Waikapu, HI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,570 ft 1,390 m3,470 ft 1,055 m2,920 ft 890 m1,820 ft 555 m720 ft 220 m170 ft 55 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
Waikapu sits at about 400 ft (120 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
400 ft 120 m
most residents: 340–660 ft
Lowest
170 ft 55 m
on the southeast side
Highest
4,570 ft 1,390 m
on Hanaʻula
Average
1,360 ft 415 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Waikapu spans about 4,400 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 | 400 ft120 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on Hanaʻula | 4,570 ft1,390 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 170 ft55 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Waikapu | 450 ft140 m |
| Airport (OGG) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.9 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 55 ft17 m |
| Average of all land | 1,360 ft415 m |
| Nearest peak Puʻukukui, 2.5 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 5,700 ft1,735 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Maui County, Hawaii, United States
- Population
- 3,437 2020 Census
- Land area
- 11.0 sq mi
- Density
- 312 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 20.8576° N, 156.5050° W
- Time zone
- Hawaii-Aleutian UTC−10, no daylight saving
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Kahului (OGG) 55 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 96793
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pukalani1,420 ft
- Haliimaile1,090 ft
- Waikapu400 ft
- Launiupoko370 ft
- Wailuku250 ft
- Olowalu230 ft
- Waihee-Waiehu120 ft
- Paia110 ft
- Kahului74 ft
- Kihei38 ft
- Maalaea31 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Hawaii65th highest of 163
- Towns in Maui County12th highest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Puʻuʻulaʻula10,020 ft
- Puʻukukui5,700 ft
- Hanaʻula4,570 ft
- Kapilau Ridge4,410 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.
- Waikapu 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.