Elevation of Ripon, England, United Kingdom

Ripon, England, United Kingdom is 40 m (131 ft) above sea level.

Ripon's height from sea level is 40 metres, or 131 feet. GeoNames reads 40 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

18 m – 131 m

Mean 51 m across the 8.1 km square centred on the town, 113 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

476th of 797

among the towns of England, and 575th of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

16 km to the S, at 111 m, 71 m higher.

Cross-section through Ripon

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 22.8 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Ripon; the vertical scale is the same on both.

2009WE22.8 km
West to east: from 186 m at 11 km west to 28 m at 11 km east.
2009NS22.8 km
North to south: from 41 m at 11 km north to 86 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 48 km around Ripon, 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 Ripon

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Harrogate 16 kmS 111 m (364 ft) +71 m
Thirsk 16.3 kmNE 38 m (125 ft) −2 m
Northallerton 23.4 kmN 43 m (141 ft) +3 m
Wetherby 25 kmS 29 m (95 ft) −11 m
Otley 27.7 kmSW 66 m (217 ft) +26 m

Peaks and passes near Ripon

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

Where Ripon is

Latitude 54.13564, longitude -1.527334. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Ripon elevation: 40 m (131 ft) above sea level

A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Ripon'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 40 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.