Granite Bay, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
800 ft 245 m650 ft 200 m580 ft 175 m440 ft 135 m290 ft 90 m220 ft 65 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Granite Bay sits at about 360 ft (110 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
360 ft 110 m
most residents: 280–500 ft
Lowest
220 ft 65 m
on the southwest side
Highest
800 ft 245 m
on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
420 ft 130 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Granite Bay spans about 580 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 | 360 ft110 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 800 ft245 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 220 ft65 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Granite Bay | 430 ft130 m |
| Average of all land | 420 ft130 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Placer County, California, United States
- Population
- 21,247 2020 Census
- Land area
- 21.5 sq mi
- Density
- 986 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.7632° N, 121.1638° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Sacramento River → Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 2
- 95650 95746
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Newcastle810 ft
- El Dorado Hills760 ft
- Penryn530 ft
- Loomis370 ft
- Granite Bay360 ft
- Folsom350 ft
- Orangevale240 ft
- Rocklin230 ft
- Citrus Heights160 ft
- Roseville150 ft
- Antelope120 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California875th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Placer County17th highest of 21
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Dicks Peak9,950 ft
- Mount Price9,930 ft
- Granite Chief9,010 ft
- Snow Mountain, Placer County8,010 ft
- South Butte2,100 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).
- 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, 220 ft at 38.7390° N, 121.2254° 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.
- Granite Bay 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.