Elevation of Prestatyn, Wales, United Kingdom

Prestatyn, Wales, United Kingdom is 8 m (26 ft) above sea level.

Prestatyn's height from sea level is 8 metres, or 26 feet. GeoNames reads 8 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 193 m

Mean 44 m across the 8.1 km square centred on the town, 193 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

60th of 67

among the towns of Wales, and 906th of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

5.9 km to the W, at 8 m, the same elevation.

Cross-section through Prestatyn

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Prestatyn; the vertical scale is the same on both.

199-15WE23 km
West to east: from 0 m at 12 km west to 0 m at 12 km east.
199-15NS23 km
North to south: from 0 m at 12 km north to 47 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 48 km around Prestatyn, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 48 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 Prestatyn

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Rhyl 5.9 kmW 8 m (26 ft) same
Abergele 12.9 kmSW 11 m (36 ft) +3 m
Hoylake-West Kirby (England) 16.3 kmE 10 m (33 ft) +2 m
Greasby (England) 19.3 kmE 42 m (138 ft) +34 m
Heswall (England) 20.5 kmE 89 m (292 ft) +81 m

Peaks and passes near Prestatyn

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

Where Prestatyn is

Latitude 53.336512, longitude -3.407613. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Prestatyn elevation: 8 m (26 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 Prestatyn'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 8 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.