Elevation of Malden, Massachusetts, United States of America

Malden, Massachusetts, United States of America is 13 m (43 ft) above sea level.

Malden's height from sea level is 13 metres, or 43 feet. GeoNames reads 6 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 4 m.

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 78 m

Mean 25 m across the 8.9 km square centred on the town, 78 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

31st of 36

among the towns of Massachusetts, and 859th of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

2.1 km to the SE, at 33 m, 20 m higher.

Cross-section through Malden

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Malden; the vertical scale is the same on both.

79-6WE25 km
West to east: from 57 m at 13 km west to 0 m at 13 km east.
79-6NS25 km
North to south: from 45 m at 13 km north to 22 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 52 km around Malden, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 52 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 Malden

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Everett 2.1 kmSE 33 m (108 ft) +20 m
Medford 3.4 kmW 9 m (30 ft) −4 m
Revere 4.8 kmSE 12 m (39 ft) −1 m
Somerville 5 kmSW 21 m (69 ft) +8 m
Cambridge 6.8 kmSW 14 m (46 ft) +1 m

Peaks and passes near Malden

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

Where Malden is

Latitude 42.4250964, longitude -71.066163. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Malden elevation: 13 m (43 ft) above sea level

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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 Malden'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 6 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.