San Gabriel, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
520 ft 160 m470 ft 140 m440 ft 135 m380 ft 115 m320 ft 100 m290 ft 90 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 Gabriel sits at about 390 ft (120 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
390 ft 120 m
most residents: 330–470 ft
Lowest
290 ft 90 m
on the southeast side
Highest
520 ft 160 m
on the north side
Average
410 ft 125 m
all land inside city limits
San Gabriel 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 | 390 ft120 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 520 ft160 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 290 ft90 m |
| Town center USGS map point for San Gabriel | 410 ft125 m |
| Airport (EMT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.6 mi east of the city limits | 296 ft90 m |
| Average of all land | 410 ft125 m |
| Nearest peak San Gabriel Peak, 8.8 mi north of the city limits | 6,150 ft1,875 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Los Angeles County, California, United States
- Population
- 37,926 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.1 sq mi
- Density
- 9,152 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.0961° N, 118.1058° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- San Gabriel Valley (EMT) 296 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 91775 91776
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- San Pasqual700 ft
- South Pasadena650 ft
- East Pasadena630 ft
- San Marino570 ft
- East San Gabriel490 ft
- Alhambra460 ft
- San Gabriel390 ft
- Monterey Park390 ft
- Temple City360 ft
- South San Gabriel340 ft
- Rosemead300 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California825th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Los Angeles County67th highest of 142
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Waterman Mountain8,030 ft
- Mount Gleason6,530 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.