Elevation of King's Lynn, England, United Kingdom

King's Lynn, England, United Kingdom is 6 m (20 ft) above sea level.

King's Lynn's height from sea level is 6 metres, or 20 feet. GeoNames reads 10 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Lynn Kings Lynn Bishop's Lynn Lynn Regis.

Ground within 4 km

2 m – 21 m

Mean 6 m across the 8.2 km square centred on the town, 19 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

31 km to the SW, at 5 m, 1 m lower.

Cross-section through King's Lynn

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is King's Lynn; the vertical scale is the same on both.

43-17WE23.1 km
West to east: from 4 m at 12 km west to 12 m at 12 km east.
43-17NS23.1 km
North to south: from 0 m at 12 km north to 26 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 48 km around King's Lynn, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 48 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 King's Lynn

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
March 31 kmSW 5 m (16 ft) −1 m
Spalding 36.8 kmW 7 m (23 ft) +1 m
East Dereham 37.2 kmE 47 m (154 ft) +41 m
Boston 37.8 kmNW 6 m (20 ft) same
Wisbech 38.9 kmW 3 m (10 ft) −3 m

Peaks and passes near King's Lynn

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

Where King's Lynn is

Latitude 52.75649, longitude 0.4001739. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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King's Lynn elevation: 6 m (20 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 King's Lynn'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 10 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.