Rancho Santa Fe, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
370 ft 115 m280 ft 85 m240 ft 75 m150 ft 45 m69 ft 21 m26 ft 8 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 Santa Fe sits at about 220 ft (65 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
220 ft 65 m
most residents: 150–280 ft
Lowest
26 ft 8 m
on the south side
Highest
370 ft 115 m
on the east side
Average
210 ft 65 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Rancho Santa Fe spans about 344 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 | 220 ft65 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 370 ft115 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 26 ft8 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Rancho Santa Fe | 250 ft75 m |
| Airport (CRQ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.1 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 331 ft101 m |
| Average of all land | 210 ft65 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in San Diego County, California, United States
- Population
- 3,156 2020 Census
- Land area
- 6.7 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 470 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.0203° N, 117.2028° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Lower Californian
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Mc Clellan-Palomar (CRQ) 331 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 92067
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Escondido690 ft
- San Marcos650 ft
- Harmony Grove620 ft
- Elfin Forest580 ft
- Lake San Marcos570 ft
- Del Dios390 ft
- Encinitas220 ft
- Rancho Santa Fe220 ft
- Fairbanks Ranch180 ft
- Del Mar160 ft
- Solana Beach120 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,077th highest of 1,622
- Towns in San Diego County47th highest of 57
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Angel Mountain4,554 ft
- Pine Mountain, San Diego County4,210 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 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 Santa Fe 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.