San Fernando, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,250 ft 380 m1,190 ft 365 m1,160 ft 355 m1,110 ft 335 m1,050 ft 320 m1,020 ft 310 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
San Fernando sits at about 1,110 ft (335 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,110 ft 335 m
most residents: 1,050–1,170 ft
Lowest
1,020 ft 310 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,250 ft 380 m
at the foot of the Santa Susana Mountains
Average
1,110 ft 340 m
all land inside city limits
San Fernando spans about 230 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 | 1,110 ft335 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, at the foot of the Santa Susana Mountains | 1,250 ft380 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 1,020 ft310 m |
| Town center USGS map point for San Fernando | 1,070 ft325 m |
| Airport (BUR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.8 mi southeast of the city limits | 778 ft237 m |
| Average of all land | 1,110 ft340 m |
| Nearest peak Oat Mountain, 8.9 mi west of the city limits (NGS survey) | 3,765 ft1,148 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Los Angeles County, California, United States
- Population
- 23,488 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.4 sq mi
- Density
- 9,894 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.2819° N, 118.4390° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Los Angeles River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Hollywood Burbank (BUR) 778 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 91340
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- La Crescenta-Montrose1,610 ft
- Stevenson Ranch1,500 ft
- Bell Canyon1,400 ft
- Santa Clarita1,380 ft
- Santa Susana1,140 ft
- Hidden Hills1,130 ft
- San Fernando1,110 ft
- Burbank620 ft
- Glendale580 ft
- West Hollywood280 ft
- Beverly Hills220 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California531st highest of 1,622
- Towns in Los Angeles County26th highest of 142
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Gleason6,530 ft
- San Gabriel Peak6,150 ft
- Mount Lukens5,076 ft
- Oat Mountain3,765 ft
- Saddle Peak2,807 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.