Elevation of Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Durham, North Carolina, United States of America is 122 m (400 ft) above sea level.

Durham's height from sea level is 122 metres, or 400 feet. GeoNames reads 121 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 123 m.

Ground within 5 km

92 m – 131 m

Mean 113 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 39 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

14th of 21

among the towns of North Carolina, and 519th of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

Chapel Hill

16.8 km to the SW, at 148 m, 26 m higher.

Cross-section through Durham

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

West to east: from 155 m at 13 km west to 106 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 139 m at 13 km north to 93 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around Durham, 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 Durham

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Chapel Hill	16.8 km	SW	148 m (486 ft)	+26 m
Cary	24.9 km	SE	147 m (482 ft)	+25 m
Apex	29.4 km	S	147 m (482 ft)	+25 m
Raleigh	34 km	SE	94 m (308 ft)	−28 m

Peaks and passes near Durham

Occoneechee Mountain, peak at 261 m (856 ft), 21.4 km to the W — 139 m above the town.
Pickards Mountain, peak at 237 m (778 ft), 23.7 km to the W — 115 m above the town.
Scarlett Hill, peak at 227 m (745 ft), 17.9 km to the W — 105 m above the town.

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

Where Durham is

Latitude 35.9940329, longitude -78.898619. 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_260,Durham,North+Carolina,United+States+of+America"><img src="https://www.altitude-maps.com/embed/227_260.svg" width="240" height="60" alt="Durham elevation: 122 m (400 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 Durham'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 121 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.