Elevation of Ely, England, United Kingdom

Ely, England, United Kingdom is 17 m (56 ft) above sea level.

Ely's height from sea level is 17 metres, or 56 feet. GeoNames reads 21 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 24 m

Mean 6 m across the 8.2 km square centred on the town, 24 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

635th of 797

among the towns of England, and 777th of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

Soham

8.8 km to the SE, at 8 m, 9 m lower.

Cross-section through Ely

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Ely; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 21 m at 12 km west to 0 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 0 m at 12 km north to 2 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 49 km around Ely, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 49 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 Ely

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Soham	8.8 km	SE	8 m (26 ft)	−9 m
Chatteris	15.5 km	NW	9 m (30 ft)	−8 m
Lakenheath	17.7 km	E	6 m (20 ft)	−11 m
Mildenhall	18 km	E	11 m (36 ft)	−6 m
Newmarket	19.8 km	SE	31 m (102 ft)	+14 m

Peaks and passes near Ely

Haddenham village, hill at 39 m (128 ft), 8.9 km to the SW — 22 m above the town.

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

Where Ely is

Latitude 52.399539, longitude 0.262363. 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 Ely'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 21 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.