Rochester, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
710 ft 215 m590 ft 180 m530 ft 165 m420 ft 130 m300 ft 95 m250 ft 75 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
Rochester sits at about 500 ft (150 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
500 ft 150 m
most residents: 430–540 ft
Lowest
250 ft 75 m
on the north side
Highest
710 ft 215 m
on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
480 ft 145 m
all land inside city limits
Rochester spans about 460 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 | 500 ft150 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 710 ft215 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 250 ft75 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Rochester | 500 ft155 m |
| Airport (ROC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 559 ft170 m |
| Average of all land | 480 ft145 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
11 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Monroe County, New York, United States
- Population
- 207,282 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.8 sq mi + 1.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 5,796 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.1548° N, 77.6156° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Airport
- Frederick Douglass/Greater Rochester International (ROC) 559 ft
- ZIP codes 20
- 14604 14605 14606 14607 14608 14609 14610 14611 14612 14613 14614 14615 14617 14619 14620 14621 14623 14624 14627 14642
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Gates560 ft
- Henrietta560 ft
- North Gates540 ft
- Rochester Institute of Technology530 ft
- Pittsford500 ft
- Rochester500 ft
- Brighton490 ft
- Nazareth College450 ft
- St. John Fisher College440 ft
- Irondequoit400 ft
- Greece370 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,189th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Monroe County19th highest of 34
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Frost Hill2,270 ft
- Pinnacle Hill, Monroe County742 ft
- Cobbs Hill640 ft
- Craig Hill, Monroe County460 ft
- Paddy Hill343 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 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.