Elevation of Rayleigh, England, United Kingdom
Rayleigh, England, United Kingdom is 59 m (194 ft) above sea level.
Rayleigh's height from sea level is 59 metres, or 194 feet. GeoNames reads 67 m at the same point (SRTM).
Ground within 4 km
Mean 38 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 78 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Rayleigh
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 Rayleigh; 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 Rayleigh
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hockley | 4.5 km | NE | 41 m (135 ft) | −18 m |
| Benfleet | 5.2 km | SW | 32 m (105 ft) | −27 m |
| Wickford | 6.4 km | NW | 11 m (36 ft) | −48 m |
| South Woodham Ferrers | 6.7 km | N | 8 m (26 ft) | −51 m |
| Rochford | 7 km | E | 10 m (33 ft) | −49 m |
Peaks and passes near Rayleigh
- William's Hill, hill at 132 m (433 ft), 24.6 km to the SW — 73 m above the town.
- Brentwood Park, hill at 121 m (397 ft), 21.5 km to the W — 62 m above the town.
- Langdon Hill, hill at 118 m (387 ft), 13.2 km to the W — 59 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Rayleigh is
Latitude 51.586385, longitude 0.604871. 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 Rayleigh'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 67 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.