Kaunakakai, HI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
960 ft 295 m720 ft 220 m600 ft 185 m360 ft 110 m120 ft 35 m0 ft 0 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
Kaunakakai sits at about 85 ft (26 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
85 ft 26 m
most residents: 15–250 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on the Pacific Ocean
Highest
960 ft 295 m
on the east edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
260 ft 80 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Kaunakakai spans about 960 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 | 85 ft26 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east edge, below higher ground just outside | 960 ft295 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets the Pacific Ocean | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Kaunakakai | 12 ft4 m |
| Airport (MKK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.4 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 454 ft138 m |
| Average of all land | 260 ft80 m |
| Nearest peak Kamakou, 4.4 mi east of the CDP boundary | 4,970 ft1,515 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Maui County, Hawaii, United States
- Population
- 3,419 2020 Census
- Land area
- 12.8 sq mi + 3.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 266 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 21.0896° N, 157.0174° W
- Time zone
- Hawaii-Aleutian UTC−10, no daylight saving
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Molokai (MKK) 454 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 96748
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lanai City1,590 ft
- Maunaloa1,060 ft
- Kualapuu740 ft
- Ualapue590 ft
- Manele170 ft
- Kaanapali170 ft
- Mahinahina150 ft
- Kapalua130 ft
- Kaunakakai85 ft
- Lahaina46 ft
- Napili-Honokowai33 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Hawaii115th highest of 163
- Towns in Maui County25th highest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Puʻukukui5,700 ft
- Kamakou4,970 ft
- Olokuʻi4,580 ft
- Puʻuowailau3,610 ft
- Lānaʻihale3,380 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.
- Kaunakakai 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. All public domain.