Sunshine, CO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
8,560 ft 2,610 m8,100 ft 2,470 m7,870 ft 2,400 m7,420 ft 2,260 m6,960 ft 2,120 m6,730 ft 2,050 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Sunshine sits at about 7,380 ft (2,250 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
7,380 ft 2,250 m
few residents
Lowest
6,730 ft 2,050 m
on the southeast side
Highest
8,560 ft 2,610 m
on Bighorn Mountain
Average
7,470 ft 2,275 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Sunshine spans about 1,830 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 7,380 ft2,250 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on Bighorn Mountain | 8,560 ft2,610 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 6,730 ft2,050 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Sunshine | 7,150 ft2,180 m |
| Airport (BDU) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.7 mi east of the CDP boundary | 5,288 ft1,612 m |
| Average of all land | 7,470 ft2,275 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 7,380 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
198.3 °F92.4 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
76% of sea level
22.8 inHg (77.1 kPa): each breath holds 24% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
15.9% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+15% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Boulder County, Colorado, United States
- Population
- 198 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.7 sq mi
- Density
- 114 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.0658° N, 105.3667° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Southern Rocky Mountains
- Drains to
- Boulder Creek → South Platte River → Middle Channel Platte River → Platte River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Boulder Municipal (BDU) 5,288 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 80302
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Gold Hill8,300 ft
- Sugarloaf7,720 ft
- Sunshine7,380 ft
- Mountain Meadows7,340 ft
- Jamestown7,150 ft
- Glendale, Boulder County7,150 ft
- Lazy Acres7,080 ft
- Crisman6,760 ft
- Pine Brook Hill6,740 ft
- Tall Timber6,520 ft
- Seven Hills6,350 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Colorado133rd highest of 484
- Towns in Boulder County11th highest of 32
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Longs Peak14,250 ft
- North Arapaho Peak13,490 ft
- Copeland Mountain13,170 ft
- Twin Sisters Mountain11,400 ft
- Starr Peak10,510 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census CDP boundary (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).
- 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.
- Sunshine is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.