Santee, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,210 ft 370 m980 ft 300 m870 ft 265 m640 ft 195 m410 ft 125 m300 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
Santee 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: 340–550 ft
Lowest
300 ft 90 m
on the west side
Highest
1,210 ft 370 m
on the north side
Average
530 ft 165 m
all land inside city limits
Santee spans about 910 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 | 1,210 ft370 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 300 ft90 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Santee | 350 ft105 m |
| Airport (SAN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi southwest of the city limits | 17 ft5 m |
| Average of all land | 530 ft165 m |
| Nearest peak Woodson Mountain, 7.3 mi north of the city limits (NGS survey) | 2,901 ft884 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in San Diego County, California, United States
- Population
- 59,104 2024 est.
- Land area
- 16.5 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,575 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 32.8384° N, 116.9739° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Lower Californian
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- San Diego International (SAN) 17 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 92040 92071
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Crest1,540 ft
- Granite Hills650 ft
- Casa de Oro-Mount Helix640 ft
- Winter Gardens620 ft
- Eucalyptus Hills600 ft
- Lakeside590 ft
- La Mesa550 ft
- Spring Valley490 ft
- El Cajon480 ft
- Bostonia470 ft
- Santee390 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California826th highest of 1,622
- Towns in San Diego County41st highest of 57
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Viejas Mountain4,189 ft
- Lyons Peak3,741 ft
- El Cajon Mountain3,677 ft
- Woodson Mountain2,901 ft
- San Miguel Mountain2,569 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.