Saranap, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
560 ft 170 m450 ft 140 m400 ft 125 m300 ft 90 m200 ft 60 m150 ft 45 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Saranap sits at about 200 ft (60 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
200 ft 60 m
most residents: 180–260 ft
Lowest
150 ft 45 m
on the northeast side
Highest
560 ft 170 m
on the west side
Average
230 ft 70 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Saranap spans about 410 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 | 200 ft60 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 560 ft170 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 150 ft45 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Saranap | 180 ft55 m |
| Airport (OAK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 13 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 9 ft3 m |
| Average of all land | 230 ft70 m |
| Nearest peak Rocky Ridge, 4.6 mi south of the CDP boundary | 2,020 ft615 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Contra Costa County, California, United States
- Population
- 5,830 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.1 sq mi
- Density
- 5,137 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.8849° N, 122.0761° 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 1
- 94595
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lafayette450 ft
- Alamo430 ft
- Acalanes Ridge410 ft
- Castle Hill300 ft
- Reliez Valley290 ft
- North Gate270 ft
- San Miguel250 ft
- Shell Ridge230 ft
- Saranap200 ft
- Walnut Creek170 ft
- Contra Costa Centre88 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,113th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Contra Costa County22nd highest of 53
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Diablo3,864 ft
- Mount Tamalpais2,576 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 CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 140 ft at 37.8915° N, 122.0646° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.
- Saranap is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.