Sky Valley, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,860 ft 870 m2,280 ft 695 m1,990 ft 605 m1,410 ft 430 m830 ft 250 m530 ft 165 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Sky Valley sits at about 1,160 ft (355 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,160 ft 355 m
most residents: 1,010–1,370 ft
Lowest
530 ft 165 m
on the southwest side
Highest
2,860 ft 870 m
at the foot of the Little San Bernardino Mountains
Average
1,180 ft 360 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Sky Valley spans about 2,330 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 | 1,160 ft355 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Little San Bernardino Mountains | 2,860 ft870 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 530 ft165 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Sky Valley | 1,050 ft320 m |
| Airport (PSP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.2 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 477 ft145 m |
| Average of all land | 1,180 ft360 m |
| Nearest peak Quail Mountain, 7.7 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 5,820 ft1,775 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Riverside County, California, United States
- Population
- 2,411 2020 Census
- Land area
- 24.3 sq mi
- Density
- 99 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.8900° N, 116.3525° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Whitewater River → Salton Sea basin (does not reach the sea)
- Airport
- Palm Springs International (PSP) 477 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 92241
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sky Valley1,160 ft
- Desert Hot Springs1,100 ft
- Indio Hills1,100 ft
- Desert Edge1,000 ft
- Garnet850 ft
- Cathedral City370 ft
- Rancho Mirage280 ft
- Thousand Palms240 ft
- Palm Desert200 ft
- Desert Palms110 ft
- Bermuda Dunes89 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California517th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Riverside County41st highest of 75
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- San Jacinto Peak10,780 ft
- Palm View Peak7,160 ft
- Quail Mountain5,820 ft
- Queen Mountain5,680 ft
- Asbestos Mountain5,250 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).
- 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.
- Sky Valley 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. All public domain.