Elevation of New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States of America

New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States of America is 31 m (102 ft) above sea level.

New Bedford's height from sea level is 31 metres, or 102 feet. GeoNames reads 15 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 15 m.

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 50 m

Mean 19 m across the 8.9 km square centred on the town, 50 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

17th of 36

among the towns of Massachusetts, and 722nd of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

19.7 km to the W, at 44 m, 13 m higher.

Cross-section through New Bedford

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is New Bedford; the vertical scale is the same on both.

56-4WE25.1 km
West to east: from 16 m at 13 km west to 9 m at 13 km east.
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North to south: from 25 m at 13 km north to 0 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 53 km around New Bedford, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 53 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 New Bedford

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Fall River 19.7 kmW 44 m (144 ft) +13 m
Taunton 32.1 kmNW 14 m (46 ft) −17 m

Peaks and passes near New Bedford

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

Where New Bedford is

Latitude 41.6362152, longitude -70.934205. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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New Bedford elevation: 31 m (102 ft) above sea level

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 New Bedford'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 15 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.