Colorado Springs, CO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
9,220 ft 2,810 m8,340 ft 2,545 m7,910 ft 2,410 m7,030 ft 2,145 m6,150 ft 1,875 m5,720 ft 1,740 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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
Colorado Springs sits at about 6,400 ft (1,950 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
6,400 ft 1,950 m
most residents: 5,990–6,870 ft
Lowest
5,720 ft 1,740 m
on the southeast side
Highest
9,219 ft 2,810 m
on The Horns
Average
6,410 ft 1,955 m
all land inside city limits
Colorado Springs spans about 3,500 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 | 6,400 ft1,950 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on The Horns | 9,219 ft2,810 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 5,720 ft1,740 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Colorado Springs | 6,010 ft1,830 m |
| Airport (COS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 6,187 ft1,886 m |
| Average of all land | 6,410 ft1,955 m |
| Nearest peak Pikes Peak, 7.1 mi west of the city limits (NGS survey) | 14,115 ft4,302 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
15 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 6,400 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
200.1 °F93.4 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
79% of sea level
23.6 inHg (80.0 kPa): each breath holds 21% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
16.5% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+13% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in El Paso County, Colorado, United States
- Population
- 493,554 2024 est.
- Land area
- 202.2 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,441 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.8339° N, 104.8214° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Southern Rocky Mountains
- Drains to
- Fountain Creek → Arkansas River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- City of Colorado Springs Municipal (COS) 6,187 ft
- ZIP codes 26
- 80831 80903 80904 80905 80906 80907 80908 80909 80910 80914 80915 80916 80917 80918 80919 80920 80921 80922 80923 80924 80925 80926 80927 80929 80938 80951
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Green Mountain Falls7,810 ft
- Cascade-Chipita Park7,690 ft
- Air Force Academy6,840 ft
- Cimarron Hills6,430 ft
- Manitou Springs6,410 ft
- Colorado Springs6,400 ft
- Rock Creek Park6,290 ft
- Fort Carson5,880 ft
- Stratmoor5,840 ft
- Security-Widefield5,790 ft
- Fountain5,640 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Colorado196th highest of 484
- Towns in El Paso County13th highest of 20
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pikes Peak14,115 ft
- Saddle Mountain, Park County10,790 ft
- Green Mountain, Jefferson County10,427 ft
- Thunder Butte9,837 ft
- Devils Head9,700 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 5,710 ft at 38.7379° N, 104.6660° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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).
- Altitude effects: standard-atmosphere formulas applied to the typical elevation; UV from EPA's rule of thumb (about 2% per 1,000 ft).
- 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.