Elevation of Torquay, England, United Kingdom

Torquay, England, United Kingdom is 20 m (66 ft) above sea level.

Torquay's height from sea level is 20 metres, or 66 feet. GeoNames reads 8 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Torbay.

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 138 m

Mean 34 m across the 8.4 km square centred on the town, 138 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

607th of 797

among the towns of England, and 738th of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

Paignton

4.1 km to the SW, at 5 m, 15 m lower.

Cross-section through Torquay

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Torquay; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 64 m at 12 km west to 0 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 172 m at 12 km north to 0 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 49 km around Torquay, 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 Torquay

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Paignton	4.1 km	SW	5 m (16 ft)	−15 m
Brixham	7.5 km	S	26 m (85 ft)	+6 m
Newton Abbot	9.5 km	NW	21 m (69 ft)	+1 m
Teignmouth	9.7 km	N	7 m (23 ft)	−13 m
Kingsteignton	11 km	NW	8 m (26 ft)	−12 m

Peaks and passes near Torquay

Rippon Tor, hill at 476 m (1,562 ft), 20.9 km to the NW — 456 m above the town.
Chinkwell Tor, hill at 460 m (1,509 ft), 23.9 km to the NW — 440 m above the town.
Haytor Rocks, hill at 457 m (1,499 ft), 21 km to the NW — 437 m above the town.

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

Where Torquay is

Latitude 50.4619209, longitude -3.525315. 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 Torquay'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 8 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.