Long Beach, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
230 ft 70 m170 ft 50 m140 ft 45 m84 ft 26 m28 ft 9 m0 ft 0 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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
Long Beach sits at about 39 ft (12 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
39 ft 12 m
most residents: 16–63 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on San Pedro Bay
Highest
230 ft 70 m
on the northeast side
Average
37 ft 11 m
all land inside city limits
Long Beach spans about 230 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 | 39 ft12 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 230 ft70 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets San Pedro Bay | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Long Beach | 33 ft10 m |
| Airport (LGB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 60 ft18 m |
| Average of all land | 37 ft11 m |
| Nearest peak San Pedro Hill, 5.1 mi west of the city limits | 1,480 ft450 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
13 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Los Angeles County, California, United States
- Population
- 450,901 2024 est.
- Land area
- 50.7 sq mi + 27.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 8,898 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.7670° N, 118.1892° 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 14
- 90802 90803 90804 90805 90806 90807 90808 90810 90813 90814 90815 90822 90831 90840
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Signal Hill100 ft
- Lomita92 ft
- Paramount74 ft
- Lakewood51 ft
- West Carson41 ft
- Long Beach39 ft
- Carson35 ft
- Hawaiian Gardens32 ft
- Los Alamitos25 ft
- Rossmoor16 ft
- Seal Beach12 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,517th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Los Angeles County139th highest of 142
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- San Gabriel Peak6,150 ft
- Monrovia Peak5,390 ft
- Mount Orizaba2,100 ft
- Silver Peak, Los Angeles County1,790 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).
- 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, −16 ft at 33.7635° N, 118.2296° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted; this coastal land's lowest point is sea level on the coast.
- 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.