Elevation of Colwyn Bay, Wales, United Kingdom
Colwyn Bay, Wales, United Kingdom is 27 m (89 ft) above sea level.
Colwyn Bay's height from sea level is 27 metres, or 89 feet. GeoNames reads 25 m at the same point (SRTM).
Also written: Bae Colwyn.
Ground within 4 km
Mean 79 m across the 8.2 km square centred on the town, 305 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Colwyn Bay
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Colwyn Bay; 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 Colwyn Bay
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deganwy-Llandudno Junction | 7.1 km | W | 5 m (16 ft) | −22 m |
| Llandudno | 7.5 km | NW | 7 m (23 ft) | −20 m |
| Abergele | 9.8 km | E | 11 m (36 ft) | −16 m |
| Rhyl | 15.9 km | E | 8 m (26 ft) | −19 m |
| Prestatyn | 21.8 km | E | 8 m (26 ft) | −19 m |
Peaks and passes near Colwyn Bay
- Carnedd Llewelyn, peak at 1,064 m (3,491 ft), 21.9 km to the SW — 1,037 m above the town.
- Carnedd Dafydd, peak at 1,044 m (3,425 ft), 24.3 km to the SW — 1,017 m above the town.
- Foel Grach, hill at 975 m (3,199 ft), 20.5 km to the SW — 948 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Colwyn Bay is
Latitude 53.293182, longitude -3.72764. 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 Colwyn Bay'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 25 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.