Arizona Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
12,640 ft 3,850 m9,500 ft 2,895 m7,930 ft 2,415 m4,780 ft 1,460 m1,640 ft 500 m73 ft 22 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.
- State area
- Fades everything outside the official state boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Arizona averages about 4,220 ft (1,285 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 73 ft on the southwest side to 12,637 ft on Humphreys Peak.
Average elevation
4,220 ft 1,285 m
all land in Arizona
Highest
12,637 ft 3,852 m
on Humphreys Peak
Lowest
73 ft 22 m
on the southwest side
Arizona spans about 12,567 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 4,220 ft1,285 m |
| Highest point In Arizona, on Humphreys Peak (NGS survey height) | 12,637 ft3,852 m |
| Lowest point In Arizona, on the southwest side | 73 ft22 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
370 mi south to north through Phoenix.
Topographic Map
- Location
- State in the Mountain division of the West region, United States
- Population
- 7,582,384 2024 est.
- Land area
- 113,655.5 sq mi + 329.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 67 per sq mi
- Counties
- 15
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7, no daylight saving outside the Navajo Nation
- Landform regions
- Basin and Range 62%, Colorado Plateaus 38%
- Drains to
- Gulf of California 92%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring states sharing a border, by average
- Utah6,060 ft
- New Mexico5,780 ft
- Nevada5,540 ft
- Arizona4,220 ft
- California2,820 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- States in the United States7th highest of 52
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Humphreys Peak12,637 ft
- Mount Baldy11,420 ft
- Escudilla Mountain10,920 ft
- Mount Graham10,700 ft
- Kendrick Peak10,425 ft
All 15 counties by average elevation
- Apache County6,550 ft
- Navajo County6,000 ft
- Coconino County5,900 ft
- Greenlee County5,670 ft
- Gila County4,640 ft
- Cochise County4,630 ft
- Santa Cruz County4,540 ft
- Graham County4,540 ft
- Yavapai County4,460 ft
- Mohave County3,750 ft
- Pima County2,650 ft
- Pinal County2,330 ft
- Maricopa County1,640 ft
- La Paz County1,360 ft
- Yuma County860 ft
All 19 tribal lands by average elevation
- Fort Apache Reservation6,370 ft
- Navajo Nation Reservation5,990 ft
- Hopi Reservation5,820 ft
- Yavapai-Prescott Reservation5,440 ft
- Havasupai Reservation5,380 ft
- Kaibab Indian Reservation5,120 ft
- Hualapai Indian Reservation5,050 ft
- Tonto Apache Reservation5,040 ft
- San Carlos Reservation4,670 ft
- Yavapai-Apache Nation Reservation3,220 ft
- Pascua Pueblo Yaqui Reservation2,570 ft
- Tohono O'odham Nation Reservation2,280 ft
- Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation Reservation1,510 ft
- Salt River Reservation1,370 ft
- Gila River Indian Reservation1,300 ft
- Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian Reservation1,210 ft
- Fort Mojave Reservation490 ft
- Colorado River Indian Reservation490 ft
- Cocopah Reservation120 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census state boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 8 arc-second (≈810 ft, 247 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 71 ft at 32.5632° N, 114.7918° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- Nearby Places: neighboring states and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the state with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Counties: each one's average on its own grid (1 arc-second, coarser for the largest), the same figure its own page shows.
- 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 (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, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.