Elevation of Rosyth, Scotland, United Kingdom

Rosyth, Scotland, United Kingdom is 25 m (82 ft) above sea level.

Rosyth's height from sea level is 25 metres, or 82 feet. GeoNames reads 32 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 115 m

Mean 41 m across the 8 km square centred on the town, 115 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

56th of 101

among the towns of Scotland, and 680th of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

4.3 km to the NW, at 83 m, 58 m higher.

Cross-section through Rosyth

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 22.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Rosyth; the vertical scale is the same on both.

262-20WE22.4 km
West to east: from 1 m at 11 km west to 0 m at 11 km east.
262-20NS22.4 km
North to south: from 136 m at 11 km north to 96 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 47 km around Rosyth, 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 Rosyth

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Dunfermline 4.3 kmNW 83 m (272 ft) +58 m
Dalgety Bay 4.5 kmE 28 m (92 ft) +3 m
Queensferry 5.4 kmS 34 m (112 ft) +9 m
Cowdenbeath 10 kmNE 132 m (433 ft) +107 m
Boness 11.3 kmW 2 m (7 ft) −23 m

Peaks and passes near Rosyth

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

Where Rosyth is

Latitude 56.03647, longitude -3.423064. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Rosyth elevation: 25 m (82 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 Rosyth'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 32 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.