Elevation of Gateshead, England, United Kingdom
Gateshead, England, United Kingdom is 75 m (246 ft) above sea level.
Gateshead's height from sea level is 75 metres, or 246 feet. GeoNames reads 53 m at the same point (SRTM).
Ground within 4 km
Mean 63 m across the 8 km square centred on the town, 153 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Gateshead
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 22.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Gateshead; 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 Gateshead
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Felling | 2.5 km | E | 40 m (131 ft) | −35 m |
| Newcastle upon Tyne | 3 km | N | 67 m (220 ft) | −8 m |
| Whickham | 4.6 km | W | 108 m (354 ft) | +33 m |
| Hebburn | 5.6 km | NE | 41 m (135 ft) | −34 m |
| Gosforth | 6.2 km | N | 68 m (223 ft) | −7 m |
Peaks and passes near Gateshead
- Pontop Pike, hill at 312 m (1,024 ft), 14 km to the SW — 237 m above the town.
- Greymare Hill, hill at 293 m (961 ft), 22 km to the W — 218 m above the town.
- Cornsay Hill, hill at 279 m (915 ft), 22.1 km to the SW — 204 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Gateshead is
Latitude 54.95268, longitude -1.603411. 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 Gateshead'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 53 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.