Brawley, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
−94 ft −29 m−110 ft −35 m−120 ft −40 m−140 ft −45 m−160 ft −50 m−170 ft −55 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
Brawley sits about 110 ft (35 m) below sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
−110 ft −35 m
most residents: −120–−100 ft
Lowest
−170 ft −55 m
on the northwest side
Highest
−93 ft −28 m
on the southwest side
Average
−120 ft −35 m
all land inside city limits
Brawley spans about 77 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.
About 100% of residents live below sea level.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | −110 ft−35 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | −93 ft−28 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | −170 ft−55 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Brawley | −110 ft−35 m |
| Airport (IPL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.4 mi south of the city limits | −54 ft−16 m |
| Average of all land | −120 ft−35 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Imperial County, California, United States
- Population
- 28,188 2024 est.
- Land area
- 8.1 sq mi
- Density
- 3,485 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 32.9787° N, 115.5303° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Salton Sea basin (does not reach the sea)
- Airport
- Imperial County (IPL) −54 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 92227
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Calexico6 ft
- Holtville−10 ft
- Heber−14 ft
- El Centro−38 ft
- Seeley−40 ft
- El Centro Naval Air Facility−42 ft
- Imperial−55 ft
- Brawley−110 ft
- Niland−140 ft
- Westmorland−160 ft
- Calipatria−170 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,611th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Imperial County11th highest of 18
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Rabbit Peak6,650 ft
- Granite Mountain5,636 ft
- Whale Peak5,350 ft
- Black Butte, Riverside County4,500 ft
- Coyote Mountain3,194 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).
- 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, −190 ft at 33.0221° N, 115.5160° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.