Elevation of Runcorn, England, United Kingdom

Runcorn, England, United Kingdom is 7 m (23 ft) above sea level.

Runcorn's height from sea level is 7 metres, or 23 feet. GeoNames reads 18 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 70 m

Mean 24 m across the 8.1 km square centred on the town, 70 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

741st of 797

among the towns of England, and 920th of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

Widnes

2.1 km to the N, at 12 m, 5 m higher.

Cross-section through Runcorn

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Runcorn; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 29 m at 12 km west to 62 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 43 m at 12 km north to 52 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 48 km around Runcorn, 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 Runcorn

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Widnes	2.1 km	N	12 m (39 ft)	+5 m
Frodsham	5 km	S	12 m (39 ft)	+5 m
Great Sankey	7.9 km	NE	17 m (56 ft)	+10 m
Prescot	10.8 km	NW	76 m (249 ft)	+69 m
Huyton-with-Roby	11.3 km	NW	38 m (125 ft)	+31 m

Peaks and passes near Runcorn

High Billinge, hill at 179 m (587 ft), 17.3 km to the S — 172 m above the town.
Billinge Hill, hill at 179 m (587 ft), 18.4 km to the N — 172 m above the town.
Hangingstone Hill - Pale Heights, hill at 177 m (581 ft), 13.7 km to the S — 170 m above the town.

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

Where Runcorn is

Latitude 53.342078, longitude -2.729673. 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 Runcorn'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 18 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.