Rolling Hills Estates, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,240 ft 380 m970 ft 295 m840 ft 255 m560 ft 170 m290 ft 90 m160 ft 50 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Rolling Hills Estates 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: 350–1,170 ft
Lowest
160 ft 50 m
on the east side
Highest
1,240 ft 380 m
on the southwest side
Average
580 ft 175 m
all land inside city limits
Rolling Hills Estates spans about 1,080 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 city limits, on the southwest side | 1,240 ft380 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 160 ft50 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Rolling Hills Estates | 470 ft140 m |
| Airport (LAX) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 10 mi north of the city limits | 128 ft39 m |
| Average of all land | 580 ft175 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Los Angeles County, California, United States
- Population
- 8,007 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.6 sq mi
- Density
- 2,238 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.7878° N, 118.3581° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Los Angeles International (LAX) 128 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 90274
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Rolling Hills970 ft
- Rancho Palos Verdes760 ft
- Rolling Hills Estates560 ft
- Palos Verdes Estates410 ft
- Redondo Beach110 ft
- Lomita92 ft
- Torrance88 ft
- Hermosa Beach79 ft
- Lawndale62 ft
- West Carson41 ft
- Carson35 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California702nd highest of 1,622
- Towns in Los Angeles County52nd highest of 142
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Lukens5,076 ft
- Saddle Peak2,807 ft
- Mount Orizaba2,100 ft
- Silver Peak, Los Angeles County1,790 ft
- San Pedro Hill1,480 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.