Ukiah, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,730 ft 830 m2,190 ft 665 m1,910 ft 585 m1,370 ft 420 m830 ft 250 m560 ft 170 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
Ukiah sits at about 630 ft (195 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
630 ft 195 m
most residents: 600–680 ft
Lowest
560 ft 170 m
on the south side
Highest
2,730 ft 830 m
on the southwest side
Average
930 ft 285 m
all land inside city limits
Ukiah spans about 2,170 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 | 630 ft195 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 2,730 ft830 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 560 ft170 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Ukiah | 630 ft195 m |
| Airport (UKI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 617 ft188 m |
| Average of all land | 930 ft285 m |
| Nearest peak Cow Mountain, 5.5 mi east of the city limits | 3,940 ft1,200 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Mendocino County, California, United States
- Population
- 16,067 2024 est.
- Land area
- 6.7 sq mi
- Density
- 2,394 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.1502° N, 123.2078° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Russian River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Ukiah Municipal (UKI) 617 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 95482
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- North Lakeport1,360 ft
- Lakeport1,350 ft
- Upper Lake1,340 ft
- Potter Valley950 ft
- Redwood Valley790 ft
- Calpella720 ft
- Ukiah630 ft
- Talmage620 ft
- Hopland500 ft
- Boonville370 ft
- Philo340 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California658th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Mendocino County10th highest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Horse Mountain4,686 ft
- Cow Mountain3,940 ft
- Pine Ridge, Mendocino County3,406 ft
- Sanel Mountain3,360 ft
- Laughlin Range3,350 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.