St. Paul, MN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,070 ft 330 m980 ft 300 m930 ft 285 m840 ft 255 m740 ft 225 m690 ft 210 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
St. Paul sits at about 900 ft (275 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
900 ft 275 m
most residents: 810–940 ft
Lowest
690 ft 210 m
on the east side
Highest
1,070 ft 325 m
on the northeast side
Average
860 ft 265 m
all land inside city limits
St. Paul spans about 380 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 | 900 ft275 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 1,070 ft325 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 690 ft210 m |
| Town center USGS map point for St. Paul | 790 ft240 m |
| Airport (MSP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.9 mi southwest of the city limits | 842 ft257 m |
| Average of all land | 860 ft265 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
9.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Ramsey County, Minnesota, United States
- Population
- 307,465 2024 est.
- Land area
- 52.0 sq mi + 4.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 5,915 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.9444° N, 93.0933° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Minneapolis-St Paul International/Wold-Chamberlain (MSP) 842 ft
- ZIP codes 14
- 55101 55102 55103 55104 55105 55106 55107 55108 55114 55116 55117 55119 55130 55155
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- West St. Paul990 ft
- Sunfish Lake970 ft
- Falcon Heights950 ft
- Maplewood940 ft
- Roseville930 ft
- Little Canada910 ft
- St. Paul900 ft
- Mendota Heights890 ft
- South St. Paul830 ft
- Lilydale800 ft
- Mendota780 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Minnesota2,503rd highest of 2,692
- Towns in Ramsey Countylowest of 16
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Buck Hill1,200 ft
- Mount Gilboa1,010 ft
- Bissels Mounds1,010 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).
- 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, 690 ft at 44.9254° N, 93.0415° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.