Elevation of Quincy, Massachusetts, United States of America

Quincy, Massachusetts, United States of America is 17 m (56 ft) above sea level.

Quincy's height from sea level is 17 metres, or 56 feet. GeoNames reads 17 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 9 m.

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 81 m

Mean 18 m across the 8.9 km square centred on the town, 81 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

26th of 36

among the towns of Massachusetts, and 821st of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

Weymouth

6.4 km to the SE, at 31 m, 14 m higher.

Cross-section through Quincy

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

West to east: from 22 m at 13 km west to 0 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 2 m at 13 km north to 63 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 53 km around Quincy, 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 Quincy

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Weymouth	6.4 km	SE	31 m (102 ft)	+14 m
Weymouth Town	6.4 km	SE	31 m (102 ft)	+14 m
Boston	12.7 km	N	22 m (72 ft)	+5 m
Brookline	13.1 km	NW	23 m (75 ft)	+6 m
Cambridge	16.1 km	NW	14 m (46 ft)	−3 m

Peaks and passes near Quincy

Great Blue Hill, peak at 183 m (600 ft), 10.4 km to the SW — 166 m above the town.
Hancock Hill, peak at 155 m (509 ft), 8.6 km to the SW — 138 m above the town.
Chickatawbut Hill, peak at 152 m (499 ft), 6 km to the SW — 135 m above the town.

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

Where Quincy is

Latitude 42.2528772, longitude -71.0022705. 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 Quincy'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 17 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.