Elevation of Penzance, England, United Kingdom
Penzance, England, United Kingdom is 33 m (108 ft) above sea level.
Penzance's height from sea level is 33 metres, or 108 feet. GeoNames reads 32 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 10 m.
Also written: Pennsans.
Ground within 4 km
Mean 71 m across the 8.4 km square centred on the town, 204 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Penzance
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Penzance; 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 Penzance
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Ives | 11.1 km | N | 19 m (62 ft) | −14 m |
| Helston | 18.8 km | E | 66 m (217 ft) | +33 m |
| Camborne-Redruth | 20.2 km | NE | 108 m (354 ft) | +75 m |
| Falmouth | 33.8 km | E | 3 m (10 ft) | −30 m |
| Truro | 38.2 km | NE | 19 m (62 ft) | −14 m |
Peaks and passes near Penzance
- Watch Croft, hill at 253 m (830 ft), 7.5 km to the NW — 220 m above the town.
- Carnmenellis, hill at 252 m (827 ft), 23.1 km to the E — 219 m above the town.
- Trendrine Hill, hill at 247 m (810 ft), 8.5 km to the N — 214 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Penzance is
Latitude 50.118798, longitude -5.537592. 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 Penzance'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 32 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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.