Elevation of Giffnock, Scotland, United Kingdom
Giffnock, Scotland, United Kingdom is 45 m (148 ft) above sea level.
Giffnock's height from sea level is 45 metres, or 148 feet. GeoNames reads 45 m at the same point (SRTM).
Ground within 4 km
Mean 64 m across the 8 km square centred on the town, 153 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Giffnock
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 22.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Giffnock; 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 Giffnock
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clarkston | 2.1 km | SE | 93 m (305 ft) | +48 m |
| Newton Mearns | 4.1 km | SW | 138 m (453 ft) | +93 m |
| Rutherglen | 5.5 km | NE | 18 m (59 ft) | −27 m |
| Barrhead | 6.4 km | W | 67 m (220 ft) | +22 m |
| Glasgow (Guyana) | 7.6 km | N | 31 m (102 ft) | −14 m |
Peaks and passes near Giffnock
- Holehead, hill at 552 m (1,811 ft), 24.7 km to the N — 507 m above the town.
- Lecket Hill, hill at 547 m (1,795 ft), 23.9 km to the N — 502 m above the town.
- Clachertyfarlie Knowes, hill at 547 m (1,795 ft), 24.7 km to the N — 502 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Giffnock is
Latitude 55.800047, longitude -4.295033. 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 Giffnock'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 45 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.