Lihue, HI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
320 ft 100 m240 ft 75 m200 ft 60 m120 ft 35 m40 ft 12 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
Lihue sits at about 200 ft (60 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
200 ft 60 m
most residents: 140–240 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on the Pacific Ocean
Highest
320 ft 100 m
at the foot of the Makaleha Mountains
Average
140 ft 45 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Lihue spans about 320 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 | 200 ft60 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Makaleha Mountains | 320 ft100 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets the Pacific Ocean | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lihue | 210 ft65 m |
| Airport (LIH) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 152 ft46 m |
| Average of all land | 140 ft45 m |
| Nearest peak Wēkiu, 8.8 mi north 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
- 8,004 2020 Census
- Land area
- 7.5 sq mi + 0.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,073 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 21.9741° N, 159.3649° W
- Time zone
- Hawaii-Aleutian UTC−10, no daylight saving
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Lihue (LIH) 152 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 96766
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Hawaii90th highest of 163
- Towns in Kauai County9th 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, −1 ft at 21.9629° N, 159.3304° 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.
- Lihue 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.