Elevation of Penrith, England, United Kingdom
Penrith, England, United Kingdom is 139 m (456 ft) above sea level.
Penrith's height from sea level is 139 metres, or 456 feet. GeoNames reads 146 m at the same point (SRTM).
Ground within 4 km
Mean 171 m across the 8.1 km square centred on the town, 154 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Penrith
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 22.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Penrith; 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 Penrith
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carlisle | 27.9 km | NW | 22 m (72 ft) | −117 m |
| Kendal | 37.4 km | S | 52 m (171 ft) | −87 m |
Peaks and passes near Penrith
- Helvellyn, peak at 950 m (3,117 ft), 22.9 km to the SW — 811 m above the town.
- Helvellyn Lower Man, hill at 924 m (3,031 ft), 23 km to the SW — 785 m above the town.
- Cross Fell, peak at 893 m (2,930 ft), 17.6 km to the E — 754 m above the town.
- Kirkstone Pass, pass at 455 m (1,493 ft), 24.8 km to the SW.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Penrith is
Latitude 54.664097, longitude -2.752708. 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 Penrith'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 146 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.