Cincinnati, OH Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
960 ft 295 m840 ft 255 m770 ft 235 m650 ft 195 m520 ft 160 m460 ft 140 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
Cincinnati sits at about 730 ft (225 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
730 ft 225 m
most residents: 540–870 ft
Lowest
460 ft 140 m
on the west side
Highest
960 ft 295 m
on the northwest side
Average
670 ft 205 m
all land inside city limits
Cincinnati spans about 500 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 | 730 ft225 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 960 ft295 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 460 ft140 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Cincinnati | 550 ft170 m |
| Airport (CVG) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.7 mi southwest of the city limits | 896 ft273 m |
| Average of all land | 670 ft205 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
17 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States
- Population
- 314,915 2024 est.
- Land area
- 77.9 sq mi + 1.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 4,042 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.1035° N, 84.5153° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International (CVG) 896 ft
- ZIP codes 30
- 45202 45203 45204 45205 45206 45207 45208 45209 45211 45212 45213 45214 45215 45216 45217 45219 45220 45223 45224 45225 45226 45227 45229 45230 45232 45233 45237 45238 45239 45267
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Fort Mitchell, KY830 ft
- Park Hills, KY800 ft
- Cincinnati730 ft
- Southgate, KY700 ft
- Woodlawn, KY600 ft
- Bellevue, KY550 ft
- Covington, KY530 ft
- Newport, KY520 ft
- Ludlow, KY520 ft
- Dayton, KY520 ft
- Bromley, KY520 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Ohio2,075th highest of 2,572
- Towns in Hamilton County58th highest of 98
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bald Knob, Hamilton County891 ft
- Brighton Hill890 ft
- Goat Hill880 ft
- Mount Adams820 ft
- Fort Hill, Hamilton County740 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.