Kilauea, HI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
570 ft 175 m430 ft 130 m350 ft 110 m210 ft 65 m71 ft 22 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
Kilauea sits at about 310 ft (95 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
310 ft 95 m
most residents: 260–320 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on the Pacific Ocean
Highest
568 ft 173 m
on Crater Hill
Average
260 ft 80 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Kilauea spans about 570 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 | 310 ft95 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on Crater Hill | 568 ft173 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets the Pacific Ocean | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Kilauea | 320 ft95 m |
| Average of all land | 260 ft80 m |
| Nearest peak Wēkiu, 5.2 mi south of the CDP boundary | 3,220 ft980 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Kauai County, Hawaii, United States
- Population
- 3,014 2020 Census
- Land area
- 5.0 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 606 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 22.2094° N, 159.4068° W
- Time zone
- Hawaii-Aleutian UTC−10, no daylight saving
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 96754
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Wailua Homesteads330 ft
- Kilauea310 ft
- Princeville200 ft
- Kapaa180 ft
- Hanamaulu150 ft
- Kalihiwai150 ft
- Anahola110 ft
- Wailua54 ft
- Wainiha50 ft
- Haena19 ft
- Hanalei14 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Hawaii73rd highest of 163
- Towns in Kauai County5th highest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Waiʻaleʻale5,130 ft
- Nāmolokama Mountain4,410 ft
- Puʻukamaha4,330 ft
- Wēkiu3,220 ft
- Pānīʻau1,280 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).
- 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, −2 ft at 22.2246° N, 159.4099° 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: 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.
- Kilauea 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.