Mount Laguna, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
6,090 ft 1,855 m5,940 ft 1,810 m5,870 ft 1,790 m5,720 ft 1,745 m5,570 ft 1,700 m5,500 ft 1,675 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
Mount Laguna sits at about 5,940 ft (1,810 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
5,940 ft 1,810 m
most residents: 5,800–5,950 ft
Lowest
5,500 ft 1,675 m
on the west side
Highest
6,090 ft 1,855 m
on the southwest side
Average
5,850 ft 1,785 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Mount Laguna spans about 590 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 | 5,940 ft1,810 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 6,090 ft1,855 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 5,500 ft1,675 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Mount Laguna | 5,970 ft1,820 m |
| Average of all land | 5,850 ft1,785 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 5,940 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
201.0 °F93.9 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
80% of sea level
24.0 inHg (81.4 kPa): each breath holds 20% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
16.8% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+12% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in San Diego County, California, United States
- Population
- 74 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.7 sq mi
- Density
- 44 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 32.8723° N, 116.4183° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Lower Californian
- Drains to
- Cottonwood Creek → Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 91948
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mount Laguna5,940 ft
- Julian4,230 ft
- Pine Valley3,770 ft
- Descanso3,770 ft
- Boulevard3,710 ft
- Campo2,900 ft
- Jacumba2,800 ft
- Potrero2,350 ft
- Alpine1,910 ft
- San Diego Country Estates1,590 ft
- Harbison Canyon1,210 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California37th highest of 1,622
- Towns in San Diego Countyhighest of 57
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cuyamaca Peak6,508 ft
- North Peak5,980 ft
- Granite Mountain5,636 ft
- Whale Peak5,350 ft
- Viejas Mountain4,189 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).
- Altitude effects: standard-atmosphere formulas applied to the typical elevation; UV from EPA's rule of thumb (about 2% per 1,000 ft).
- 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.
- Mount Laguna 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.