San Luis, NM Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
6,650 ft 2,025 m6,520 ft 1,990 m6,460 ft 1,970 m6,340 ft 1,930 m6,210 ft 1,895 m6,150 ft 1,875 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
San Luis sits at about 6,380 ft (1,945 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
6,380 ft 1,945 m
few residents
Lowest
6,150 ft 1,875 m
on the southwest side
Highest
6,650 ft 2,025 m
on the north side
Average
6,380 ft 1,945 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
San Luis spans about 500 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 6,380 ft1,945 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 6,650 ft2,025 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 6,150 ft1,875 m |
| Town center USGS map point for San Luis | 6,240 ft1,900 m |
| Average of all land | 6,380 ft1,945 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 6,380 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
200.1 °F93.4 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
79% of sea level
23.6 inHg (80.1 kPa): each breath holds 21% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
16.6% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+13% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Sandoval County, New Mexico, United States
- Population
- 32 2020 Census
- Land area
- 8.3 sq mi
- Density
- 4 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.6825° N, 107.0506° W
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Colorado Plateaus
- Drains to
- Rio Puerco → Rio Grande → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 87053
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- La Cueva, Sandoval County7,800 ft
- Cuba6,900 ft
- Ojo Encino6,770 ft
- Torreon6,500 ft
- San Luis6,380 ft
- Ponderosa6,290 ft
- Jemez Springs6,180 ft
- Cañon5,910 ft
- Jemez Pueblo5,580 ft
- Zia Pueblo5,520 ft
- Village of San Ysidro5,470 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Mexico197th highest of 528
- Towns in Sandoval County7th highest of 26
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Chicoma Mountain11,561 ft
- Redondo Peak11,258 ft
- Cerros del Abrigo10,280 ft
- Capulin Peak, Rio Arriba County9,203 ft
- Mesa Prieta7,529 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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.
- San Luis 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.