Anaheim, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,510 ft 460 m1,140 ft 350 m960 ft 295 m600 ft 180 m230 ft 70 m47 ft 14 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 ft
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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Anaheim sits at about 150 ft (45 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
150 ft 45 m
most residents: 84–380 ft
Lowest
47 ft 14 m
on the west side
Highest
1,510 ft 460 m
at the foot of the Peralta Hills
Average
320 ft 95 m
all land inside city limits
Anaheim spans about 1,463 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 | 150 ft45 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, at the foot of the Peralta Hills | 1,510 ft460 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 47 ft14 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Anaheim | 160 ft50 m |
| Airport (SNA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.0 mi south of the city limits | 56 ft17 m |
| Average of all land | 320 ft95 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
17 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Orange County, California, United States
- Population
- 344,561 2024 est.
- Land area
- 50.3 sq mi + 0.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 6,852 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.8353° N, 117.9145° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- John Wayne/Orange County (SNA) 56 ft
- ZIP codes 7
- 92801 92802 92804 92805 92806 92807 92808
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Brea400 ft
- Villa Park350 ft
- El Modena310 ft
- Placentia280 ft
- Orange240 ft
- Fullerton210 ft
- Anaheim150 ft
- Garden Grove83 ft
- Santa Ana79 ft
- Buena Park72 ft
- Stanton64 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,222nd highest of 1,622
- Towns in Orange County30th highest of 47
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Santiago Peak5,690 ft
- Sunset Peak5,580 ft
- Estelle Mountain2,767 ft
- Mount Jurupa2,225 ft
- San Pedro Hill1,480 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- 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, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.