Capitola, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
140 ft 45 m110 ft 35 m90 ft 28 m56 ft 17 m22 ft 7 m5 ft 2 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Capitola sits at about 89 ft (27 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
89 ft 27 m
most residents: 51–110 ft
Lowest
5 ft 2 m
near the middle
Highest
140 ft 45 m
at the foot of the Sierra Azul
Average
82 ft 25 m
all land inside city limits
Capitola spans about 135 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 | 89 ft27 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, at the foot of the Sierra Azul | 140 ft45 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, near the middle | 5 ft2 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Capitola | 28 ft9 m |
| Average of all land | 82 ft25 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Santa Cruz County, California, United States
- Population
- 9,503 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.6 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 5,962 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.9752° N, 121.9533° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 95010
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pasatiempo400 ft
- Aptos230 ft
- Soquel160 ft
- Rio del Mar150 ft
- Seacliff140 ft
- Capitola89 ft
- Live Oak84 ft
- Santa Cruz70 ft
- Paradise Park64 ft
- Twin Lakes52 ft
- Pleasure Point45 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,363rd highest of 1,622
- Towns in Santa Cruz County23rd highest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Copernicus Peak4,360 ft
- Black Mountain, Santa Clara County3,955 ft
- Loma Prieta3,792 ft
- Mount Bielawski3,234 ft
- Mount Allison2,664 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.