Elevation of Swindon, England, United Kingdom

Swindon, England, United Kingdom is 136 m (446 ft) above sea level.

Swindon's height from sea level is 136 metres, or 446 feet. GeoNames reads 113 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

88 m – 200 m

Mean 119 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 112 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

82nd of 797

among the towns of England, and 113th of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

8.6 km to the W, at 106 m, 30 m lower.

Cross-section through Swindon

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Swindon; the vertical scale is the same on both.

24463WE23.3 km
West to east: from 119 m at 12 km west to 116 m at 12 km east.
24463NS23.3 km
North to south: from 81 m at 12 km north to 176 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Swindon, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 49 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 Swindon

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Wootton Bassett 8.6 kmW 106 m (348 ft) −30 m
Calne 20.3 kmSW 77 m (253 ft) −59 m
Cirencester 22 kmNW 115 m (377 ft) −21 m
Wantage-Grove 24.7 kmE 93 m (305 ft) −43 m
Chippenham 25.7 kmSW 54 m (177 ft) −82 m

Peaks and passes near Swindon

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

Where Swindon is

Latitude 51.5581686, longitude -1.7806793. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Swindon elevation: 136 m (446 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 Swindon'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 113 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.