Elevation of Paterson, New Jersey, United States of America

Paterson, New Jersey, United States of America is 20 m (66 ft) above sea level.

Paterson's height from sea level is 20 metres, or 66 feet. GeoNames reads 35 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 32 m.

Ground within 5 km

12 m – 189 m

Mean 62 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 177 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

10th of 22

among the towns of New Jersey, and 796th of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

Clifton

6.5 km to the S, at 51 m, 31 m higher.

Cross-section through Paterson

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Paterson; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 56 m at 13 km west to 15 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 130 m at 13 km north to 37 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 53 km around Paterson, 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 Paterson

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Clifton	6.5 km	S	51 m (167 ft)	+31 m
Passaic	7.6 km	SE	38 m (125 ft)	+18 m
Hackensack	11.3 km	E	8 m (26 ft)	−12 m
Kearny	16.6 km	S	37 m (121 ft)	+17 m
East Orange	16.8 km	S	49 m (161 ft)	+29 m

Peaks and passes near Paterson

Bald Mountain, peak at 351 m (1,152 ft), 22.8 km to the N — 331 m above the town.
High Mountain, peak at 337 m (1,106 ft), 19.8 km to the N — 317 m above the town.
Herman Hill, peak at 328 m (1,076 ft), 22.1 km to the N — 308 m above the town.

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

Where Paterson is

Latitude 40.9167654, longitude -74.171811. 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 Paterson'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 35 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.