Elevation of Kirkcaldy, Scotland, United Kingdom

Kirkcaldy, Scotland, United Kingdom is 506 m (1,660 ft) above sea level.

Kirkcaldy's height from sea level is 506 metres, or 1,660 feet.

Ground within 4 km

339 m – 696 m

Mean 492 m across the 7.9 km square centred on the town, 357 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 101

among the towns of Scotland, and 1st of 997 in United Kingdom.

Cross-section through Kirkcaldy

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 22.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Kirkcaldy; the vertical scale is the same on both.

754227WE22.2 km
West to east: from 624 m at 11 km west to 471 m at 11 km east.
754227NS22.2 km
North to south: from 717 m at 11 km north to 387 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 47 km around Kirkcaldy, 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.

Peaks and passes near Kirkcaldy

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

Where Kirkcaldy is

Latitude 57.14, longitude -3.16. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Kirkcaldy elevation: 506 m (1,660 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 Kirkcaldy'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.