Elevation of Sunderland, England, United Kingdom
Sunderland, England, United Kingdom is 38 m (125 ft) above sea level.
Sunderland's height from sea level is 38 metres, or 125 feet. GeoNames reads 36 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 60 m.
Also written: Wearmouth.
Ground within 4 km
Mean 38 m across the 8 km square centred on the town, 114 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Sunderland
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 22.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Sunderland; 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 Sunderland
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boldon | 5.6 km | NW | 37 m (121 ft) | −1 m |
| Seaham | 8 km | S | 33 m (108 ft) | −5 m |
| Washington | 8.6 km | W | 54 m (177 ft) | +16 m |
| Houghton-le-Spring | 9.1 km | SW | 60 m (197 ft) | +22 m |
| Hetton-le-Hole | 9.9 km | SW | 88 m (289 ft) | +50 m |
Peaks and passes near Sunderland
- Pontop Pike, hill at 312 m (1,024 ft), 24.9 km to the W — 274 m above the town.
- Wheatley Hill, hill at 261 m (856 ft), 21.8 km to the W — 223 m above the town.
- Greenland Bank, hill at 234 m (768 ft), 24.8 km to the SW — 196 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Sunderland is
Latitude 54.906869, longitude -1.383801. 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 Sunderland'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 36 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.