Elevation of Prestwick, Scotland, United Kingdom

Prestwick, Scotland, United Kingdom is 10 m (33 ft) above sea level.

Prestwick's height from sea level is 10 metres, or 33 feet. GeoNames reads 14 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 66 m

Mean 16 m across the 8 km square centred on the town, 66 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

80th of 101

among the towns of Scotland, and 873rd of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

4.2 km to the S, at 11 m, 1 m higher.

Cross-section through Prestwick

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 22.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Prestwick; the vertical scale is the same on both.

127-10WE22.5 km
West to east: from 0 m at 11 km west to 104 m at 11 km east.
127-10NS22.5 km
North to south: from 20 m at 11 km north to 117 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 47 km around Prestwick, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 47 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 Prestwick

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Ayr 4.2 kmS 11 m (36 ft) +1 m
Troon 5.8 kmNW 0 m (0 ft) −10 m
Irvine 13.4 kmN 10 m (33 ft) same
Kilmarnock 15.1 kmNE 43 m (141 ft) +33 m
Kilwinning 18.7 kmN 17 m (56 ft) +7 m

Peaks and passes near Prestwick

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

Where Prestwick is

Latitude 55.495587, longitude -4.6142139. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Prestwick elevation: 10 m (33 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 Prestwick'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 14 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.