Elevation of Buffalo, New York, United States of America
Buffalo, New York, United States of America is 187 m (614 ft) above sea level.
Buffalo's height from sea level is 187 metres, or 614 feet. GeoNames reads 191 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 183 m.
Ground within 4 km
Mean 182 m across the 8.8 km square centred on the town, 33 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Rank by elevation
among the towns of New York, and 407th of 1,000 in United States of America.
Cross-section through Buffalo
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Buffalo; 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 Buffalo
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Seneca | 7.6 km | SE | 184 m (604 ft) | −3 m |
| Fort Erie (Canada) | 7.8 km | W | 191 m (627 ft) | +4 m |
| Tonawanda CDP | 10.7 km | N | 185 m (607 ft) | −2 m |
| Cheektowaga | 11 km | E | 201 m (659 ft) | +14 m |
| Niagara Falls | 26.7 km | NW | 177 m (581 ft) | −10 m |
Peaks and passes near Buffalo
- West Hill, peak at 228 m (748 ft), 25 km to the NE — 41 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Buffalo is
Latitude 42.8864468, longitude -78.8783689. 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 Buffalo'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 191 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.