Elevation of Pontypridd, Wales, United Kingdom

Pontypridd, Wales, United Kingdom is 95 m (312 ft) above sea level.

Pontypridd's height from sea level is 95 metres, or 312 feet. GeoNames reads 68 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

49 m – 352 m

Mean 174 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 303 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

24th of 67

among the towns of Wales, and 253rd of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

5.3 km to the N, at 99 m, 4 m higher.

Cross-section through Pontypridd

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 Pontypridd; the vertical scale is the same on both.

409-5WE23.3 km
West to east: from 312 m at 12 km west to 146 m at 12 km east.
409-5NS23.3 km
North to south: from 299 m at 12 km north to 24 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Pontypridd, 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 Pontypridd

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Mountain Ash-Abercynon 5.3 kmN 99 m (325 ft) +4 m
Tonyrefail 6.2 kmW 161 m (528 ft) +66 m
Llantrisant-Pontyclun 7 kmS 81 m (266 ft) −14 m
Treharris-Nelson 7.6 kmN 141 m (463 ft) +46 m
Caerphily 8.9 kmE 85 m (279 ft) −10 m

Peaks and passes near Pontypridd

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

Where Pontypridd is

Latitude 51.600774, longitude -3.342314. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Pontypridd elevation: 95 m (312 ft) above sea level

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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 Pontypridd'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 68 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.