Wellesley, MA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
330 ft 100 m260 ft 80 m220 ft 70 m150 ft 45 m73 ft 22 m35 ft 11 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Wellesley sits at about 160 ft (50 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
160 ft 50 m
most residents: 120–220 ft
Lowest
35 ft 11 m
on the northeast side
Highest
330 ft 100 m
on the north edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
160 ft 45 m
all land inside town boundaries
Wellesley spans about 295 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 | 160 ft50 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the north edge, below higher ground just outside | 330 ft100 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northeast side | 35 ft11 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Wellesley | 130 ft40 m |
| Airport (BOS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 12 mi east of the town boundaries | 19 ft6 m |
| Average of all land | 160 ft45 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States
- Population
- 31,242 2024 est.
- Land area
- 10.0 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,118 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.2965° N, 71.2926° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- General Edward Lawrence Logan International (BOS) 19 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 02457 02481 02482
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Dover230 ft
- Weston190 ft
- Cochituate180 ft
- Sherborn180 ft
- Framingham180 ft
- Natick170 ft
- Wayland170 ft
- Wellesley160 ft
- Needham150 ft
- Newton120 ft
- Waltham86 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Massachusetts228th highest of 435
- Towns in Norfolk County19th highest of 29
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Monadnock Mountain3,170 ft
- North Pack Monadnock Mountain2,260 ft
- Crotched Mountain2,063 ft
- Peirce Hill340 ft
- Maugus Hill330 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town boundaries, 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 town boundaries (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: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.