Rancho San Diego, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,170 ft 355 m960 ft 290 m850 ft 260 m630 ft 195 m420 ft 125 m310 ft 95 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
Rancho San Diego sits at about 560 ft (170 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
560 ft 170 m
most residents: 380–780 ft
Lowest
310 ft 95 m
on the south side
Highest
1,170 ft 355 m
on the northeast side
Average
600 ft 180 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Rancho San Diego spans about 860 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 | 560 ft170 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 1,170 ft355 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 310 ft95 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Rancho San Diego | 370 ft110 m |
| Airport (SAN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 13 mi west of the CDP boundary | 17 ft5 m |
| Average of all land | 600 ft180 m |
| Nearest peak San Miguel Mountain, 2.6 mi south of the CDP boundary (NGS survey) | 2,569 ft783 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in San Diego County, California, United States
- Population
- 21,858 2020 Census
- Land area
- 8.7 sq mi
- Density
- 2,514 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 32.7473° N, 116.9353° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Lower Californian
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- San Diego International (SAN) 17 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 91941 92019
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Crest1,540 ft
- Jamul1,000 ft
- Granite Hills650 ft
- Casa de Oro-Mount Helix640 ft
- Rancho San Diego560 ft
- La Mesa550 ft
- Spring Valley490 ft
- El Cajon480 ft
- Bostonia470 ft
- Lemon Grove430 ft
- La Presa340 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California700th highest of 1,622
- Towns in San Diego County31st highest of 57
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Viejas Mountain4,189 ft
- Lyons Peak3,741 ft
- El Cajon Mountain3,677 ft
- Otay Mountain3,560 ft
- San Miguel Mountain2,569 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.
- Rancho San Diego 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.