Schenectady, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
450 ft 135 m390 ft 120 m360 ft 110 m300 ft 90 m240 ft 75 m210 ft 65 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
Schenectady sits at about 340 ft (105 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
340 ft 105 m
most residents: 260–380 ft
Lowest
210 ft 65 m
near the middle
Highest
450 ft 135 m
on the southeast side
Average
330 ft 100 m
all land inside city limits
Schenectady spans about 240 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 | 340 ft105 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 450 ft135 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, near the middle | 210 ft65 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Schenectady | 240 ft75 m |
| Airport (ALB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.0 mi southeast of the city limits | 285 ft87 m |
| Average of all land | 330 ft100 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Schenectady County, New York, United States
- Population
- 69,495 2024 est.
- Land area
- 10.8 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 6,430 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.8142° N, 73.9396° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Mohawk River → Hudson River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Albany International (ALB) 285 ft
- ZIP codes 7
- 12303 12304 12305 12306 12307 12308 12309
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Princetown620 ft
- Charlton470 ft
- Niskayuna390 ft
- East Glenville340 ft
- Schenectady340 ft
- Rotterdam340 ft
- Clifton Gardens310 ft
- Colonie300 ft
- Clifton Knolls-Mill Creek300 ft
- Guilderland280 ft
- Scotia270 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,477th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Schenectady County8th highest of 11
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Blackhead3,930 ft
- Huntersfield Mountain3,421 ft
- Three Ponds Mountain3,010 ft
- Berlin Mountain2,800 ft
- Tenant Mountain2,767 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 200 ft at 42.8190° N, 73.9474° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.