Torrance, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
460 ft 140 m350 ft 105 m290 ft 90 m180 ft 55 m67 ft 20 m11 ft 3 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Torrance sits at about 88 ft (27 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
88 ft 27 m
most residents: 58–140 ft
Lowest
11 ft 3 m
on the southwest side
Highest
460 ft 140 m
at the foot of the Palos Verdes Hills
Average
97 ft 30 m
all land inside city limits
Torrance spans about 449 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 | 88 ft27 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, at the foot of the Palos Verdes Hills | 460 ft140 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 11 ft3 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Torrance | 86 ft26 m |
| Airport (LAX) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.7 mi northwest of the city limits | 128 ft39 m |
| Average of all land | 97 ft30 m |
| Nearest peak San Pedro Hill, 2.4 mi south of the city limits | 1,480 ft450 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Los Angeles County, California, United States
- Population
- 139,576 2024 est.
- Land area
- 20.5 sq mi + 4.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 6,803 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.8358° N, 118.3406° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Los Angeles International (LAX) 128 ft
- ZIP codes 5
- 90277 90501 90503 90504 90505
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Rolling Hills Estates560 ft
- Palos Verdes Estates410 ft
- Redondo Beach110 ft
- Lomita92 ft
- Torrance88 ft
- Hermosa Beach79 ft
- Lawndale62 ft
- Alondra Park53 ft
- Gardena51 ft
- West Carson41 ft
- Carson35 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,370th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Los Angeles County120th highest of 142
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- San Gabriel Peak6,150 ft
- Mount Lukens5,076 ft
- Saddle Peak2,807 ft
- Silver Peak, Los Angeles County1,790 ft
- San Pedro Hill1,480 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.