Honokaa, HI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,630 ft 495 m1,320 ft 400 m1,170 ft 355 m860 ft 260 m550 ft 170 m400 ft 120 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
Honokaa sits at about 1,190 ft (360 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,190 ft 360 m
most residents: 1,010–1,360 ft
Lowest
400 ft 120 m
on the north side
Highest
1,630 ft 495 m
on the southwest edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,080 ft 330 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Honokaa spans about 1,230 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 | 1,190 ft360 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,630 ft495 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 400 ft120 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Honokaa | 1,090 ft330 m |
| Airport (MUE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 13 mi west of the CDP boundary | 2,671 ft814 m |
| Average of all land | 1,080 ft330 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Hawaii County, Hawaii, United States
- Population
- 2,699 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.1 sq mi
- Density
- 1,282 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 20.0793° N, 155.4669° W
- Time zone
- Hawaii-Aleutian UTC−10, no daylight saving
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Waimea-Kohala (MUE) 2,671 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 96727
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Waimea2,860 ft
- Honokaa1,190 ft
- Waikoloa Village830 ft
- Hawi670 ft
- Kukuihaele630 ft
- Paauilo630 ft
- Halaula520 ft
- Laupahoehoe460 ft
- Kapaau450 ft
- Honomu320 ft
- Puako29 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Hawaii23rd highest of 163
- Towns in Hawaii County17th highest of 54
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mauna Kea13,803 ft
- Mauna Loa13,670 ft
- Hualālai8,260 ft
- Kaumu o Kaleihoohie5,490 ft
- Kawela Loa2,430 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 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).
- 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: local mean sea level (Hawaii has no national vertical datum). NGS plans to replace local mean sea level with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Honokaa is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS and Watershed Boundary Dataset; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.