Minneapolis, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
980 ft 300 m910 ft 280 m880 ft 270 m810 ft 245 m740 ft 225 m700 ft 215 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Minneapolis sits at about 850 ft (260 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
850 ft 260 m
most residents: 830–900 ft
Lowest
700 ft 215 m
on the southeast side
Highest
980 ft 300 m
on the north side
Average
860 ft 260 m
all land inside city limits
Minneapolis spans about 280 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 | 850 ft260 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 980 ft300 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 700 ft215 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Minneapolis | 830 ft255 m |
| Airport (MSP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.8 mi south of the city limits | 842 ft257 m |
| Average of all land | 860 ft260 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 428,579 2024 est.
- Land area
- 54.0 sq mi + 3.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 7,937 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.9800° N, 93.2638° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Minneapolis-st Paul Intl/wold-chamberlain (MSP) 842 ft
- ZIP codes 22
- 55401 55402 55403 55404 55405 55406 55407 55408 55409 55410 55411 55412 55413 55414 55415 55416 55417 55418 55419 55430 55454 55455
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lauderdale960 ft
- Falcon Heights950 ft
- St. Anthony950 ft
- Columbia Heights930 ft
- Roseville930 ft
- Hilltop930 ft
- St. Louis Park910 ft
- Golden Valley890 ft
- Robbinsdale880 ft
- Crystal880 ft
- Minneapolis850 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota2,575th highest of 2,692
- Towns in Hennepin County39th highest of 42
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Buck Hill1,200 ft
- Mount Gilboa1,010 ft
- Sunset Hill960 ft
- Pilot Knob950 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, 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. All public domain.