Elevation of Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom

Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom is 15 m (49 ft) above sea level.

Aberdeen's height from sea level is 15 metres, or 49 feet. GeoNames reads 13 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Obar Dheadhain Aiberdeen.

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 98 m

Mean 34 m across the 7.9 km square centred on the town, 98 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

74th of 101

among the towns of Scotland, and 806th of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

Westhill

11 km to the W, at 134 m, 119 m higher.

Cross-section through Aberdeen

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 22.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Aberdeen; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 156 m at 11 km west to 0 m at 11 km east.

North to south: from 87 m at 11 km north to 0 m at 11 km south.

Shaded relief of the 47 km around Aberdeen, 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 Aberdeen

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Westhill	11 km	W	134 m (440 ft)	+119 m
Stonehaven	21.8 km	S	22 m (72 ft)	+7 m
Inverurie	22.5 km	NW	57 m (187 ft)	+42 m
Ellon	23.9 km	N	21 m (69 ft)	+6 m

Peaks and passes near Aberdeen

Greymore, hill at 394 m (1,293 ft), 23.5 km to the W — 379 m above the town.
Cairn-mon-earn, peak at 378 m (1,240 ft), 21.7 km to the SW — 363 m above the town.
Mongour, hill at 376 m (1,234 ft), 24.9 km to the SW — 361 m above the town.

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

Where Aberdeen is

Latitude 57.149717, longitude -2.094278. 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 Aberdeen'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 13 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.