Richmond, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,160 ft 355 m870 ft 265 m720 ft 220 m430 ft 135 m140 ft 45 m0 ft 0 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
Richmond sits at about 54 ft (17 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
54 ft 17 m
most residents: 17–240 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on San Francisco Bay
Highest
1,160 ft 355 m
on the east side
Average
200 ft 60 m
all land inside city limits
Richmond spans about 1,160 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 | 54 ft17 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 1,160 ft355 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets San Francisco Bay | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Richmond | 44 ft14 m |
| Average of all land | 200 ft60 m |
| Nearest peak Mount Tamalpais, 8.8 mi west of the city limits (NGS survey) | 2,576 ft785 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
9.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Contra Costa County, California, United States
- Population
- 115,353 2024 est.
- Land area
- 30.1 sq mi + 22.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,839 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.9358° N, 122.3477° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 6
- 94530 94801 94803 94804 94805 94806
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Kensington600 ft
- East Richmond Heights330 ft
- El Sobrante240 ft
- El Cerrito110 ft
- Tara Hills98 ft
- Rollingwood78 ft
- Albany58 ft
- Richmond54 ft
- Montalvin Manor53 ft
- San Pablo47 ft
- North Richmond14 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,469th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Contra Costa County41st 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, −4 ft at 37.9435° N, 122.3882° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted; this coastal land's lowest point is sea level on the coast.
- 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.