Syracuse, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
870 ft 265 m740 ft 225 m680 ft 205 m550 ft 170 m430 ft 130 m360 ft 110 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
Syracuse sits at about 490 ft (150 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
490 ft 150 m
most residents: 400–580 ft
Lowest
360 ft 110 m
on the northwest side
Highest
870 ft 265 m
on the south edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
480 ft 150 m
all land inside city limits
Syracuse spans about 510 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 | 490 ft150 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the south edge, below higher ground just outside | 870 ft265 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 360 ft110 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Syracuse | 400 ft120 m |
| Airport (SYR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.4 mi northeast of the city limits | 421 ft128 m |
| Average of all land | 480 ft150 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Onondaga County, New York, United States
- Population
- 146,097 2024 est.
- Land area
- 25.1 sq mi + 0.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 5,830 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.0481° N, 76.1474° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Airport
- Syracuse Hancock International (SYR) 421 ft
- ZIP codes 12
- 13202 13203 13204 13205 13206 13207 13208 13210 13214 13224 13244 13290
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,220th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Onondaga County25th highest of 47
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Connecticut Hill2,100 ft
- Miller Hill, Onondaga County1,420 ft
- Gillis Hill730 ft
- Clark Hill, Onondaga County530 ft
- Terre Hill490 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. All public domain.