Elevation of Wakefield, England, United Kingdom
Wakefield, England, United Kingdom is 56 m (184 ft) above sea level.
Wakefield's height from sea level is 56 metres, or 184 feet. GeoNames reads 50 m at the same point (SRTM).
Ground within 4 km
Mean 54 m across the 8.1 km square centred on the town, 106 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Wakefield
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 22.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Wakefield; 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 Wakefield
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lofthouse-Stanley | 3.8 km | NE | 35 m (115 ft) | −21 m |
| Horbury | 3.9 km | SW | 73 m (240 ft) | +17 m |
| Ossett | 4.8 km | W | 101 m (331 ft) | +45 m |
| Normanton South | 6.2 km | E | 30 m (98 ft) | −26 m |
| Rothwell | 7.8 km | N | 59 m (194 ft) | +3 m |
Peaks and passes near Wakefield
- Cheese Gate Nab, hill at 385 m (1,263 ft), 20.9 km to the SW — 329 m above the town.
- Wood Royd Hill, hill at 370 m (1,214 ft), 20.9 km to the SW — 314 m above the town.
- Upper Whitley Edge, hill at 368 m (1,207 ft), 20.9 km to the SW — 312 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Wakefield is
Latitude 53.683298, longitude -1.505924. 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 Wakefield'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 50 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.