San Ramon, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,110 ft 340 m920 ft 280 m830 ft 250 m630 ft 195 m440 ft 135 m340 ft 105 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 Ramon sits at about 550 ft (170 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
550 ft 170 m
most residents: 400–660 ft
Lowest
340 ft 105 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,110 ft 340 m
on the east side
Average
570 ft 175 m
all land inside city limits
San Ramon spans about 770 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 | 550 ft170 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 1,110 ft340 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 340 ft105 m |
| Town center USGS map point for San Ramon | 490 ft150 m |
| Airport (OAK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 12 mi west of the city limits | 9 ft3 m |
| Average of all land | 570 ft175 m |
| Nearest peak Mount Diablo, 6.1 mi northeast of the city limits (NGS survey) | 3,864 ft1,178 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Contra Costa County, California, United States
- Population
- 85,924 2024 est.
- Land area
- 20.1 sq mi
- Density
- 4,284 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.7799° N, 121.9780° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Oakland San Francisco Bay (OAK) 9 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 94582 94583
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Norris Canyon1,270 ft
- Blackhawk900 ft
- Camino Tassajara740 ft
- Diablo600 ft
- San Ramon550 ft
- Danville490 ft
- Alamo430 ft
- Dublin380 ft
- Fairview370 ft
- Castle Hill300 ft
- San Miguel250 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California703rd highest of 1,622
- Towns in Contra Costa County8th highest of 53
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Diablo3,864 ft
- Mount Allison2,664 ft
- Sunol Peak2,191 ft
- Rocky Ridge2,020 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.