Cathedral City, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,390 ft 425 m1,100 ft 335 m960 ft 290 m670 ft 205 m380 ft 115 m240 ft 70 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Cathedral City sits at about 370 ft (110 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
370 ft 110 m
most residents: 320–420 ft
Lowest
240 ft 70 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,390 ft 425 m
on the north side
Average
490 ft 150 m
all land inside city limits
Cathedral City spans about 1,150 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 | 370 ft110 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 1,390 ft425 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 240 ft70 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Cathedral City | 330 ft100 m |
| Airport (PSP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.8 mi northwest of the city limits | 477 ft145 m |
| Average of all land | 490 ft150 m |
| Nearest peak Palm View Peak, 8.4 mi southwest of the city limits | 7,160 ft2,180 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
8.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Riverside County, California, United States
- Population
- 52,517 2024 est.
- Land area
- 22.5 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,337 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.7797° N, 116.4653° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Whitewater River → Salton Sea basin (does not reach the sea)
- Airport
- Palm Springs International (PSP) 477 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 92234 92276
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sky Valley1,160 ft
- Desert Edge1,000 ft
- Garnet850 ft
- Palm Springs450 ft
- Cathedral City370 ft
- Rancho Mirage280 ft
- Thousand Palms240 ft
- Palm Desert200 ft
- Indian Wells170 ft
- Desert Palms110 ft
- Bermuda Dunes89 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California864th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Riverside County59th highest of 75
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- San Jacinto Peak10,780 ft
- Palm View Peak7,160 ft
- Thomas Mountain6,830 ft
- Quail Mountain5,820 ft
- Asbestos Mountain5,250 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. All public domain.