Elevation of Ipswich, England, United Kingdom

Ipswich, England, United Kingdom is 6 m (20 ft) above sea level.

Ipswich's height from sea level is 6 metres, or 20 feet. GeoNames reads 18 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 51 m

Mean 28 m across the 8.2 km square centred on the town, 51 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

756th of 797

among the towns of England, and 942nd of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

Woodbridge

12 km to the E, at 25 m, 19 m higher.

Cross-section through Ipswich

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 Ipswich; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 57 m at 12 km west to 27 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 64 m at 12 km north to 26 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 49 km around Ipswich, 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 Ipswich

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Woodbridge	12 km	E	25 m (82 ft)	+19 m
Harwich	15.6 km	SE	11 m (36 ft)	+5 m
Felixtowe	17.5 km	SE	16 m (52 ft)	+10 m
Stowmarket	17.9 km	NW	37 m (121 ft)	+31 m
Frinton and Walton	25 km	S	21 m (69 ft)	+15 m

Peaks and passes near Ipswich

Wattisham Airfield, hill at 92 m (302 ft), 14.6 km to the NW — 86 m above the town.

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

Where Ipswich is

Latitude 52.056736, longitude 1.14822. 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 Ipswich'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 18 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.