Elevation of Musselburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Musselburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom is 5 m (16 ft) above sea level.

Musselburgh's height from sea level is 5 metres, or 16 feet. GeoNames reads 9 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Baile nam Feusgan.

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 124 m

Mean 21 m across the 8 km square centred on the town, 124 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

97th of 101

among the towns of Scotland, and 955th of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

Dalkeith

5.5 km to the S, at 51 m, 46 m higher.

Cross-section through Musselburgh

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 Musselburgh; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 71 m at 11 km west to 87 m at 11 km east.

North to south: from 0 m at 11 km north to 197 m at 11 km south.

Shaded relief of the 47 km around Musselburgh, 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 Musselburgh

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Dalkeith	5.5 km	S	51 m (167 ft)	+46 m
Tranent	6.2 km	E	85 m (279 ft)	+80 m
Mayfield	7.9 km	S	163 m (535 ft)	+158 m
Bonnyrigg	8.1 km	SW	102 m (335 ft)	+97 m
Edinburgh	8.5 km	W	66 m (217 ft)	+61 m

Peaks and passes near Musselburgh

Blackhope Scar, hill at 651 m (2,136 ft), 24.4 km to the S — 646 m above the town.
Dundreich, hill at 623 m (2,044 ft), 24.4 km to the S — 618 m above the town.
Jeffries Corse North Top, hill at 613 m (2,011 ft), 23.8 km to the S — 608 m above the town.

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

Where Musselburgh is

Latitude 55.941941, longitude -3.053918. 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 Musselburgh'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.