Paradise Hills, NM Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,400 ft 1,645 m5,350 ft 1,630 m5,330 ft 1,625 m5,270 ft 1,610 m5,220 ft 1,590 m5,200 ft 1,585 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Paradise Hills sits at about 5,330 ft (1,625 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
5,330 ft 1,625 m
most residents: 5,250–5,390 ft
Lowest
5,200 ft 1,585 m
on the southeast side
Highest
5,400 ft 1,645 m
on the west side
Average
5,320 ft 1,620 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Paradise Hills spans about 200 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 | 5,330 ft1,625 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 5,400 ft1,645 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 5,200 ft1,585 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Paradise Hills | 5,320 ft1,625 m |
| Airport (ABQ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi southeast of the CDP boundary | 5,355 ft1,632 m |
| Average of all land | 5,320 ft1,620 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 5,330 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
202.1 °F94.5 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
82% of sea level
24.6 inHg (83.3 kPa): each breath holds 18% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
17.2% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+11% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, United States
- Population
- 4,329 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.0 sq mi
- Density
- 4,232 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.2006° N, 106.7011° 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
- 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
- Rio Rancho5,390 ft
- Paradise Hills5,330 ft
- Albuquerque5,260 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 Mexico348th highest of 528
- Towns in Bernalillo County16th 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 CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Paradise Hills is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.