Burbank, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,960 ft 900 m2,340 ft 710 m2,030 ft 620 m1,410 ft 430 m790 ft 240 m480 ft 145 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
Burbank sits at about 620 ft (190 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
620 ft 190 m
most residents: 530–750 ft
Lowest
480 ft 145 m
on the south side
Highest
2,960 ft 900 m
on the north side
Average
880 ft 265 m
all land inside city limits
Burbank spans about 2,480 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 | 620 ft190 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 2,960 ft900 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 480 ft145 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Burbank | 610 ft185 m |
| Airport (BUR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 778 ft237 m |
| Average of all land | 880 ft265 m |
| Nearest peak Mount Lukens, 4.5 mi northeast of the city limits (NGS survey) | 5,076 ft1,547 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Los Angeles County, California, United States
- Population
- 103,533 2024 est.
- Land area
- 17.3 sq mi
- Density
- 5,979 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.1808° N, 118.3090° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Los Angeles River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Hollywood Burbank (BUR) 778 ft
- ZIP codes 5
- 91501 91502 91504 91505 91506
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- La Crescenta-Montrose1,610 ft
- La Cañada Flintridge1,480 ft
- Altadena1,210 ft
- San Fernando1,110 ft
- Pasadena870 ft
- South Pasadena650 ft
- Burbank620 ft
- Glendale580 ft
- Los Angeles370 ft
- West Hollywood280 ft
- Beverly Hills220 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California673rd highest of 1,622
- Towns in Los Angeles County45th highest of 142
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Gleason6,530 ft
- San Gabriel Peak6,150 ft
- Monrovia Peak5,390 ft
- Mount Lukens5,076 ft
- Oat Mountain3,765 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.