Elevation of Elgin, Scotland, United Kingdom

Elgin, Scotland, United Kingdom is 25 m (82 ft) above sea level.

Elgin's height from sea level is 25 metres, or 82 feet. GeoNames reads 20 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Eilginn.

Ground within 4 km

2 m – 105 m

Mean 31 m across the 7.8 km square centred on the town, 103 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

56th of 101

among the towns of Scotland, and 680th of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

Forres

18.5 km to the W, at 10 m, 15 m lower.

Cross-section through Elgin

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 22.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Elgin; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 34 m at 11 km west to 37 m at 11 km east.

North to south: from 0 m at 11 km north to 287 m at 11 km south.

Shaded relief of the 46 km around Elgin, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 46 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 Elgin

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Forres	18.5 km	W	10 m (33 ft)	−15 m
Nairn	33.5 km	W	10 m (33 ft)	−15 m

Peaks and passes near Elgin

Little Conval, hill at 553 m (1,814 ft), 25 km to the S — 528 m above the town.
Carn Kitty, hill at 522 m (1,713 ft), 23.7 km to the SW — 497 m above the town.
Carn Dearg, hill at 521 m (1,709 ft), 24.9 km to the SW — 496 m above the town.

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

Where Elgin is

Latitude 57.649454, longitude -3.318485. 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 Elgin'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 20 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.