Elevation of Livingston, Scotland, United Kingdom

Livingston, Scotland, United Kingdom is 152 m (499 ft) above sea level.

Livingston's height from sea level is 152 metres, or 499 feet. GeoNames reads 157 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 131 m.

Ground within 4 km

76 m – 199 m

Mean 140 m across the 8 km square centred on the town, 123 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

9th of 101

among the towns of Scotland, and 77th of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

2.2 km to the W, at 163 m, 11 m higher.

Cross-section through Livingston

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 22.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Livingston; the vertical scale is the same on both.

377-28WE22.4 km
West to east: from 138 m at 11 km west to 109 m at 11 km east.
377-28NS22.4 km
North to south: from 0 m at 11 km north to 349 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 47 km around Livingston, 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.

Towns near Livingston

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Linlithgow 2.2 kmW 163 m (535 ft) +11 m
Broxburn 4.9 kmNE 75 m (246 ft) −77 m
Bathgate 7.8 kmW 138 m (453 ft) −14 m
Whitburn 10.9 kmW 164 m (538 ft) +12 m
Armadale 11.5 kmW 179 m (587 ft) +27 m

Peaks and passes near Livingston

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

Where Livingston is

Latitude 55.900708, longitude -3.518068. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Livingston elevation: 152 m (499 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 Livingston'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 157 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.