Elevation of Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Oxford, England, United Kingdom is 68 m (223 ft) above sea level.

Oxford's height from sea level is 68 metres, or 223 feet. GeoNames reads 72 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Rhydychen.

Ground within 4 km

57 m – 148 m

Mean 74 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 91 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

332nd of 797

among the towns of England, and 404th of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

Kidlington

8.3 km to the N, at 64 m, 4 m lower.

Cross-section through Oxford

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 Oxford; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 61 m at 12 km west to 76 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 91 m at 12 km north to 52 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 49 km around Oxford, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 49 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 Oxford

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Kidlington	8.3 km	N	64 m (210 ft)	−4 m
Abingdon	9.3 km	S	57 m (187 ft)	−11 m
Didcot	16 km	S	71 m (233 ft)	+3 m
Witney	16.1 km	W	84 m (276 ft)	+16 m
Bicester	17.9 km	NE	72 m (236 ft)	+4 m

Peaks and passes near Oxford

Bald Hill, hill at 257 m (843 ft), 23.7 km to the SE — 189 m above the town.
Beacon Hill, hill at 256 m (840 ft), 23.7 km to the SE — 188 m above the town.
Lattin Down, hill at 240 m (787 ft), 24.6 km to the SW — 172 m above the town.

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

Where Oxford is

Latitude 51.751724, longitude -1.255285. 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 Oxford'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 72 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.