Pleasant Hill, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
440 ft 135 m340 ft 100 m280 ft 85 m170 ft 55 m68 ft 21 m14 ft 4 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
Pleasant Hill sits at about 72 ft (22 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
72 ft 22 m
most residents: 42–210 ft
Lowest
14 ft 4 m
on the north side
Highest
440 ft 135 m
at the foot of the Briones Hills
Average
120 ft 35 m
all land inside city limits
Pleasant Hill spans about 426 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 | 72 ft22 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, at the foot of the Briones Hills | 440 ft135 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 14 ft4 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Pleasant Hill | 54 ft17 m |
| Airport (CCR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.7 mi north of the city limits | 26 ft8 m |
| Average of all land | 120 ft35 m |
| Nearest peak Rocky Ridge, 7.7 mi south of the city limits | 2,020 ft615 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Contra Costa County, California, United States
- Population
- 34,169 2024 est.
- Land area
- 7.1 sq mi
- Density
- 4,830 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.9480° N, 122.0608° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Buchanan Field (CCR) 26 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 94523
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Acalanes Ridge410 ft
- Reliez Valley290 ft
- North Gate270 ft
- Alhambra Valley250 ft
- Shell Ridge230 ft
- Saranap200 ft
- Walnut Creek170 ft
- Concord96 ft
- Contra Costa Centre88 ft
- Pleasant Hill72 ft
- Pacheco27 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,418th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Contra Costa County39th highest of 53
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.