Elevation of Nairn, Scotland, United Kingdom

Nairn, Scotland, United Kingdom is 10 m (33 ft) above sea level.

Nairn's height from sea level is 10 metres, or 33 feet. GeoNames reads 20 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 124 m

Mean 17 m across the 7.8 km square centred on the town, 124 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

80th of 101

among the towns of Scotland, and 873rd of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

Forres

15 km to the E, at 10 m, the same elevation.

Cross-section through Nairn

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 22.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Nairn; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 11 m at 11 km west to 43 m at 11 km east.

North to south: from 0 m at 11 km north to 315 m at 11 km south.

Shaded relief of the 46 km around Nairn, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 46 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 Nairn

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Forres	15 km	E	10 m (33 ft)	same
Inverness (Guyana)	24.5 km	SW	20 m (66 ft)	+10 m
Inverness	24.5 km	SW	20 m (66 ft)	+10 m
Elgin	33.5 km	E	25 m (82 ft)	+15 m

Peaks and passes near Nairn

Carn an t-Sean-liathanaich, hill at 635 m (2,083 ft), 24.6 km to the S — 625 m above the town.
Carn nan Tri-tighearnan, peak at 615 m (2,018 ft), 18.6 km to the S — 605 m above the town.
Carn Dubh Mor, hill at 574 m (1,883 ft), 18.8 km to the SW — 564 m above the town.

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

Where Nairn is

Latitude 57.586422, longitude -3.868475. 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 Nairn'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 20 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.