Poway, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,670 ft 815 m2,090 ft 635 m1,800 ft 545 m1,220 ft 370 m640 ft 195 m350 ft 105 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Poway sits at about 590 ft (180 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
590 ft 180 m
most residents: 470–840 ft
Lowest
350 ft 105 m
on the north side
Highest
2,670 ft 815 m
on Iron Mountain
Average
950 ft 290 m
all land inside city limits
Poway spans about 2,320 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 | 590 ft180 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on Iron Mountain | 2,670 ft815 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 350 ft105 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Poway | 510 ft155 m |
| Airport (RNM) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.6 mi northeast of the city limits | 1,395 ft425 m |
| Average of all land | 950 ft290 m |
| Nearest peak El Cajon Mountain, 8.0 mi east of the city limits (NGS survey) | 3,677 ft1,121 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in San Diego County, California, United States
- Population
- 49,435 2024 est.
- Land area
- 39.1 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,265 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 32.9628° N, 117.0359° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Lower Californian
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Ramona (RNM) 1,395 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 92064 92065
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ramona1,440 ft
- Harmony Grove620 ft
- Winter Gardens620 ft
- Eucalyptus Hills600 ft
- Poway590 ft
- Lakeside590 ft
- Elfin Forest580 ft
- Del Dios390 ft
- Santee390 ft
- Rancho Santa Fe220 ft
- Fairbanks Ranch180 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California683rd highest of 1,622
- Towns in San Diego County27th highest of 57
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pine Mountain, San Diego County4,210 ft
- Viejas Mountain4,189 ft
- El Cajon Mountain3,677 ft
- Woodson Mountain2,901 ft
- San Miguel Mountain2,569 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.