Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, NM Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,000 ft 1,525 m4,990 ft 1,520 m4,990 ft 1,520 m4,980 ft 1,520 m4,970 ft 1,515 m4,970 ft 1,515 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 Ranchos de Albuquerque sits at about 4,990 ft (1,520 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
4,990 ft 1,520 m
most residents: 4,980–4,990 ft
Lowest
4,970 ft 1,515 m
on the southwest side
Highest
5,000 ft 1,525 m
on the north side
Average
4,990 ft 1,520 m
all land inside village limits
Los Ranchos de Albuquerque spans about 30 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 | 4,990 ft1,520 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the north side | 5,000 ft1,525 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the southwest side | 4,970 ft1,515 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Los Ranchos de Albuquerque | 4,990 ft1,520 m |
| Airport (ABQ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.3 mi south of the village limits | 5,355 ft1,632 m |
| Average of all land | 4,990 ft1,520 m |
Altitude Effects
What 4,990 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
202.7 °F94.9 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
83% of sea level
24.9 inHg (84.3 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 Bernalillo County, New Mexico, United States
- Population
- 5,833 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.5 sq mi
- Density
- 1,310 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.1620° N, 106.6428° 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 2
- 87107 87114
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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
- Kirtland AFB5,410 ft
- Rio Rancho5,390 ft
- Paradise Hills5,330 ft
- Albuquerque5,260 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 Mexico380th highest of 528
- Towns in Bernalillo County20th highest of 22
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).
- 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.