Pajaro, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
48 ft 15 m40 ft 12 m36 ft 11 m27 ft 8 m19 ft 6 m15 ft 5 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Pajaro sits at about 29 ft (9 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
29 ft 9 m
most residents: 29–32 ft
Lowest
15 ft 5 m
on the west side
Highest
38 ft 12 m
on the east edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
30 ft 9 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Pajaro is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 23 ft, so the figures below sit close together.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 29 ft9 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east edge, below higher ground just outside | 38 ft12 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 15 ft5 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Pajaro | 32 ft10 m |
| Airport (WVI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.0 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 163 ft50 m |
| Average of all land | 30 ft9 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Monterey County, California, United States
- Population
- 2,882 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.9 sq mi
- Density
- 3,102 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.9041° N, 121.7486° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Watsonville Municipal (WVI) 163 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 95076
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Aromas440 ft
- Corralitos390 ft
- Aptos Hills-Larkin Valley380 ft
- Elkhorn260 ft
- Freedom160 ft
- Amesti150 ft
- Interlaken130 ft
- Las Lomas120 ft
- Watsonville55 ft
- Pajaro29 ft
- Pajaro Dunes16 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,542nd highest of 1,622
- Towns in Monterey County27th highest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Copernicus Peak4,360 ft
- Loma Prieta3,792 ft
- Mount Toro3,564 ft
- Mount Johnson3,468 ft
- Mount Bielawski3,234 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.
- Pajaro 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.