Solvang, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
690 ft 210 m610 ft 185 m560 ft 170 m480 ft 145 m390 ft 120 m350 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
Solvang sits at about 490 ft (150 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
490 ft 150 m
most residents: 440–590 ft
Lowest
350 ft 105 m
on the west side
Highest
690 ft 210 m
on the north side
Average
490 ft 150 m
all land inside city limits
Solvang spans about 340 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 | 490 ft150 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 690 ft210 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 350 ft105 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Solvang | 490 ft150 m |
| Average of all land | 490 ft150 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Santa Barbara County, California, United States
- Population
- 5,988 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.4 sq mi
- Density
- 2,469 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.5958° N, 120.1376° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Santa Ynez River → Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 93463
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Los Olivos820 ft
- Ballard680 ft
- Santa Ynez620 ft
- Los Alamos590 ft
- Solvang490 ft
- Buellton370 ft
- Vandenberg Village360 ft
- Mission Hills320 ft
- Lompoc97 ft
- Isla Vista42 ft
- University of California-Santa Barbara30 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California737th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Santa Barbara County8th highest of 28
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- San Rafael Mountain6,570 ft
- Ranger Peak4,580 ft
- Santa Ynez Peak4,290 ft
- Tepusquet Peak3,240 ft
- Oak Mountain2,060 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.