Montecito, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,360 ft 415 m1,020 ft 310 m850 ft 260 m520 ft 155 m180 ft 55 m7 ft 2 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Montecito sits at about 300 ft (90 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
300 ft 90 m
most residents: 53–580 ft
Lowest
7 ft 2 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,360 ft 415 m
at the foot of the Santa Ynez Mountains
Average
390 ft 120 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Montecito spans about 1,353 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 | 300 ft90 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Santa Ynez Mountains | 1,360 ft415 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 7 ft2 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Montecito | 190 ft60 m |
| Airport (SBA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.5 mi west of the CDP boundary | 14 ft4 m |
| Average of all land | 390 ft120 m |
| Nearest peak Divide Peak, 8.9 mi east of the CDP boundary | 4,840 ft1,475 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Santa Barbara County, California, United States
- Population
- 8,638 2020 Census
- Land area
- 9.2 sq mi + 7.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 941 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.4367° N, 119.6321° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Santa Barbara Municipal (SBA) 14 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 93108
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mission Canyon540 ft
- Oak View520 ft
- Montecito300 ft
- Toro Canyon210 ft
- Summerland180 ft
- Santa Barbara120 ft
- Eastern Goleta Valley110 ft
- Goleta49 ft
- Isla Vista42 ft
- University of California-Santa Barbara30 ft
- Carpinteria27 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California966th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Santa Barbara County16th highest of 28
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Big Pine Mountain6,820 ft
- San Rafael Mountain6,570 ft
- Divide Peak4,840 ft
- Santa Ynez Peak4,290 ft
- Rincon Mountain2,162 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Montecito is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.