Los Altos Hills, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,210 ft 370 m940 ft 285 m800 ft 245 m530 ft 160 m260 ft 80 m130 ft 40 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Los Altos Hills sits at about 440 ft (135 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
440 ft 135 m
most residents: 230–690 ft
Lowest
130 ft 40 m
on the north side
Highest
1,210 ft 370 m
on the south edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
430 ft 135 m
all land inside town limits
Los Altos Hills spans about 1,080 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 | 440 ft135 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the south edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,210 ft370 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the north side | 130 ft40 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Los Altos Hills | 280 ft85 m |
| Airport (SJC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.3 mi east of the town limits | 62 ft19 m |
| Average of all land | 430 ft135 m |
| Nearest peak Mount Bielawski, 7.8 mi south of the town limits (NGS survey) | 3,234 ft986 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Santa Clara County, California, United States
- Population
- 8,435 2024 est.
- Land area
- 9.1 sq mi
- Density
- 930 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.3797° N, 122.1375° 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
- Portola Valley630 ft
- 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
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California782nd highest of 1,622
- Towns in Santa Clara County2nd 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 town 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 town 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.