Elevation of Whitburn, Scotland, United Kingdom
Whitburn, Scotland, United Kingdom is 164 m (538 ft) above sea level.
Whitburn's height from sea level is 164 metres, or 538 feet. GeoNames reads 173 m at the same point (SRTM).
Ground within 4 km
Mean 184 m across the 8 km square centred on the town, 146 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Whitburn
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 22.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Whitburn; 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 Whitburn
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armadale | 3.6 km | N | 179 m (587 ft) | +15 m |
| Bathgate | 4.6 km | NE | 138 m (453 ft) | −26 m |
| Linlithgow | 9.3 km | NE | 163 m (535 ft) | −1 m |
| Livingston | 10.9 km | E | 152 m (499 ft) | −12 m |
| Polmont | 13.8 km | N | 57 m (187 ft) | −107 m |
Peaks and passes near Whitburn
- Scald Law, hill at 579 m (1,900 ft), 24.6 km to the E — 415 m above the town.
- East Cairn Hill, hill at 567 m (1,860 ft), 18.9 km to the E — 403 m above the town.
- South Black Hill, hill at 563 m (1,847 ft), 24.6 km to the E — 399 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Whitburn is
Latitude 55.867674, longitude -3.682519. 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 Whitburn'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 173 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.