Elevation of Scalby, England, United Kingdom

Scalby, England, United Kingdom is 48 m (157 ft) above sea level.

Scalby's height from sea level is 48 metres, or 157 feet. GeoNames reads 52 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 178 m

Mean 81 m across the 8.1 km square centred on the town, 178 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

427th of 797

among the towns of England, and 518th of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

3.7 km to the SE, at 14 m, 34 m lower.

Cross-section through Scalby

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 Scalby; the vertical scale is the same on both.

182-14WE22.8 km
West to east: from 142 m at 11 km west to 0 m at 11 km east.
182-14NS22.8 km
North to south: from 0 m at 11 km north to 168 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 48 km around Scalby, 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 Scalby

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Scarborough 3.7 kmSE 14 m (46 ft) −34 m
Eastfield 7 kmSE 62 m (203 ft) +14 m
Whitby 23.4 kmNW 12 m (39 ft) −36 m
Bridlington 28.9 kmSE 12 m (39 ft) −36 m
Great Driffield 32.6 kmS 20 m (66 ft) −28 m

Peaks and passes near Scalby

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

Where Scalby is

Latitude 54.298911, longitude -0.450643. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Scalby elevation: 48 m (157 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 Scalby'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 52 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.