St. Helena, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
760 ft 230 m610 ft 185 m540 ft 165 m400 ft 120 m260 ft 80 m190 ft 55 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
St. Helena sits at about 240 ft (75 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
240 ft 75 m
most residents: 220–300 ft
Lowest
190 ft 55 m
on the east side
Highest
760 ft 230 m
at the foot of the Yountville Hills
Average
290 ft 90 m
all land inside city limits
St. Helena spans about 570 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 | 240 ft75 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, at the foot of the Yountville Hills | 760 ft230 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 190 ft55 m |
| Town center USGS map point for St. Helena | 260 ft80 m |
| Airport (2O3) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.8 mi north of the city limits | 1,875 ft572 m |
| Average of all land | 290 ft90 m |
| Nearest peak Bald Mountain, Sonoma County, 2.6 mi southwest of the city limits | 2,730 ft830 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Napa County, California, United States
- Population
- 5,257 2024 est.
- Land area
- 5.0 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,060 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.5052° N, 122.4703° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Angwin-Parrett Field (2O3) 1,875 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 94574
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Angwin1,730 ft
- Deer Park680 ft
- Kenwood420 ft
- Calistoga360 ft
- Glen Ellen310 ft
- St. Helena240 ft
- Eldridge180 ft
- Rutherford160 ft
- Oakville150 ft
- Fetters Hot Springs-Agua Caliente140 ft
- Yountville110 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,047th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Napa County5th highest of 11
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Saint Helena4,342 ft
- Bald Mountain, Sonoma County2,730 ft
- Mount Veeder2,680 ft
- Atlas Peak2,663 ft
- Cedar Roughs2,370 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.