Elevation of Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom is 6 m (20 ft) above sea level.
Belfast's height from sea level is 6 metres, or 20 feet. GeoNames reads 7 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 3 m.
Also written: Béal Feirste.
Ground within 4 km
Mean 35 m across the 8.1 km square centred on the town, 296 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Rank by elevation
among the towns of Northern Ireland, and 942nd of 997 in United Kingdom.
Cross-section through Belfast
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 22.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Belfast; the vertical scale is the same on both.
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 Belfast
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castlereagh | 3.7 km | SE | 15 m (49 ft) | +9 m |
| Holywood | 7.8 km | NE | 14 m (46 ft) | +8 m |
| Carryduff | 9.4 km | S | 117 m (384 ft) | +111 m |
| Newtownabbey | 10 km | N | 129 m (423 ft) | +123 m |
| Lisburn | 11.8 km | SW | 39 m (128 ft) | +33 m |
Peaks and passes near Belfast
- Divis, peak at 478 m (1,568 ft), 5.7 km to the W — 472 m above the town.
- Cave Hill, hill at 368 m (1,207 ft), 5.7 km to the N — 362 m above the town.
- Collinward, hill at 360 m (1,181 ft), 6.4 km to the N — 354 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Belfast is
Latitude 54.5974433, longitude -5.9340683. 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 Belfast'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 7 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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.