Murrieta, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,270 ft 690 m1,960 ft 595 m1,800 ft 550 m1,490 ft 455 m1,180 ft 360 m1,030 ft 315 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Murrieta sits at about 1,240 ft (380 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,240 ft 380 m
most residents: 1,130–1,520 ft
Lowest
1,030 ft 315 m
on the southeast side
Highest
2,270 ft 690 m
on the north side
Average
1,310 ft 400 m
all land inside city limits
Murrieta spans about 1,240 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 | 1,240 ft380 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 2,270 ft690 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 1,030 ft315 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Murrieta | 1,100 ft335 m |
| Airport (F70) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.4 mi east of the city limits | 1,350 ft411 m |
| Average of all land | 1,310 ft400 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Riverside County, California, United States
- Population
- 112,539 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.4 sq mi
- Density
- 3,179 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.5539° N, 117.2139° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- French Valley (F70) 1,350 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 92562 92563
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Menifee1,450 ft
- Canyon Lake1,430 ft
- Lake Elsinore1,400 ft
- French Valley1,380 ft
- Warm Springs1,360 ft
- Wildomar1,340 ft
- Lakeland Village1,310 ft
- Murrieta1,240 ft
- Rainbow1,200 ft
- Temecula1,150 ft
- Fallbrook720 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California501st highest of 1,622
- Towns in Riverside County38th highest of 75
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Thomas Mountain6,830 ft
- High Point6,143 ft
- Santiago Peak5,690 ft
- Cahuilla Mountain5,610 ft
- Estelle Mountain2,767 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 1,020 ft at 33.5221° N, 117.1846° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.