San Bernardino, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,970 ft 1,210 m3,220 ft 980 m2,840 ft 865 m2,080 ft 635 m1,330 ft 405 m950 ft 290 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
San Bernardino sits at about 1,200 ft (365 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,200 ft 365 m
most residents: 1,070–1,500 ft
Lowest
950 ft 290 m
on the south side
Highest
3,970 ft 1,210 m
at the foot of the Shandin Hills
Average
1,440 ft 440 m
all land inside city limits
San Bernardino spans about 3,020 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 | 1,200 ft365 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, at the foot of the Shandin Hills | 3,970 ft1,210 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 950 ft290 m |
| Town center USGS map point for San Bernardino | 1,050 ft320 m |
| Airport (SBD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 1,159 ft353 m |
| Average of all land | 1,440 ft440 m |
| Nearest peak Cucamonga Peak, 8.2 mi northwest of the city limits | 8,850 ft2,695 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
8.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in San Bernardino County, California, United States
- Population
- 224,775 2024 est.
- Land area
- 62.7 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,586 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.1083° N, 117.2898° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Santa Ana River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- San Bernardino International (SBD) 1,159 ft
- ZIP codes 12
- 92346 92369 92376 92385 92401 92404 92405 92407 92408 92410 92411 92415
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Redlands1,440 ft
- Muscoy1,400 ft
- Rialto1,290 ft
- Fontana1,270 ft
- Highland1,220 ft
- San Bernardino1,200 ft
- Loma Linda1,150 ft
- Bloomington1,060 ft
- Grand Terrace1,060 ft
- Highgrove1,040 ft
- Colton1,020 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California514th highest of 1,622
- Towns in San Bernardino County40th highest of 52
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount San Antonio10,060 ft
- Cucamonga Peak8,850 ft
- Butler Peak8,490 ft
- Harrison Mountain4,730 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.