Elevation of Hamilton, Scotland, United Kingdom

Hamilton, Scotland, United Kingdom is 67 m (220 ft) above sea level.

Hamilton's height from sea level is 67 metres, or 220 feet. GeoNames reads 68 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

23 m – 225 m

Mean 91 m across the 8 km square centred on the town, 202 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

35th of 101

among the towns of Scotland, and 413th of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

3.1 km to the NW, at 66 m, 1 m lower.

Cross-section through Hamilton

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 Hamilton; the vertical scale is the same on both.

24011WE22.5 km
West to east: from 174 m at 11 km west to 119 m at 11 km east.
24011NS22.5 km
North to south: from 87 m at 11 km north to 196 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 47 km around Hamilton, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 47 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 Hamilton

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Blantyre 3.1 kmNW 66 m (217 ft) −1 m
Motherwell 3.8 kmNE 78 m (256 ft) +11 m
Bellshill 4.7 kmN 74 m (243 ft) +7 m
Viewpark 5.7 kmN 70 m (230 ft) +3 m
Larkhall 6.8 kmSE 110 m (361 ft) +43 m

Peaks and passes near Hamilton

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

Where Hamilton is

Latitude 55.777633, longitude -4.053679. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Hamilton elevation: 67 m (220 ft) above sea level

A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Hamilton'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 68 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.