Albany, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
460 ft 140 m350 ft 105 m290 ft 90 m170 ft 55 m61 ft 18 m4 ft 1 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Albany sits at about 220 ft (65 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
220 ft 65 m
most residents: 110–260 ft
Lowest
4 ft 1 m
on the south side
Highest
460 ft 140 m
on the northwest side
Average
200 ft 60 m
all land inside city limits
Albany spans about 456 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 | 220 ft65 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 460 ft140 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 4 ft1 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Albany | 150 ft45 m |
| Airport (ALB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.6 mi north of the city limits | 285 ft87 m |
| Average of all land | 200 ft60 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Albany County, New York, United States
- Population
- 101,317 2024 est.
- Land area
- 21.4 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 4,734 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.6526° N, 73.7562° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Hudson River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Albany International (ALB) 285 ft
- ZIP codes 12
- 12202 12203 12204 12205 12206 12207 12208 12209 12210 12211 12222 12226
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- North Greenbush390 ft
- Loudonville320 ft
- Siena College310 ft
- Colonie300 ft
- East Greenbush270 ft
- Roessleville270 ft
- Hampton Manor220 ft
- Albany220 ft
- Bethlehem200 ft
- Menands160 ft
- Rensselaer140 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,662nd highest of 2,097
- Towns in Albany County18th highest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Hunter Mountain4,028 ft
- Blackhead3,930 ft
- High Peak3,650 ft
- Huntersfield Mountain3,421 ft
- Berlin Mountain2,800 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city 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).
- 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.