Los Altos, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
440 ft 135 m350 ft 105 m300 ft 90 m200 ft 60 m110 ft 35 m60 ft 18 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
Los Altos sits at about 180 ft (55 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
180 ft 55 m
most residents: 96–260 ft
Lowest
60 ft 18 m
on the north side
Highest
440 ft 135 m
at the foot of the Santa Cruz Mountains
Average
190 ft 60 m
all land inside city limits
Los Altos spans about 380 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 | 180 ft55 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, at the foot of the Santa Cruz Mountains | 440 ft135 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 60 ft18 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Los Altos | 160 ft50 m |
| Airport (SJC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.3 mi east of the city limits | 62 ft19 m |
| Average of all land | 190 ft60 m |
| Nearest peak Mount Bielawski, 7.4 mi south of the city limits (NGS survey) | 3,234 ft986 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Santa Clara County, California, United States
- Population
- 30,864 2024 est.
- Land area
- 6.5 sq mi
- Density
- 4,720 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.3852° N, 122.1141° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Mineta San Jose International (SJC) 62 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 94022 94024
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Los Altos Hills440 ft
- Ladera350 ft
- Loyola300 ft
- Los Altos180 ft
- West Menlo Park130 ft
- Sunnyvale100 ft
- Stanford81 ft
- Mountain View78 ft
- Menlo Park60 ft
- Palo Alto32 ft
- East Palo Alto16 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,141st highest of 1,622
- Towns in Santa Clara County14th highest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Loma Prieta3,792 ft
- Mount Bielawski3,234 ft
- Mount Allison2,664 ft
- Sunol Peak2,191 ft
- Scarpet Peak1,930 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.