Pala, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,910 ft 585 m1,520 ft 465 m1,320 ft 405 m930 ft 285 m530 ft 165 m340 ft 105 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
Pala sits at about 420 ft (125 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
420 ft 125 m
most residents: 380–470 ft
Lowest
340 ft 105 m
on the west side
Highest
1,910 ft 585 m
on the southeast side
Average
570 ft 175 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Pala spans about 1,570 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 | 420 ft125 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 1,910 ft585 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 340 ft105 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Pala | 400 ft120 m |
| Average of all land | 570 ft175 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in San Diego County, California, United States
- Population
- 1,490 2020 Census
- Land area
- 5.6 sq mi
- Density
- 267 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.3653° N, 117.0767° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Lower Californian
- Drains to
- San Luis Rey River → Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 92059
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Aguanga2,130 ft
- Valley Center1,520 ft
- Hidden Meadows1,420 ft
- Murrieta1,240 ft
- Rainbow1,200 ft
- Temecula1,150 ft
- Fallbrook720 ft
- Bonsall420 ft
- Vista420 ft
- Pala420 ft
- Camp Pendleton Mainside290 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California799th highest of 1,622
- Towns in San Diego County39th highest of 57
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- High Point6,143 ft
- Cahuilla Mountain5,610 ft
- Angel Mountain4,554 ft
- Pine Mountain, San Diego County4,210 ft
- Woodson Mountain2,901 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.
- Pala 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.