Elevation of Rochester, England, United Kingdom

Rochester, England, United Kingdom is 15 m (49 ft) above sea level.

Rochester's height from sea level is 15 metres, or 49 feet. GeoNames reads 8 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Rochester upon Medway.

Ground within 4 km

2 m – 144 m

Mean 48 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 142 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

659th of 797

among the towns of England, and 806th of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

Chatham

1.3 km to the SE, at 35 m, 20 m higher.

Cross-section through Rochester

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Rochester; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 95 m at 12 km west to 2 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 4 m at 12 km north to 25 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 49 km around Rochester, 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 Rochester

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Chatham	1.3 km	SE	35 m (115 ft)	+20 m
Strood	2 km	W	42 m (138 ft)	+27 m
Gillingham	3.1 km	E	35 m (115 ft)	+20 m
Snodland	7.6 km	SW	8 m (26 ft)	−7 m
Gravesend	11.2 km	NW	7 m (23 ft)	−8 m

Peaks and passes near Rochester

Wrotham Hill, hill at 235 m (771 ft), 17.3 km to the SW — 220 m above the town.
Raspit Hill, hill at 207 m (679 ft), 21.6 km to the SW — 192 m above the town.
Detling Hill, hill at 202 m (663 ft), 11.4 km to the SE — 187 m above the town.

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

Where Rochester is

Latitude 51.388, longitude 0.506721. 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 Rochester'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.