Elevation of Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America is 20 m (66 ft) above sea level.

Waltham's height from sea level is 20 metres, or 66 feet. GeoNames reads 22 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 15 m.

Ground within 4 km

13 m – 105 m

Mean 48 m across the 8.9 km square centred on the town, 92 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

25th of 36

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

Nearest town

Newton

4.9 km to the SE, at 47 m, 27 m higher.

Cross-section through Waltham

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

West to east: from 53 m at 13 km west to 13 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 44 m at 13 km north to 50 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 52 km around Waltham, 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 Waltham

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Newton	4.9 km	SE	47 m (154 ft)	+27 m
Arlington	7.8 km	NE	12 m (39 ft)	−8 m
Cambridge	10.3 km	E	14 m (46 ft)	−6 m
Brookline	10.6 km	SE	23 m (75 ft)	+3 m
Somerville	11.2 km	E	21 m (69 ft)	+1 m

Peaks and passes near Waltham

Nobscot Hill, peak at 183 m (600 ft), 17.9 km to the W — 163 m above the town.
Great Blue Hill, peak at 183 m (600 ft), 20.8 km to the SE — 163 m above the town.
Hancock Hill, peak at 155 m (509 ft), 21 km to the SE — 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 Waltham is

Latitude 42.3764852, longitude -71.2356113. 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 Waltham'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 22 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.