La Palma, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
76 ft 23 m64 ft 20 m59 ft 18 m47 ft 14 m35 ft 11 m30 ft 9 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
La Palma sits at about 46 ft (14 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
46 ft 14 m
most residents: 42–51 ft
Lowest
30 ft 9 m
on the north side
Highest
76 ft 23 m
on the northeast side
Average
48 ft 15 m
all land inside city limits
La Palma spans about 46 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 | 46 ft14 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 76 ft23 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 30 ft9 m |
| Town center USGS map point for La Palma | 44 ft13 m |
| Airport (LGB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.7 mi west of the city limits | 60 ft18 m |
| Average of all land | 48 ft15 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Orange County, California, United States
- Population
- 15,092 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.8 sq mi
- Density
- 8,474 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.8464° N, 118.0467° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Long Beach (Daugherty Field) (LGB) 60 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 90623
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Norwalk91 ft
- Buena Park72 ft
- Bellflower72 ft
- Stanton64 ft
- Artesia55 ft
- Cerritos54 ft
- La Palma46 ft
- Cypress40 ft
- Hawaiian Gardens32 ft
- Los Alamitos25 ft
- Rossmoor16 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,497th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Orange County39th highest of 47
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- San Gabriel Peak6,150 ft
- Santiago Peak5,690 ft
- Monrovia Peak5,390 ft
- Mount Lukens5,076 ft
- San Pedro Hill1,480 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.