New Mexico Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
13,170 ft 4,015 m10,580 ft 3,225 m9,290 ft 2,830 m6,700 ft 2,045 m4,110 ft 1,255 m2,820 ft 860 m
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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.
- State area
- Fades everything outside the official state boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
New Mexico averages about 5,780 ft (1,760 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 2,820 ft on the southeast side to 13,167 ft on Wheeler Peak.
Average elevation
5,780 ft 1,760 m
all land in New Mexico
Highest
13,167 ft 4,013 m
on Wheeler Peak
Lowest
2,820 ft 860 m
on the southeast side
New Mexico spans about 10,350 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 5,780 ft1,760 m |
| Highest point In New Mexico, on Wheeler Peak (NGS survey height) | 13,167 ft4,013 m |
| Lowest point In New Mexico, on the southeast side | 2,820 ft860 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
360 mi south to north through Albuquerque.
Topographic Map
- Location
- State in the Mountain division of the West region, United States
- Population
- 2,130,256 2024 est.
- Land area
- 121,313.1 sq mi + 280.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 18 per sq mi
- Counties
- 33
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform regions
- Basin and Range 37%, Great Plains 36%, Colorado Plateaus 21%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America 42%, Gulf of California 25%, Closed basin (does not reach the sea) 19%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring states sharing a border, by average
- New Mexico5,780 ft
- Arizona
- Colorado
- Oklahoma
- Texas
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Wheeler Peak13,167 ft
- Middle Truchas Peak13,060 ft
- Venado Peak12,730 ft
- Gold Hill12,690 ft
- Santa Fe Baldy12,620 ft
All 33 counties by average elevation
- Taos County8,500 ft
- Rio Arriba County7,670 ft
- Los Alamos County7,520 ft
- Catron County7,380 ft
- Colfax County7,250 ft
- Mora County7,190 ft
- Cibola County7,090 ft
- McKinley County6,950 ft
- Santa Fe County6,880 ft
- Sandoval County6,710 ft
- Torrance County6,460 ft
- San Juan County6,050 ft
- Socorro County6,000 ft
- San Miguel County5,950 ft
- Bernalillo County5,940 ft
- Lincoln County5,860 ft
- Grant County5,790 ft
- Sierra County5,480 ft
- Union County5,440 ft
- Valencia County5,380 ft
- Otero County5,270 ft
- Guadalupe County5,200 ft
- Harding County5,040 ft
- Hidalgo County4,720 ft
- Luna County4,510 ft
- Doña Ana County4,450 ft
- De Baca County4,440 ft
- Curry County4,440 ft
- Quay County4,330 ft
- Roosevelt County4,250 ft
- Chaves County4,250 ft
- Lea County3,790 ft
- Eddy County3,750 ft
All 24 tribal lands by average elevation
- Taos Pueblo8,640 ft
- Picuris Pueblo7,840 ft
- Mescalero Reservation7,400 ft
- Jicarilla Apache Nation Reservation7,360 ft
- Santa Clara Pueblo7,230 ft
- Acoma Pueblo7,090 ft
- Zuni Reservation6,760 ft
- Jemez Pueblo6,680 ft
- Nambe Pueblo6,650 ft
- Tesuque Pueblo6,570 ft
- Laguna Pueblo6,010 ft
- San Ildefonso Pueblo5,990 ft
- Zia Pueblo5,980 ft
- Pueblo of Pojoaque5,960 ft
- Ohkay Owingeh5,750 ft
- Pueblo de Cochiti5,660 ft
- Santo Domingo Pueblo5,590 ft
- Santa Ana Pueblo5,580 ft
- Isleta Pueblo5,520 ft
- San Felipe Pueblo5,450 ft
- Sandia Pueblo5,440 ft
- San Felipe Pueblo/Santo Domingo Pueblo joint-use area5,320 ft
- San Felipe Pueblo/Santa Ana Pueblo joint-use area5,180 ft
- Fort Sill Apache Indian Reservation4,140 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census state boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 8 arc-second (≈810 ft, 247 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring states and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the state with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Counties: each one's average on its own grid (1 arc-second, coarser for the largest), the same figure its own page shows.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.