Elevation of Bangor, Wales, United Kingdom

Bangor, Wales, United Kingdom is 37 m (121 ft) above sea level.

Bangor's height from sea level is 37 metres, or 121 feet. GeoNames reads 23 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 158 m

Mean 65 m across the 8.2 km square centred on the town, 158 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

37th of 67

among the towns of Wales, and 596th of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

13.7 km to the SW, at 19 m, 18 m lower.

Cross-section through Bangor

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

316-24WE23 km
West to east: from 77 m at 12 km west to 141 m at 12 km east.
316-24NS23 km
North to south: from 0 m at 12 km north to 256 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 48 km around Bangor, 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 Bangor

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Caernarfon 13.7 kmSW 19 m (62 ft) −18 m
Deganwy-Llandudno Junction 21 kmE 5 m (16 ft) −32 m
Llandudno 22.8 kmNE 7 m (23 ft) −30 m
Colwyn Bay 27.7 kmE 27 m (89 ft) −10 m
Holyhead 34.7 kmW 5 m (16 ft) −32 m

Peaks and passes near Bangor

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

Where Bangor is

Latitude 53.22739, longitude -4.129263. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Bangor elevation: 37 m (121 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 Bangor'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 23 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.