Elevation of Herne Bay, England, United Kingdom

Herne Bay, England, United Kingdom is 8 m (26 ft) above sea level.

Herne Bay's height from sea level is 8 metres, or 26 feet. GeoNames reads 1 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 61 m

Mean 16 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 61 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

731st of 797

among the towns of England, and 906th of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

7.3 km to the W, at 1 m, 7 m lower.

Cross-section through Herne Bay

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Herne Bay; the vertical scale is the same on both.

55-5WE23.4 km
West to east: from 0 m at 12 km west to 2 m at 12 km east.
55-5NS23.4 km
North to south: from 0 m at 12 km north to 36 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Herne Bay, 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 Herne Bay

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Whitstable 7.3 kmW 1 m (3 ft) −7 m
Canterbury 10.6 kmS 15 m (49 ft) +7 m
Minster 13.5 kmE 22 m (72 ft) +14 m
Faversham 17.7 kmW 17 m (56 ft) +9 m
Margate 18.1 kmE 18 m (59 ft) +10 m

Peaks and passes near Herne Bay

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

Where Herne Bay is

Latitude 51.370922, longitude 1.127771. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Herne Bay elevation: 8 m (26 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 Herne Bay'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 1 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.