Elevation of Brookline, Massachusetts, United States of America

Brookline, Massachusetts, United States of America is 23 m (75 ft) above sea level.

Brookline's height from sea level is 23 metres, or 75 feet. GeoNames reads 13 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 15 m.

Ground within 4 km

3 m – 76 m

Mean 30 m across the 8.9 km square centred on the town, 73 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

22nd of 36

among the towns of Massachusetts, and 775th of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

4.7 km to the N, at 14 m, 9 m lower.

Cross-section through Brookline

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Brookline; the vertical scale is the same on both.

96-8WE25 km
West to east: from 44 m at 13 km west to 0 m at 13 km east.
96-8NS25 km
North to south: from 71 m at 13 km north to 63 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 52 km around Brookline, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 52 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 Brookline

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Cambridge 4.7 kmN 14 m (46 ft) −9 m
Boston 5.9 kmNE 22 m (72 ft) −1 m
Somerville 6.5 kmN 21 m (69 ft) −2 m
Newton 7.3 kmW 47 m (154 ft) +24 m
Medford 9.7 kmN 9 m (30 ft) −14 m

Peaks and passes near Brookline

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

Where Brookline is

Latitude 42.3317642, longitude -71.1211635. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Brookline elevation: 23 m (75 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 Brookline'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 13 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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.