Montebello, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
580 ft 180 m470 ft 145 m420 ft 125 m310 ft 95 m200 ft 60 m140 ft 45 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
Montebello sits at about 210 ft (65 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
210 ft 65 m
most residents: 190–330 ft
Lowest
140 ft 45 m
on the south side
Highest
580 ft 180 m
on the north side
Average
260 ft 80 m
all land inside city limits
Montebello spans about 440 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 | 210 ft65 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 580 ft180 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 140 ft45 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Montebello | 210 ft65 m |
| Airport (LGB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi south of the city limits | 60 ft18 m |
| Average of all land | 260 ft80 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Los Angeles County, California, United States
- Population
- 60,617 2024 est.
- Land area
- 8.3 sq mi
- Density
- 7,279 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.0094° N, 118.1053° 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 1
- 90640
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Rose Hills570 ft
- Monterey Park390 ft
- South San Gabriel340 ft
- South El Monte240 ft
- East Los Angeles230 ft
- Montebello210 ft
- Pico Rivera170 ft
- West Whittier-Los Nietos160 ft
- Commerce150 ft
- Santa Fe Springs140 ft
- Bell Gardens130 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,098th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Los Angeles County89th highest of 142
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Waterman Mountain8,030 ft
- San Gabriel Peak6,150 ft
- Monrovia Peak5,390 ft
- Mount Lukens5,076 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).
- 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.