South Pasadena, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
900 ft 275 m810 ft 245 m760 ft 235 m670 ft 205 m580 ft 175 m540 ft 165 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
South Pasadena sits at about 650 ft (200 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
650 ft 200 m
most residents: 570–800 ft
Lowest
540 ft 165 m
on the south side
Highest
900 ft 275 m
on the southwest side
Average
660 ft 200 m
all land inside city limits
South Pasadena spans about 360 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 | 650 ft200 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 900 ft275 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 540 ft165 m |
| Town center USGS map point for South Pasadena | 660 ft200 m |
| Airport (BUR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 12 mi northwest of the city limits | 778 ft237 m |
| Average of all land | 660 ft200 m |
| Nearest peak San Gabriel Peak, 8.6 mi north of the city limits | 6,150 ft1,875 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Los Angeles County, California, United States
- Population
- 25,656 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.4 sq mi
- Density
- 7,526 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.1161° N, 118.1503° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Hollywood Burbank (BUR) 778 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 91030
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Altadena1,210 ft
- Pasadena870 ft
- San Pasqual700 ft
- South Pasadena650 ft
- East Pasadena630 ft
- San Marino570 ft
- East San Gabriel490 ft
- Alhambra460 ft
- San Gabriel390 ft
- Monterey Park390 ft
- Rosemead300 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California650th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Los Angeles County43rd highest of 142
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pacifico Mountain7,137 ft
- Mount Gleason6,530 ft
- San Gabriel Peak6,150 ft
- Monrovia Peak5,390 ft
- Mount Lukens5,076 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.