Elevation of Durham, England, United Kingdom
Durham, England, United Kingdom is 78 m (256 ft) above sea level.
Durham's height from sea level is 78 metres, or 256 feet. GeoNames reads 52 m at the same point (SRTM).
Also written: Caerwear.
Ground within 4 km
Mean 82 m across the 8 km square centred on the town, 149 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Durham
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 22.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Durham; 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 Durham
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brandon | 3.8 km | SW | 90 m (295 ft) | +12 m |
| Spennymoor | 8.6 km | S | 119 m (390 ft) | +41 m |
| Chester-le-Street | 9.4 km | N | 21 m (69 ft) | −57 m |
| Ferryhill | 9.9 km | S | 150 m (492 ft) | +72 m |
| Hetton-le-Hole | 10.2 km | NE | 88 m (289 ft) | +10 m |
Peaks and passes near Durham
- Sand Edge Common, hill at 354 m (1,161 ft), 19.1 km to the W — 276 m above the town.
- Pontop Pike, hill at 312 m (1,024 ft), 15.8 km to the NW — 234 m above the town.
- Billy Hill, hill at 306 m (1,004 ft), 11.8 km to the W — 228 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Durham is
Latitude 54.77525, longitude -1.584852. 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 Durham'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 52 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.