Elevation of Washington, England, United Kingdom

Washington, England, United Kingdom is 54 m (177 ft) above sea level.

Washington's height from sea level is 54 metres, or 177 feet. GeoNames reads 59 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

10 m – 145 m

Mean 57 m across the 8 km square centred on the town, 135 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

401st of 797

among the towns of England, and 489th of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

5.4 km to the SW, at 21 m, 33 m lower.

Cross-section through Washington

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 Washington; the vertical scale is the same on both.

136-3WE22.6 km
West to east: from 126 m at 11 km west to 41 m at 11 km east.
136-3NS22.6 km
North to south: from 69 m at 11 km north to 63 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 48 km around Washington, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 48 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 Washington

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Chester-le-Street 5.4 kmSW 21 m (69 ft) −33 m
Felling 6.6 kmNW 40 m (131 ft) −14 m
Houghton-le-Spring 7 kmSE 60 m (197 ft) +6 m
Boldon 7.2 kmNE 37 m (121 ft) −17 m
Gateshead 8.2 kmNW 75 m (246 ft) +21 m

Peaks and passes near Washington

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

Where Washington is

Latitude 54.897432, longitude -1.517366. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Washington elevation: 54 m (177 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 Washington'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 59 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.