Monrovia, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,800 ft 1,155 m2,900 ft 885 m2,460 ft 750 m1,570 ft 475 m670 ft 205 m230 ft 70 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
Monrovia sits at about 530 ft (160 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
530 ft 160 m
most residents: 440–700 ft
Lowest
230 ft 70 m
on the south side
Highest
3,800 ft 1,155 m
at the foot of the Transverse Ranges
Average
1,450 ft 440 m
all land inside city limits
Monrovia spans about 3,570 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 | 530 ft160 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, at the foot of the Transverse Ranges | 3,800 ft1,155 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 230 ft70 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Monrovia | 570 ft175 m |
| Airport (EMT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.6 mi southwest of the city limits | 296 ft90 m |
| Average of all land | 1,450 ft440 m |
| Nearest peak Monrovia Peak, 1.3 mi north of the city limits | 5,390 ft1,645 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Los Angeles County, California, United States
- Population
- 37,787 2024 est.
- Land area
- 13.6 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,772 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.1481° N, 117.9990° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- San Gabriel Valley (EMT) 296 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 91016
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sierra Madre890 ft
- Bradbury780 ft
- East Pasadena630 ft
- Duarte540 ft
- Monrovia530 ft
- Arcadia470 ft
- Irwindale450 ft
- South Monrovia Island390 ft
- Temple City360 ft
- Mayflower Village360 ft
- North El Monte330 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California715th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Los Angeles County54th highest of 142
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Waterman Mountain8,030 ft
- Pacifico Mountain7,137 ft
- San Gabriel Peak6,150 ft
- Monrovia Peak5,390 ft
- Mount Lukens5,076 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.