Palm Beach, FL Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

33 ft 10 m25 ft 8 m21 ft 6 m12 ft 4 m4 ft 1 m0 ft 0 m

Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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.
Town area: Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).

Elevation Data

Palm Beach sits at about 7 ft (2 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

7 ft 2 m

most residents: 3–13 ft

Lowest

0 ft 0 m

at sea level on the Atlantic Ocean

Highest

33 ft 10 m

on the north side

Average

7 ft 2 m

all land inside town limits

Palm Beach spans about 33 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.

3% of Palm Beach's land lies below the average daily high tide (MHHW, NOAA), and 19% lies less than 3 ft above it. Check flood zones on FEMA's map

Figure	Elevation
Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower	7 ft2 m
Highest point Inside town limits, on the north side	33 ft10 m
Lowest point Where the land meets the Atlantic Ocean	0 ft0 m
Town center USGS map point for Palm Beach	6 ft2 m
Airport (DJT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.0 mi southwest of the town limits	20 ft6 m
Average of all land	7 ft2 m

Topographic Map

Location: Town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States
Population: 9,493 2024 est.
Land area: 3.8 sq mi + 4.0 sq mi water
Density: 2,500 per sq mi
Coordinates: 26.7056° N, 80.0364° W
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Coastal Plain
Drains to: Atlantic Ocean
Airport: President Donald J Trump International (DJT) 20 ft
ZIP codes 1: 33480

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Florida813th highest of 958
Towns in Palm Beach County53rd highest of 59

How we measure

Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town 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 town 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, −3 ft at 26.7710° N, 80.0401° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted; this coastal land's lowest point is sea level on the coast.
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 tidal surfaces (MHHW). All public domain.