Lawai, HI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,230 ft 375 m930 ft 285 m780 ft 240 m490 ft 150 m190 ft 60 m44 ft 14 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
Lawai sits at about 560 ft (170 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
560 ft 170 m
most residents: 380–690 ft
Lowest
44 ft 14 m
on the south side
Highest
1,230 ft 375 m
at the foot of the Makaleha Mountains
Average
550 ft 170 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Lawai spans about 1,186 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 | 560 ft170 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Makaleha Mountains | 1,230 ft375 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 44 ft14 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lawai | 540 ft165 m |
| Airport (LIH) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.6 mi east of the CDP boundary | 152 ft46 m |
| Average of all land | 550 ft170 m |
| Nearest peak Waiʻaleʻale, 8.6 mi north of the CDP boundary | 5,130 ft1,565 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Kauai County, Hawaii, United States
- Population
- 2,578 2020 Census
- Land area
- 4.1 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 635 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 21.9216° N, 159.5038° W
- Time zone
- Hawaii-Aleutian UTC−10, no daylight saving
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Lihue (LIH) 152 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 96741 96756 96765
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Hawaii55th highest of 163
- Towns in Kauai County2nd 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).
- 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.
- Lawai 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.