Elevation of Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom

Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom is 48 m (157 ft) above sea level.

Stirling's height from sea level is 48 metres, or 157 feet. GeoNames reads 24 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Sruighlea.

Ground within 4 km

5 m – 232 m

Mean 49 m across the 7.9 km square centred on the town, 227 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

46th of 101

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

Nearest town

7.6 km to the N, at 75 m, 27 m higher.

Cross-section through Stirling

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 Stirling; the vertical scale is the same on both.

167-10WE22.4 km
West to east: from 72 m at 11 km west to 12 m at 11 km east.
167-10NS22.4 km
North to south: from 154 m at 11 km north to 89 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 47 km around Stirling, 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 Stirling

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Dunblane 7.6 kmN 75 m (246 ft) +27 m
Alloa 9.3 kmE 13 m (43 ft) −35 m
Denny 10.8 kmS 46 m (151 ft) −2 m
Stenhousemuir 12.8 kmSE 27 m (89 ft) −21 m
Bonnybridge 13.1 kmS 41 m (135 ft) −7 m

Peaks and passes near Stirling

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

Where Stirling is

Latitude 56.116984, longitude -3.942227. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Stirling elevation: 48 m (157 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 Stirling'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 24 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.