Elevation of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America is 148 m (486 ft) above sea level.
Chapel Hill's height from sea level is 148 metres, or 486 feet. GeoNames reads 149 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 149 m.
Ground within 5 km
Mean 126 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 97 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Rank by elevation
among the towns of North Carolina, and 480th of 1,000 in United States of America.
Cross-section through Chapel Hill
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Chapel Hill; 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 Chapel Hill
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Durham | 16.8 km | NE | 122 m (400 ft) | −26 m |
| Apex | 27.3 km | SE | 147 m (482 ft) | −1 m |
| Cary | 28.2 km | SE | 147 m (482 ft) | −1 m |
| Burlington | 39.9 km | NW | 197 m (646 ft) | +49 m |
Peaks and passes near Chapel Hill
- Occoneechee Mountain, peak at 261 m (856 ft), 17.6 km to the N — 113 m above the town.
- Pickards Mountain, peak at 237 m (778 ft), 10.9 km to the NW — 89 m above the town.
- Terrells Mountain, peak at 230 m (755 ft), 11.3 km to the SW — 82 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Chapel Hill is
Latitude 35.9131996, longitude -79.0558445. 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 Chapel Hill'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 149 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.