Elevation of Derby, England, United Kingdom

Derby, England, United Kingdom is 54 m (177 ft) above sea level.

Derby's height from sea level is 54 metres, or 177 feet. GeoNames reads 55 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

42 m – 130 m

Mean 66 m across the 8.2 km square centred on the town, 88 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

401st of 797

among the towns of England, and 489th of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

9.2 km to the S, at 68 m, 14 m higher.

Cross-section through Derby

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Derby; the vertical scale is the same on both.

16829WE23 km
West to east: from 83 m at 12 km west to 103 m at 12 km east.
16829NS23 km
North to south: from 154 m at 12 km north to 104 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 48 km around Derby, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 48 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 Derby

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Ingleby 9.2 kmS 68 m (223 ft) +14 m
Risley 10.6 kmE 56 m (184 ft) +2 m
Belper 11.3 kmN 93 m (305 ft) +39 m
Ilkeston 12.4 kmNE 82 m (269 ft) +28 m
Heanor 13 kmNE 117 m (384 ft) +63 m

Peaks and passes near Derby

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

Where Derby is

Latitude 52.9225301, longitude -1.4746186. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Derby elevation: 54 m (177 ft) above sea level

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 Derby'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 55 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.