Elevation of Hereford, England, United Kingdom

Hereford, England, United Kingdom is 58 m (190 ft) above sea level.

Hereford's height from sea level is 58 metres, or 190 feet. GeoNames reads 61 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Henffordd.

Ground within 4 km

50 m – 125 m

Mean 72 m across the 8.2 km square centred on the town, 75 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

378th of 797

among the towns of England, and 462nd of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

18.2 km to the SE, at 47 m, 11 m lower.

Cross-section through Hereford

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 Hereford; the vertical scale is the same on both.

21735WE23.2 km
West to east: from 84 m at 12 km west to 165 m at 12 km east.
21735NS23.2 km
North to south: from 75 m at 12 km north to 87 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Hereford, 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 Hereford

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Ross-on-Wye 18.2 kmSE 47 m (154 ft) −11 m
Leominster 18.9 kmN 85 m (279 ft) +27 m
Great Malvern 27.3 kmE 160 m (525 ft) +102 m
Cinderford 29.6 kmSE 178 m (584 ft) +120 m
Coleford 29.9 kmS 189 m (620 ft) +131 m

Peaks and passes near Hereford

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

Where Hereford is

Latitude 52.056398, longitude -2.715974. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Hereford elevation: 58 m (190 ft) above sea level

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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 Hereford'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 61 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.