Los Lunas, NM Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,950 ft 1,815 m5,670 ft 1,730 m5,540 ft 1,685 m5,260 ft 1,600 m4,980 ft 1,515 m4,840 ft 1,475 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
Los Lunas sits at about 4,920 ft (1,500 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
4,920 ft 1,500 m
most residents: 4,850–5,020 ft
Lowest
4,840 ft 1,475 m
on the south side
Highest
5,953 ft 1,814 m
on El Cerro De Los Lunas
Average
5,100 ft 1,555 m
all land inside village limits
Los Lunas spans about 1,110 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 | 4,920 ft1,500 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on El Cerro De Los Lunas | 5,953 ft1,814 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the south side | 4,840 ft1,475 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Los Lunas | 4,850 ft1,480 m |
| Airport (E98) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.4 mi south of the village limits | 4,836 ft1,474 m |
| Average of all land | 5,100 ft1,555 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 4,920 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
202.9 °F94.9 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
83% of sea level
25.0 inHg (84.6 kPa): each breath holds 17% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
17.5% 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 Valencia County, New Mexico, United States
- Population
- 19,907 2024 est.
- Land area
- 20.5 sq mi
- Density
- 972 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.8062° N, 106.7334° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Basin and Range
- Drains to
- Rio Grande → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Mid Valley Airpark (E98) 4,836 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 87031
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- El Cerro Mission5,060 ft
- Monterey Park5,050 ft
- Las Maravillas4,990 ft
- Los Lunas4,920 ft
- Chical4,890 ft
- Bosque Farms4,870 ft
- Peralta4,860 ft
- Valencia4,850 ft
- El Cerro4,840 ft
- Los Chaves4,830 ft
- Tome4,830 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Mexico383rd highest of 528
- Towns in Valencia County6th highest of 21
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sandia Crest10,670 ft
- Bosque Peak9,620 ft
- Ladron Peak9,186 ft
- South Mountain8,750 ft
- Mesa Gallina7,840 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, 4,840 ft at 34.7843° N, 106.7340° 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.