Clayton, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,080 ft 330 m890 ft 270 m790 ft 240 m600 ft 180 m400 ft 120 m300 ft 95 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
Clayton sits at about 490 ft (150 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
490 ft 150 m
most residents: 360–750 ft
Lowest
300 ft 90 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,080 ft 330 m
at the foot of the Black Hills
Average
570 ft 175 m
all land inside city limits
Clayton spans about 780 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 | 490 ft150 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, at the foot of the Black Hills | 1,080 ft330 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 300 ft90 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Clayton | 390 ft120 m |
| Airport (CCR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.0 mi northwest of the city limits | 26 ft8 m |
| Average of all land | 570 ft175 m |
| Nearest peak Mount Diablo, 2.6 mi south of the city limits (NGS survey) | 3,864 ft1,178 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Contra Costa County, California, United States
- Population
- 10,933 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.8 sq mi
- Density
- 2,847 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.9410° N, 121.9358° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Buchanan Field (CCR) 26 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 94517
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Diablo600 ft
- Clayton490 ft
- North Gate270 ft
- San Miguel250 ft
- Shell Ridge230 ft
- Walnut Creek170 ft
- Pittsburg97 ft
- Concord96 ft
- Contra Costa Centre88 ft
- Bay Point72 ft
- Pleasant Hill72 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California740th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Contra Costa County10th highest of 53
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Diablo3,864 ft
- Mount Allison2,664 ft
- Sunol Peak2,191 ft
- Rocky Ridge2,020 ft
- Vollmer Peak1,916 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 300 ft at 37.9543° N, 121.9535° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.