What is the acceleration of an object approaching the earths surface?

Because gravity is not uniform across the entire surface of the earth and the centripetal force varies noticeably with latitude, the acceleration varies from point to point on Earth. At different points on Earth, objects fall with an acceleration between 9.78 and 9.82 m/s2 depending on latitude, with a conventional standard value of exactly 9.80665 m/s2 (approx. 32.174 ft/s2).