Saratoga, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,470 ft 450 m1,170 ft 355 m1,010 ft 310 m710 ft 215 m400 ft 120 m250 ft 75 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
Saratoga sits at about 360 ft (110 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
360 ft 110 m
most residents: 280–600 ft
Lowest
250 ft 75 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,470 ft 450 m
at the foot of the Santa Cruz Mountains
Average
490 ft 150 m
all land inside city limits
Saratoga spans about 1,220 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 | 360 ft110 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, at the foot of the Santa Cruz Mountains | 1,470 ft450 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 250 ft75 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Saratoga | 420 ft130 m |
| Airport (SJC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.1 mi northeast of the city limits | 62 ft19 m |
| Average of all land | 490 ft150 m |
| Nearest peak Mount Bielawski, 2.7 mi southwest of the city limits (NGS survey) | 3,234 ft986 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Santa Clara County, California, United States
- Population
- 30,486 2024 est.
- Land area
- 12.8 sq mi
- Density
- 2,385 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.2638° N, 122.0230° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Mineta San Jose International (SJC) 62 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 95070
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lexington Hills1,400 ft
- Monte Sereno420 ft
- Saratoga360 ft
- Los Gatos360 ft
- Cupertino260 ft
- Cambrian Park240 ft
- Campbell210 ft
- Fruitdale160 ft
- Burbank, Santa Clara County120 ft
- Sunnyvale100 ft
- Santa Clara81 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California884th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Santa Clara County5th highest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Copernicus Peak4,360 ft
- Black Mountain, Santa Clara County3,955 ft
- Loma Prieta3,792 ft
- Mount Bielawski3,234 ft
- Mount Allison2,664 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.