Elevation of Leicester, England, United Kingdom

Leicester, England, United Kingdom is 65 m (213 ft) above sea level.

Leicester's height from sea level is 65 metres, or 213 feet. GeoNames reads 65 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 67 m.

Also written: Caerlyr.

Ground within 4 km

51 m – 98 m

Mean 73 m across the 8.2 km square centred on the town, 47 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

348th of 797

among the towns of England, and 428th of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

Oadby

5.6 km to the SE, at 113 m, 48 m higher.

Cross-section through Leicester

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 Leicester; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 88 m at 12 km west to 139 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 70 m at 12 km north to 116 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 48 km around Leicester, 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 Leicester

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Oadby	5.6 km	SE	113 m (371 ft)	+48 m
Wigston	6 km	S	96 m (315 ft)	+31 m
Kirby Muxloe	6.4 km	W	85 m (279 ft)	+20 m
Mountsorrel	9.9 km	N	54 m (177 ft)	−11 m
Broughton Astley	13.3 km	SW	86 m (282 ft)	+21 m

Peaks and passes near Leicester

Bardon Hill, hill at 280 m (919 ft), 14.9 km to the NW — 215 m above the town.
Birch Hill, hill at 254 m (833 ft), 13.7 km to the NW — 189 m above the town.
Beacon Hill, hill at 248 m (814 ft), 12.5 km to the NW — 183 m above the town.

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

Where Leicester is

Latitude 52.6368778, longitude -1.1397592. 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 Leicester'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 65 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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.