Piedmont, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
680 ft 205 m520 ft 160 m440 ft 135 m280 ft 85 m120 ft 35 m41 ft 13 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Piedmont sits at about 280 ft (85 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
280 ft 85 m
most residents: 110–500 ft
Lowest
41 ft 13 m
on the southwest side
Highest
680 ft 205 m
at the foot of the Berkeley Hills
Average
320 ft 100 m
all land inside city limits
Piedmont spans about 639 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 | 280 ft85 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, at the foot of the Berkeley Hills | 680 ft205 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 41 ft13 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Piedmont | 330 ft100 m |
| Airport (OAK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.3 mi south of the city limits | 9 ft3 m |
| Average of all land | 320 ft100 m |
| Nearest peak Vollmer Peak, 3.5 mi north of the city limits (NGS survey) | 1,916 ft584 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Alameda County, California, United States
- Population
- 10,816 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.7 sq mi
- Density
- 6,362 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.8244° N, 122.2316° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Oakland San Francisco Bay (OAK) 9 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 94611
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Orinda720 ft
- Moraga680 ft
- Kensington600 ft
- Lafayette450 ft
- Piedmont280 ft
- Berkeley190 ft
- El Cerrito110 ft
- Oakland70 ft
- Albany58 ft
- Emeryville18 ft
- Alameda15 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,000th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Alameda County6th highest of 20
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Diablo3,864 ft
- Mount Tamalpais2,576 ft
- Sunol Peak2,191 ft
- Rocky Ridge2,020 ft
- Vollmer Peak1,916 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.