Elevation of Carnoustie, Scotland, United Kingdom

Carnoustie, Scotland, United Kingdom is 17 m (56 ft) above sea level.

Carnoustie's height from sea level is 17 metres, or 56 feet. GeoNames reads 15 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 131 m

Mean 29 m across the 7.9 km square centred on the town, 131 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

71st of 101

among the towns of Scotland, and 777th of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

Arbroath

9.3 km to the NE, at 12 m, 5 m lower.

Cross-section through Carnoustie

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 22.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Carnoustie; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 97 m at 11 km west to 0 m at 11 km east.

North to south: from 70 m at 11 km north to 0 m at 11 km south.

Shaded relief of the 47 km around Carnoustie, 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 Carnoustie

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Arbroath	9.3 km	NE	12 m (39 ft)	−5 m
Dundee (Guyana)	17 km	W	23 m (75 ft)	+6 m
Dundee	17 km	W	23 m (75 ft)	+6 m
Saint Andrews	19 km	S	18 m (59 ft)	+1 m
Forfar	19.4 km	NW	65 m (213 ft)	+48 m

Peaks and passes near Carnoustie

Craigowl Hill, peak at 455 m (1,493 ft), 19.8 km to the W — 438 m above the town.
Auchterhouse Hill, hill at 424 m (1,391 ft), 21.9 km to the W — 407 m above the town.
Balkello Hill, hill at 397 m (1,302 ft), 21.1 km to the W — 380 m above the town.

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

Where Carnoustie is

Latitude 56.502565, longitude -2.70325. 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 Carnoustie'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 15 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.