San Leandro, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
510 ft 155 m380 ft 115 m320 ft 95 m190 ft 60 m64 ft 19 m0 ft 0 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 Leandro sits at about 38 ft (11 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
38 ft 11 m
most residents: 14–69 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on San Francisco Bay
Highest
510 ft 155 m
on the east side
Average
43 ft 13 m
all land inside city limits
San Leandro spans about 510 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 | 38 ft11 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 510 ft155 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets San Francisco Bay | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for San Leandro | 56 ft17 m |
| Airport (SFO) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi southwest of the city limits | 13 ft4 m |
| Average of all land | 43 ft13 m |
| Nearest peak Rocky Ridge, 6.7 mi northeast of the city limits | 2,020 ft615 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Alameda County, California, United States
- Population
- 86,571 2024 est.
- Land area
- 13.3 sq mi + 2.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 6,498 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.7249° N, 122.1561° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- San Francisco International (SFO) 13 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 94577 94578 94579
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Moraga680 ft
- Fairview370 ft
- Piedmont280 ft
- Castro Valley270 ft
- Oakland70 ft
- Cherryland67 ft
- Hayward52 ft
- Ashland43 ft
- San Leandro38 ft
- San Lorenzo31 ft
- Alameda15 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,519th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Alameda County15th highest of 20
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Diablo3,864 ft
- Sunol Peak2,191 ft
- Rocky Ridge2,020 ft
- Scarpet Peak1,930 ft
- Vollmer Peak1,916 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.