Rosemead, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
390 ft 120 m350 ft 105 m330 ft 100 m290 ft 85 m250 ft 75 m230 ft 70 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
Rosemead sits at about 300 ft (90 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
300 ft 90 m
most residents: 260–350 ft
Lowest
230 ft 70 m
on the south side
Highest
390 ft 120 m
on the northwest side
Average
300 ft 90 m
all land inside city limits
Rosemead spans about 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 | 300 ft90 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 390 ft120 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 230 ft70 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Rosemead | 320 ft95 m |
| Airport (EMT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.2 mi east of the city limits | 296 ft90 m |
| Average of all land | 300 ft90 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Los Angeles County, California, United States
- Population
- 49,582 2024 est.
- Land area
- 5.2 sq mi
- Density
- 9,605 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.0806° N, 118.0728° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- San Gabriel Valley (EMT) 296 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 91770
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- San Marino570 ft
- East San Gabriel490 ft
- Alhambra460 ft
- San Gabriel390 ft
- Monterey Park390 ft
- Temple City360 ft
- South San Gabriel340 ft
- North El Monte330 ft
- Rosemead300 ft
- El Monte290 ft
- South El Monte240 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California970th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Los Angeles County80th highest of 142
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Waterman Mountain8,030 ft
- Pacifico Mountain7,137 ft
- San Gabriel Peak6,150 ft
- Monrovia Peak5,390 ft
- Mount Lukens5,076 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.