93 m

Mean 22 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 93 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

51st of 67

among the towns of Wales, and 797th of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

Penarth

4.8 km to the S, at 43 m, 27 m higher.

Cross-section through Cardiff

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 Cardiff; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 36 m at 12 km west to 0 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 253 m at 12 km north to 0 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 49 km around Cardiff, 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 Cardiff

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Penarth	4.8 km	S	43 m (141 ft)	+27 m
Caerphily	11.1 km	N	85 m (279 ft)	+69 m
Barry	11.6 km	SW	9 m (30 ft)	−7 m
Llantrisant-Pontyclun	15 km	NW	81 m (266 ft)	+65 m
Risca	15.4 km	N	68 m (223 ft)	+52 m

Peaks and passes near Cardiff

Mynydd Twyn-glas, hill at 472 m (1,549 ft), 22.7 km to the N — 456 m above the town.
Twmbarlwm, hill at 419 m (1,375 ft), 17.2 km to the N — 403 m above the town.
Mynydd Pen-y-graig, hill at 416 m (1,365 ft), 24.1 km to the NW — 400 m above the town.

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

Where Cardiff is

Latitude 51.481581, longitude -3.17909. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Cardiff'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 17 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.