Berkeley, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,310 ft 400 m980 ft 300 m820 ft 250 m490 ft 150 m160 ft 50 m0 ft 0 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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
Berkeley sits at about 190 ft (60 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
190 ft 60 m
most residents: 58–450 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on San Francisco Bay
Highest
1,310 ft 400 m
at the foot of the Berkeley Hills
Average
280 ft 85 m
all land inside city limits
Berkeley spans about 1,310 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 | 190 ft60 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, at the foot of the Berkeley Hills | 1,310 ft400 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets San Francisco Bay | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Berkeley | 170 ft50 m |
| Airport (OAK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.0 mi south of the city limits | 9 ft3 m |
| Average of all land | 280 ft85 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Alameda County, California, United States
- Population
- 121,749 2024 est.
- Land area
- 10.4 sq mi + 7.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 11,671 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.8716° N, 122.2727° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Oakland San Francisco Bay (OAK) 9 ft
- ZIP codes 9
- 94702 94703 94704 94705 94707 94708 94709 94710 94720
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Orinda720 ft
- Kensington600 ft
- East Richmond Heights330 ft
- Piedmont280 ft
- Berkeley190 ft
- El Cerrito110 ft
- Rollingwood78 ft
- Oakland70 ft
- Albany58 ft
- Richmond54 ft
- Emeryville18 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,130th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Alameda County8th highest of 20
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Diablo3,864 ft
- Mount Tamalpais2,576 ft
- Rocky Ridge2,020 ft
- Vollmer Peak1,916 ft
- Big Rock Ridge1,880 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.