Carpinteria, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
280 ft 85 m210 ft 65 m170 ft 55 m110 ft 30 m38 ft 12 m4 ft 1 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
Carpinteria sits at about 27 ft (8 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
27 ft 8 m
most residents: 12–110 ft
Lowest
4 ft 1 m
near the middle
Highest
280 ft 85 m
at the foot of the Santa Ynez Mountains
Average
59 ft 18 m
all land inside city limits
Carpinteria spans about 276 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 | 27 ft8 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, at the foot of the Santa Ynez Mountains | 280 ft85 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, near the middle | 4 ft1 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Carpinteria | 26 ft8 m |
| Average of all land | 59 ft18 m |
| Nearest peak Rincon Mountain, 3.5 mi east of the city limits (NGS survey) | 2,162 ft659 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Santa Barbara County, California, United States
- Population
- 12,876 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.6 sq mi + 6.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 4,975 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.3989° N, 119.5185° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 93013
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Meiners Oaks760 ft
- Mira Monte650 ft
- Mission Canyon540 ft
- Oak View520 ft
- Montecito300 ft
- Toro Canyon210 ft
- North Ventura Avenue200 ft
- Summerland180 ft
- Santa Barbara120 ft
- Eastern Goleta Valley110 ft
- Carpinteria27 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,546th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Santa Barbara Countylowest of 28
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Reyes Peak7,500 ft
- Big Pine Mountain6,820 ft
- Divide Peak4,840 ft
- Sulphur Mountain2,820 ft
- Rincon Mountain2,162 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.