Cambria, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
720 ft 220 m540 ft 165 m450 ft 135 m270 ft 80 m90 ft 27 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Cambria sits at about 240 ft (75 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
240 ft 75 m
most residents: 66–390 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on the Pacific Ocean
Highest
720 ft 220 m
on the south side
Average
260 ft 80 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Cambria spans about 720 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 | 240 ft75 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 720 ft220 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets the Pacific Ocean | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Cambria | 54 ft16 m |
| Average of all land | 260 ft80 m |
| Nearest peak Pine Mountain, San Luis Obispo County, 7.0 mi north of the CDP boundary | 3,580 ft1,095 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in San Luis Obispo County, California, United States
- Population
- 5,678 2020 Census
- Land area
- 8.4 sq mi
- Density
- 675 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.5641° N, 121.0807° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 93428
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Oak Shores1,010 ft
- Lake Nacimiento990 ft
- Atascadero940 ft
- Templeton830 ft
- El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles)800 ft
- San Miguel, San Luis Obispo County620 ft
- Cambria240 ft
- Los Osos96 ft
- Morro Bay73 ft
- San Simeon69 ft
- Cayucos57 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,045th highest of 1,622
- Towns in San Luis Obispo County18th highest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Junipero Serra Peak5,857 ft
- Pine Mountain, San Luis Obispo County3,580 ft
- Hi Mountain3,190 ft
- Williams Hill2,810 ft
- Pine Top Mountain2,640 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Cambria is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.