Elevation of Passaic, New Jersey, United States of America

Passaic, New Jersey, United States of America is 38 m (125 ft) above sea level.

Passaic's height from sea level is 38 metres, or 125 feet. GeoNames reads 38 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 30 m.

Ground within 5 km

2 m – 71 m

Mean 28 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 69 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

6th of 22

among the towns of New Jersey, and 698th of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

3 km to the W, at 51 m, 13 m higher.

Cross-section through Passaic

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Passaic; the vertical scale is the same on both.

184-13WE25.3 km
West to east: from 170 m at 13 km west to 3 m at 13 km east.
184-13NS25.3 km
North to south: from 43 m at 13 km north to 5 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 53 km around Passaic, 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 Passaic

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Clifton 3 kmW 51 m (167 ft) +13 m
Paterson 7.6 kmNW 20 m (66 ft) −18 m
Hackensack 7.8 kmNE 8 m (26 ft) −30 m
Kearny 9.9 kmS 37 m (121 ft) −1 m
East Orange 11.8 kmSW 49 m (161 ft) +11 m

Peaks and passes near Passaic

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

Where Passaic is

Latitude 40.8567662, longitude -74.1284764. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Passaic elevation: 38 m (125 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 Passaic'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 38 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.