Gilroy, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,410 ft 430 m1,090 ft 335 m940 ft 285 m620 ft 190 m300 ft 90 m140 ft 45 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
Gilroy sits at about 220 ft (65 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
220 ft 65 m
most residents: 200–260 ft
Lowest
140 ft 45 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,410 ft 430 m
on the west edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
320 ft 95 m
all land inside city limits
Gilroy spans about 1,270 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 | 220 ft65 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,410 ft430 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 140 ft45 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Gilroy | 200 ft60 m |
| Airport (E16) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.3 mi north of the city limits | 284 ft87 m |
| Average of all land | 320 ft95 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Santa Clara County, California, United States
- Population
- 60,390 2024 est.
- Land area
- 16.6 sq mi
- Density
- 3,643 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.0058° N, 121.5683° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- San Martin (E16) 284 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 95020
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Aromas440 ft
- Corralitos390 ft
- Morgan Hill360 ft
- San Martin290 ft
- Gilroy220 ft
- San Juan Bautista210 ft
- Freedom160 ft
- Amesti150 ft
- Interlaken130 ft
- Watsonville55 ft
- Pajaro29 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,084th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Santa Clara County12th highest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Copernicus Peak4,360 ft
- Black Mountain, Santa Clara County3,955 ft
- Mount Stakes3,810 ft
- Loma Prieta3,792 ft
- Potrero Peak3,730 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.