Riverside, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,950 ft 595 m1,630 ft 495 m1,470 ft 445 m1,140 ft 350 m820 ft 250 m660 ft 200 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
Riverside sits at about 830 ft (255 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
830 ft 255 m
most residents: 730–1,570 ft
Lowest
660 ft 200 m
on the west side
Highest
1,947 ft 593 m
on Sugarloaf Mountain
Average
1,030 ft 315 m
all land inside city limits
Riverside spans about 1,290 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 | 830 ft255 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on Sugarloaf Mountain | 1,947 ft593 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 660 ft200 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Riverside | 830 ft255 m |
| Airport (ONT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.2 mi northwest of the city limits | 944 ft288 m |
| Average of all land | 1,030 ft315 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
12 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Riverside County, California, United States
- Population
- 323,757 2024 est.
- Land area
- 81.1 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,990 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.9533° N, 117.3961° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Santa Ana River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Ontario International (ONT) 944 ft
- ZIP codes 8
- 92501 92503 92504 92505 92506 92507 92508 92521
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lake Mathews1,660 ft
- March ARB1,530 ft
- Woodcrest1,490 ft
- El Sobrante, Riverside County1,230 ft
- Bloomington1,060 ft
- Grand Terrace1,060 ft
- Highgrove1,040 ft
- Riverside830 ft
- Jurupa Valley780 ft
- Home Gardens690 ft
- Norco650 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California593rd highest of 1,622
- Towns in Riverside County49th highest of 75
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cucamonga Peak8,850 ft
- Santiago Peak5,690 ft
- Harrison Mountain4,730 ft
- Estelle Mountain2,767 ft
- Mount Jurupa2,225 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.