Corrales, NM Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,270 ft 1,605 m5,200 ft 1,585 m5,170 ft 1,575 m5,100 ft 1,555 m5,030 ft 1,535 m5,000 ft 1,525 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.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Corrales sits at about 5,030 ft (1,535 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
5,030 ft 1,535 m
most residents: 5,010–5,100 ft
Lowest
5,000 ft 1,525 m
on the southwest side
Highest
5,270 ft 1,605 m
on the northwest side
Average
5,040 ft 1,540 m
all land inside village limits
Corrales spans about 270 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 | 5,030 ft1,535 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the northwest side | 5,270 ft1,605 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the southwest side | 5,000 ft1,525 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Corrales | 5,020 ft1,530 m |
| Airport (ABQ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi south of the village limits | 5,355 ft1,632 m |
| Average of all land | 5,040 ft1,540 m |
| Nearest peak Sandia Crest, 7.9 mi east of the village limits | 10,670 ft3,255 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 5,030 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
202.7 °F94.8 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
83% of sea level
24.9 inHg (84.2 kPa): each breath holds 17% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
17.4% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+10% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Sandoval County, New Mexico, United States
- Population
- 8,530 2024 est.
- Land area
- 10.8 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 791 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.2378° N, 106.6067° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Rio Grande → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Albuquerque International Sunport (ABQ) 5,355 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 87048
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sandia Heights6,140 ft
- Rio Rancho Estates5,790 ft
- Rio Rancho5,390 ft
- Paradise Hills5,330 ft
- Santa Ana Pueblo5,080 ft
- Bernalillo5,050 ft
- Pueblo of Sandia Village5,050 ft
- Corrales5,030 ft
- Edith Enclave5,010 ft
- North Valley5,000 ft
- Los Ranchos de Albuquerque4,990 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Mexico375th highest of 528
- Towns in Sandoval Countylowest of 26
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sandia Crest10,670 ft
- Bosque Peak9,620 ft
- Placer Mountain8,900 ft
- South Mountain8,750 ft
- Mesa Prieta7,529 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the village 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 village limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²) (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts) and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 5,000 ft at 35.2010° N, 106.6443° 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).
- Altitude effects: standard-atmosphere formulas applied to the typical elevation; UV from EPA's rule of thumb (about 2% per 1,000 ft).
- 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.