Duluth, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,480 ft 450 m1,260 ft 385 m1,150 ft 350 m930 ft 285 m710 ft 215 m600 ft 185 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Duluth sits at about 860 ft (260 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
860 ft 260 m
most residents: 650–1,320 ft
Lowest
600 ft 185 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,480 ft 450 m
on the north side
Average
1,030 ft 315 m
all land inside city limits
Duluth spans about 880 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 | 860 ft260 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 1,480 ft450 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 600 ft185 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Duluth | 700 ft215 m |
| Airport (DLH) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 1,428 ft435 m |
| Average of all land | 1,030 ft315 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
7.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in St. Louis County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 87,986 2024 est.
- Land area
- 71.7 sq mi + 8.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,228 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.7833° N, 92.1066° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Superior Upland
- Airport
- Duluth International (DLH) 1,428 ft
- ZIP codes 10
- 55802 55803 55804 55805 55806 55807 55808 55810 55811 55812
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Canosia Township1,430 ft
- Rice Lake1,390 ft
- Hermantown1,380 ft
- Midway Township1,270 ft
- Proctor1,270 ft
- Lakewood Township1,150 ft
- Duluth860 ft
- Parkland, WI750 ft
- Village of Superior, WI670 ft
- Oliver, WI660 ft
- Superior, WI640 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota2,571st highest of 2,692
- Towns in St. Louis Countylowest of 103
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Elys Peak1,250 ft
- Bardon Peak1,250 ft
- Moose Mountain, St. Louis County1,147 ft
- Pork City Hill850 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (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 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.