Elevation of Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom

Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom is 23 m (75 ft) above sea level.

Dundee's height from sea level is 23 metres, or 75 feet. GeoNames reads 77 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 18 m.

Also written: Dùn Dèagh.

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 148 m

Mean 54 m across the 7.9 km square centred on the town, 148 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

59th of 101

among the towns of Scotland, and 703rd of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

0 km to the N, at 23 m, the same elevation.

Cross-section through Dundee

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 Dundee; the vertical scale is the same on both.

303-23WE22.3 km
West to east: from 34 m at 11 km west to 0 m at 11 km east.
303-23NS22.3 km
North to south: from 194 m at 11 km north to 59 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 47 km around Dundee, 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 Dundee

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Dundee (Guyana) 0 kmN 23 m (75 ft) same
Cupar 16 kmS 31 m (102 ft) +8 m
Carnoustie 17 kmE 17 m (56 ft) −6 m
Saint Andrews 17.4 kmSE 18 m (59 ft) −5 m
Forfar 20.8 kmN 65 m (213 ft) +42 m

Peaks and passes near Dundee

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

Where Dundee is

Latitude 56.462018, longitude -2.970721. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Dundee elevation: 23 m (75 ft) above sea level

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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 Dundee'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 77 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.