Guadalupe, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
110 ft 30 m93 ft 28 m87 ft 26 m74 ft 23 m62 ft 19 m56 ft 17 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
Guadalupe sits at about 84 ft (26 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
84 ft 26 m
most residents: 73–92 ft
Lowest
56 ft 17 m
on the southwest side
Highest
110 ft 30 m
on the south side
Average
84 ft 26 m
all land inside city limits
Guadalupe spans about 54 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 | 84 ft26 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 110 ft30 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 56 ft17 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Guadalupe | 85 ft26 m |
| Airport (SMX) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.9 mi southeast of the city limits | 261 ft80 m |
| Average of all land | 84 ft26 m |
| Nearest peak Mount Lospe, 4.0 mi south of the city limits | 1,650 ft505 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Santa Barbara County, California, United States
- Population
- 8,735 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.3 sq mi
- Density
- 6,663 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.9716° N, 120.5718° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Santa Maria Pub/Capt G Allan Hancock Field (SMX) 261 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 93434
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Orcutt390 ft
- Blacklake350 ft
- Nipomo340 ft
- Los Berros270 ft
- Casmalia270 ft
- Woodlands240 ft
- Santa Maria220 ft
- Callender150 ft
- Arroyo Grande120 ft
- Guadalupe84 ft
- Oceano55 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,379th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Santa Barbara County24th highest of 28
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Tepusquet Peak3,240 ft
- Hi Mountain3,190 ft
- Pine Ridge, San Luis Obispo County3,190 ft
- Oak Mountain2,060 ft
- Mount Lospe1,650 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. All public domain.