Elevation of Lincoln, England, United Kingdom

Lincoln, England, United Kingdom is 19 m (62 ft) above sea level.

Lincoln's height from sea level is 19 metres, or 62 feet. GeoNames reads 9 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 31 m.

Ground within 4 km

5 m – 75 m

Mean 34 m across the 8.2 km square centred on the town, 70 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

617th of 797

among the towns of England, and 751st of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

24.5 km to the NW, at 23 m, 4 m higher.

Cross-section through Lincoln

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Lincoln; the vertical scale is the same on both.

88-4WE23 km
West to east: from 10 m at 12 km west to 4 m at 12 km east.
88-4NS23 km
North to south: from 46 m at 12 km north to 54 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 48 km around Lincoln, 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 Lincoln

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Gainsborough 24.5 kmNW 23 m (75 ft) +4 m
Newark-on-Trent 24.7 kmSW 17 m (56 ft) −2 m
Sleaford 27.1 kmS 20 m (66 ft) +1 m
East Retford 28.7 kmW 19 m (62 ft) same
Boughton-Ollerton 32.1 kmW 42 m (138 ft) +23 m

Peaks and passes near Lincoln

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

Where Lincoln is

Latitude 53.230688, longitude -0.540579. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Lincoln elevation: 19 m (62 ft) above sea level

A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Lincoln'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 9 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.