Sonoma, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
570 ft 175 m440 ft 135 m380 ft 115 m250 ft 75 m120 ft 35 m51 ft 16 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
Sonoma sits at about 77 ft (23 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
77 ft 23 m
most residents: 61–100 ft
Lowest
51 ft 16 m
on the southwest side
Highest
570 ft 175 m
on the north edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
99 ft 30 m
all land inside city limits
Sonoma spans about 519 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 | 77 ft23 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north edge, below higher ground just outside | 570 ft175 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 51 ft16 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Sonoma | 83 ft25 m |
| Airport (O69) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.3 mi west of the city limits | 90 ft27 m |
| Average of all land | 99 ft30 m |
| Nearest peak Mount Veeder, 4.9 mi north of the city limits | 2,680 ft815 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Sonoma County, California, United States
- Population
- 10,606 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.7 sq mi
- Density
- 3,865 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.2919° N, 122.4580° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Petaluma Municipal (O69) 90 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 95476
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Kenwood420 ft
- Glen Ellen310 ft
- Eldridge180 ft
- Oakville150 ft
- Fetters Hot Springs-Agua Caliente140 ft
- Boyes Hot Springs120 ft
- Yountville110 ft
- Temelec100 ft
- El Verano100 ft
- Sonoma77 ft
- Napa52 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,404th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Sonoma County35th highest of 38
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Vaca2,770 ft
- Bald Mountain, Sonoma County2,730 ft
- Mount Veeder2,680 ft
- Atlas Peak2,663 ft
- Big Rock Ridge1,880 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.