Rio del Mar, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
390 ft 120 m300 ft 90 m250 ft 75 m150 ft 45 m55 ft 17 m7 ft 2 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
Rio del Mar sits at about 150 ft (45 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
150 ft 45 m
most residents: 51–270 ft
Lowest
7 ft 2 m
near the middle
Highest
390 ft 120 m
on the east side
Average
160 ft 50 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Rio del Mar spans about 383 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 | 150 ft45 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 390 ft120 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, near the middle | 7 ft2 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Rio del Mar | 140 ft45 m |
| Airport (WVI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.1 mi east of the CDP boundary | 163 ft50 m |
| Average of all land | 160 ft50 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Santa Cruz County, California, United States
- Population
- 9,128 2020 Census
- Land area
- 3.0 sq mi + 1.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,043 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.9683° N, 121.9002° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Watsonville Municipal (WVI) 163 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 95003
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Day Valley630 ft
- Corralitos390 ft
- Aptos Hills-Larkin Valley380 ft
- Aptos230 ft
- Soquel160 ft
- La Selva Beach150 ft
- Rio del Mar150 ft
- Seacliff140 ft
- Capitola89 ft
- Live Oak84 ft
- Pleasure Point45 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,217th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Santa Cruz County19th highest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Copernicus Peak4,360 ft
- Black Mountain, Santa Clara County3,955 ft
- Loma Prieta3,792 ft
- Mount Toro3,564 ft
- Mount Bielawski3,234 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.
- Rio del Mar is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS and Watershed Boundary Dataset; 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.