Pinole, CA Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

780 ft 240 m590 ft 180 m490 ft 150 m290 ft 90 m98 ft 30 m0 ft 0 m

Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Pinole sits at about 140 ft (45 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

140 ft 45 m

most residents: 71–310 ft

Lowest

0 ft 0 m

at sea level on San Pablo Bay

Highest

780 ft 240 m

on the southeast side

Average

230 ft 70 m

all land inside city limits

Pinole spans about 780 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	140 ft45 m
Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side	780 ft240 m
Lowest point Where the land meets San Pablo Bay	0 ft0 m
Town center USGS map point for Pinole	100 ft30 m
Average of all land	230 ft70 m
Nearest peak Vollmer Peak, 6.5 mi southeast of the city limits (NGS survey)	1,916 ft584 m

Elevation profile, south to north

2.1 mi south to north through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: City in Contra Costa County, California, United States
Population: 18,663 2024 est.
Land area: 5.1 sq mi + 6.7 sq mi water
Density: 3,656 per sq mi
Coordinates: 38.0044° N, 122.2989° W
Time zone: Pacific UTC−8 / −7
Landform region: Pacific Border
Drains to: Pacific Ocean
ZIP codes 1: 94564

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in California1,229th highest of 1,622
Towns in Contra Costa County27th highest of 53

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Mount Diablo3,864 ft
Mount Tamalpais2,576 ft
Rocky Ridge2,020 ft
Vollmer Peak1,916 ft
Big Rock Ridge1,880 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.