Escondido, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,140 ft 650 m1,680 ft 515 m1,460 ft 445 m1,010 ft 305 m550 ft 170 m330 ft 100 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
Escondido sits at about 690 ft (210 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
690 ft 210 m
most residents: 650–820 ft
Lowest
330 ft 100 m
on the south side
Highest
2,135 ft 651 m
on Burnt Mountain
Average
850 ft 260 m
all land inside city limits
Escondido spans about 1,810 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 | 690 ft210 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on Burnt Mountain | 2,135 ft651 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 330 ft100 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Escondido | 650 ft200 m |
| Airport (CRQ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.2 mi west of the city limits | 331 ft101 m |
| Average of all land | 850 ft260 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
7.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in San Diego County, California, United States
- Population
- 148,847 2024 est.
- Land area
- 37.3 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,986 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.1192° N, 117.0864° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Lower Californian
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Mc Clellan-Palomar (CRQ) 331 ft
- ZIP codes 5
- 92025 92026 92027 92029 92082
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Valley Center1,520 ft
- Hidden Meadows1,420 ft
- Escondido690 ft
- San Marcos650 ft
- Harmony Grove620 ft
- Elfin Forest580 ft
- Lake San Marcos570 ft
- Vista420 ft
- Del Dios390 ft
- Rancho Santa Fe220 ft
- Fairbanks Ranch180 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California632nd highest of 1,622
- Towns in San Diego County19th highest of 57
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- High Point6,143 ft
- Angel Mountain4,554 ft
- Pine Mountain, San Diego County4,210 ft
- El Cajon Mountain3,677 ft
- Woodson Mountain2,901 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.