Monte Sereno, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
840 ft 255 m710 ft 215 m640 ft 195 m510 ft 155 m380 ft 115 m310 ft 95 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
Monte Sereno sits at about 420 ft (125 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
420 ft 125 m
most residents: 370–580 ft
Lowest
310 ft 95 m
on the northeast side
Highest
840 ft 255 m
at the foot of the Santa Cruz Mountains
Average
460 ft 140 m
all land inside city limits
Monte Sereno spans about 530 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 | 420 ft125 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, at the foot of the Santa Cruz Mountains | 840 ft255 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 310 ft95 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Monte Sereno | 500 ft155 m |
| Airport (SJC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.0 mi north of the city limits | 62 ft19 m |
| Average of all land | 460 ft140 m |
| Nearest peak Mount Bielawski, 4.9 mi west of the city limits (NGS survey) | 3,234 ft986 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Santa Clara County, California, United States
- Population
- 3,563 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.6 sq mi
- Density
- 2,181 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.2363° N, 121.9925° 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 1
- 95030
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lexington Hills1,400 ft
- Monte Sereno420 ft
- Saratoga360 ft
- Los Gatos360 ft
- Cupertino260 ft
- Cambrian Park240 ft
- Campbell210 ft
- San Jose160 ft
- Fruitdale160 ft
- Burbank, Santa Clara County120 ft
- Santa Clara81 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California800th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Santa Clara County3rd highest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Copernicus Peak4,360 ft
- Black Mountain, Santa Clara County3,955 ft
- Loma Prieta3,792 ft
- Mount Bielawski3,234 ft
- Mount Allison2,664 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.