Anchorage, AK Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
7,950 ft 2,420 m5,960 ft 1,815 m4,970 ft 1,515 m2,980 ft 910 m990 ft 305 m0 ft 0 m
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USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official borough limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Anchorage sits at about 180 ft (55 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
180 ft 55 m
most residents: 75–480 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on the Knik Arm
Highest
7,950 ft 2,420 m
on Bashful Peak
Average
2,480 ft 755 m
all land inside borough limits
Anchorage spans about 7,950 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 180 ft55 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on Bashful Peak | 7,950 ft2,420 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets the Knik Arm | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Anchorage | 100 ft30 m |
| Airport (ANC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 151 ft46 m |
| Average of all land | 2,480 ft755 m |
| Nearest peak Mount Gilbert, Chugach Census Area, 6.4 mi east of the borough limits | 9,550 ft2,910 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
20 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Consolidated city and municipality in Alaska, United States
- Population
- 289,600 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,706.8 sq mi + 237.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 170 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 61.2181° N, 149.9003° W
- Time zone
- Alaska UTC−9 / −8
- Drains to
- Gulf of Alaska
- Airport
- Ted Stevens Anchorage International (ANC) 151 ft
- ZIP codes 18
- 99501 99502 99503 99504 99505 99506 99507 99508 99513 99515 99516 99517 99518 99530 99540 99567 99577 99587
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sunrise2,020 ft
- Wasilla400 ft
- Meadow Lakes350 ft
- South Lakes340 ft
- Houston260 ft
- Knik-Fairview260 ft
- Point MacKenzie200 ft
- Hope180 ft
- Big Lake180 ft
- Anchorage180 ft
- Susitna100 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alaska199th highest of 355
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bashful Peak7,950 ft
- Baleful Peak7,940 ft
- Bellicose Peak7,610 ft
- Benign Peak7,190 ft
- Begich Peak4,640 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the borough limits, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census borough limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026). Much of Alaska's 3DEP comes from airborne radar (IfSAR), good to a few meters.
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (FAA airport elevation, NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS and Watershed Boundary Dataset; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.