Pacific Grove, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
520 ft 160 m390 ft 120 m320 ft 100 m190 ft 60 m65 ft 20 m0 ft 0 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
Pacific Grove sits at about 170 ft (50 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
170 ft 50 m
most residents: 62–340 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Monterey Bay
Highest
520 ft 160 m
on the south side
Average
150 ft 45 m
all land inside city limits
Pacific Grove spans about 520 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 | 170 ft50 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 520 ft160 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Monterey Bay | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Pacific Grove | 150 ft45 m |
| Airport (MRY) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.9 mi southeast of the city limits | 257 ft78 m |
| Average of all land | 150 ft45 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Monterey County, California, United States
- Population
- 14,851 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.9 sq mi + 1.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 5,169 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.6177° N, 121.9166° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Monterey Regional (MRY) 257 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 93950
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Carmel Valley Village660 ft
- Carmel-by-the-Sea200 ft
- Del Monte Forest190 ft
- Monterey170 ft
- Pacific Grove170 ft
- Del Rey Oaks140 ft
- Seaside130 ft
- Marina77 ft
- Boronda52 ft
- Sand City25 ft
- Castroville18 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,156th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Monterey County17th highest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Chews Ridge5,082 ft
- Palo Escrito Peak4,460 ft
- Loma Prieta3,792 ft
- Pico Blanco3,690 ft
- Mount Toro3,564 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.