Elevation of George Town, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands

George Town, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands is 6 m (20 ft) above sea level.

George Town's height from sea level is 6 metres, or 20 feet. GeoNames reads 3 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 10 m.

Also written: Georgetown.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 8 m

Mean 1 m across the 9.9 km square centred on the town, 8 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 5

among the towns of Grand Cayman, and 2nd of 5 in Cayman Islands.

Nearest town

10.6 km to the E, at 7 m, 1 m higher.

Cross-section through George Town

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is George Town; the vertical scale is the same on both.

34-26WE28 km
West to east: from 0 m at 14 km west to 0 m at 14 km east.
34-26NS28 km
North to south: from 0 m at 14 km north to 0 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 59 km around George Town, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 59 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 George Town

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Bodden Town 10.6 kmE 7 m (23 ft) +1 m
West Bay 11.3 kmN 6 m (20 ft) same
North Side 18.1 kmNE 0 m (0 ft) −6 m
East End 27.2 kmE 0 m (0 ft) −6 m

Where George Town is

Latitude 19.2833333, longitude -81.3666667. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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George Town elevation: 6 m (20 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 George Town'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 3 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.