King City, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
390 ft 120 m360 ft 110 m340 ft 105 m310 ft 95 m280 ft 85 m260 ft 80 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
King City sits at about 320 ft (100 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
320 ft 100 m
most residents: 300–330 ft
Lowest
260 ft 80 m
on the northwest side
Highest
390 ft 120 m
on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
320 ft 100 m
all land inside city limits
King City spans about 130 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 | 320 ft100 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 390 ft120 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 260 ft80 m |
| Town center USGS map point for King City | 330 ft100 m |
| Airport (KIC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 374 ft114 m |
| Average of all land | 320 ft100 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Monterey County, California, United States
- Population
- 13,920 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.8 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,666 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.2127° N, 121.1260° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Salinas River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Mesa del Rey (KIC) 374 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 93930
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Fort Hunter Liggett1,090 ft
- Oak Shores1,010 ft
- Lockwood, Monterey County980 ft
- Bradley540 ft
- San Ardo440 ft
- San Lucas420 ft
- Pine Canyon410 ft
- King City320 ft
- Greenfield290 ft
- Soledad210 ft
- Gonzales140 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California936th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Monterey County9th highest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Junipero Serra Peak5,857 ft
- Pinyon Peak5,250 ft
- Laguna Mountain4,510 ft
- South Chalone Peak3,260 ft
- Williams Hill2,810 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.