Binghamton, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,500 ft 460 m1,330 ft 405 m1,250 ft 380 m1,080 ft 330 m910 ft 275 m820 ft 250 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Binghamton sits at about 870 ft (265 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
870 ft 265 m
most residents: 850–930 ft
Lowest
820 ft 250 m
on the west side
Highest
1,500 ft 460 m
on the southeast side
Average
960 ft 295 m
all land inside city limits
Binghamton spans about 680 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 | 870 ft265 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 1,500 ft460 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 820 ft250 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Binghamton | 860 ft265 m |
| Airport (BGM) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.9 mi northwest of the city limits | 1,636 ft499 m |
| Average of all land | 960 ft295 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Broome County, New York, United States
- Population
- 46,773 2024 est.
- Land area
- 10.5 sq mi + 0.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 4,463 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.0987° N, 75.9180° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Greater Binghamton/Edwin A Link Field (BGM) 1,636 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 13901 13903 13904 13905
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Town of Binghamton1,340 ft
- Binghamton University1,020 ft
- Chenango960 ft
- Endwell940 ft
- Chenango Bridge900 ft
- Union890 ft
- Dickinson880 ft
- Binghamton870 ft
- Johnson City870 ft
- Port Dickinson860 ft
- Endicott850 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York741st highest of 2,097
- Towns in Broome County25th highest of 28
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Connecticut Hill2,100 ft
- Mount Prospect, Broome County1,430 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.