El Cerrito, Riverside County, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,110 ft 335 m1,000 ft 305 m950 ft 290 m840 ft 260 m740 ft 225 m690 ft 210 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
El Cerrito, Riverside County sits at about 930 ft (285 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
930 ft 285 m
most residents: 870–1,010 ft
Lowest
690 ft 210 m
on the north side
Highest
1,110 ft 335 m
at the foot of the Santa Ana Mountains
Average
910 ft 275 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
El Cerrito, Riverside County spans about 420 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 | 930 ft285 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Santa Ana Mountains | 1,110 ft335 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 690 ft210 m |
| Town center USGS map point for El Cerrito, Riverside County | 860 ft265 m |
| Airport (AJO) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.9 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 533 ft162 m |
| Average of all land | 910 ft275 m |
| Nearest peak Estelle Mountain, 6.1 mi southeast of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 2,767 ft843 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Riverside County, California, United States
- Population
- 5,058 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.6 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,944 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.8406° N, 117.5228° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Temescal Wash → Santa Ana River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Corona Municipal (AJO) 533 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 92881
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lake Mathews1,660 ft
- Silverado1,650 ft
- Woodcrest1,490 ft
- El Sobrante, Riverside County1,230 ft
- Temescal Valley1,230 ft
- El Cerrito, Riverside County930 ft
- Corona800 ft
- Home Gardens690 ft
- Coronita690 ft
- Norco650 ft
- Eastvale620 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California575th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Riverside County47th highest of 75
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cucamonga Peak8,850 ft
- Santiago Peak5,690 ft
- Sunset Peak5,580 ft
- Estelle Mountain2,767 ft
- Mount Jurupa2,225 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.
- El Cerrito, Riverside County 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.