Elevation of Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America is 14 m (46 ft) above sea level.
Cambridge's height from sea level is 14 metres, or 46 feet. GeoNames reads 13 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 12 m.
Ground within 4 km
Mean 15 m across the 8.9 km square centred on the town, 59 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Rank by elevation
among the towns of Massachusetts, and 846th of 1,000 in United States of America.
Cross-section through Cambridge
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Cambridge; 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 Cambridge
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Somerville | 1.8 km | NE | 21 m (69 ft) | +7 m |
| Boston | 4.4 km | E | 22 m (72 ft) | +8 m |
| Brookline | 4.7 km | S | 23 m (75 ft) | +9 m |
| Medford | 5 km | N | 9 m (30 ft) | −5 m |
| Everett | 6 km | NE | 33 m (108 ft) | +19 m |
Peaks and passes near Cambridge
- Great Blue Hill, peak at 183 m (600 ft), 18 km to the S — 169 m above the town.
- Hancock Hill, peak at 155 m (509 ft), 17.3 km to the S — 141 m above the town.
- Chickatawbut Hill, peak at 152 m (499 ft), 17.3 km to the S — 138 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Cambridge is
Latitude 42.3736158, longitude -71.1097335. 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 Cambridge'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.