Elevation of Apex, North Carolina, United States of America
Apex, North Carolina, United States of America is 147 m (482 ft) above sea level.
Apex's height from sea level is 147 metres, or 482 feet. GeoNames reads 153 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 152 m.
Ground within 5 km
Mean 124 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 57 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Rank by elevation
among the towns of North Carolina, and 481st of 1,000 in United States of America.
Cross-section through Apex
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Apex; 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 Apex
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cary | 9 km | NE | 147 m (482 ft) | same |
| Raleigh | 19.6 km | E | 94 m (308 ft) | −53 m |
| Chapel Hill | 27.3 km | NW | 148 m (486 ft) | +1 m |
| Durham | 29.4 km | N | 122 m (400 ft) | −25 m |
Peaks and passes near Apex
- Edwards Mountain, peak at 201 m (659 ft), 22 km to the NW — 54 m above the town.
- Boothe Hill, peak at 183 m (600 ft), 21.5 km to the NW — 36 m above the town.
- Red Hill, peak at 183 m (600 ft), 22.8 km to the W — 36 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Apex is
Latitude 35.732652, longitude -78.8502856. 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 Apex'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 153 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.