Elevation of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, United Kingdom
Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, United Kingdom is 177 m (581 ft) above sea level.
Merthyr Tydfil's height from sea level is 177 metres, or 581 feet. GeoNames reads 186 m at the same point (SRTM).
Ground within 4 km
Mean 303 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 386 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Merthyr Tydfil
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Merthyr Tydfil; the vertical scale is the same on both.
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 Merthyr Tydfil
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aberdare | 6 km | SW | 161 m (528 ft) | −16 m |
| Tredegar | 9.7 km | E | 320 m (1,050 ft) | +143 m |
| Treharris-Nelson | 10.7 km | SE | 141 m (463 ft) | −36 m |
| Mountain Ash-Abercynon | 11.8 km | S | 99 m (325 ft) | −78 m |
| Ebbw Vale | 12.5 km | E | 293 m (961 ft) | +116 m |
Peaks and passes near Merthyr Tydfil
- Pen y Fan, peak at 886 m (2,907 ft), 15.5 km to the N — 709 m above the town.
- Corn Du, hill at 872 m (2,861 ft), 15.4 km to the N — 695 m above the town.
- Craig Gwaun Taf, hill at 826 m (2,710 ft), 14.8 km to the N — 649 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Merthyr Tydfil is
Latitude 51.74873, longitude -3.381646. 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 Merthyr Tydfil'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 186 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.