Elevation of Cary, North Carolina, United States of America

Cary, North Carolina, United States of America is 147 m (482 ft) above sea level.

Cary's height from sea level is 147 metres, or 482 feet. GeoNames reads 152 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 146 m to 152 m.

Ground within 5 km

86 m – 157 m

Mean 130 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 71 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

12th of 21

among the towns of North Carolina, and 481st of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

Apex

9 km to the SW, at 147 m, the same elevation.

Cross-section through Cary

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Cary; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 105 m at 13 km west to 111 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 130 m at 13 km north to 117 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around Cary, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 55 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 Cary

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Apex	9 km	SW	147 m (482 ft)	same
Raleigh	13 km	E	94 m (308 ft)	−53 m
Durham	24.9 km	NW	122 m (400 ft)	−25 m
Chapel Hill	28.2 km	NW	148 m (486 ft)	+1 m

Where Cary is

Latitude 35.79154, longitude -78.7811169. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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<a href="https://www.altitude-maps.com/city/227_141,Cary,North+Carolina,United+States+of+America"><img src="https://www.altitude-maps.com/embed/227_141.svg" width="240" height="60" alt="Cary elevation: 147 m (482 ft) above sea level"></a>

A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Cary'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 152 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.