Cleveland, OH Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,050 ft 320 m930 ft 285 m870 ft 265 m750 ft 230 m630 ft 190 m570 ft 175 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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
Cleveland sits at about 710 ft (215 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
710 ft 215 m
most residents: 630–900 ft
Lowest
570 ft 175 m
near the middle
Highest
1,050 ft 320 m
on the southeast side
Average
720 ft 220 m
all land inside city limits
Cleveland spans about 480 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 | 710 ft215 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 1,050 ft320 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, near the middle | 570 ft175 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Cleveland | 650 ft200 m |
| Airport (CLE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 800 ft244 m |
| Average of all land | 720 ft220 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
7.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States
- Population
- 365,379 2024 est.
- Land area
- 77.7 sq mi + 4.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 4,700 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.4995° N, 81.6954° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Niagara River
- Airport
- Cleveland-Hopkins International (CLE) 800 ft
- ZIP codes 22
- 44101 44102 44103 44104 44105 44106 44108 44109 44110 44111 44112 44113 44114 44115 44119 44120 44121 44127 44128 44135 44142 44144
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Seven Hills1,000 ft
- Parma880 ft
- Brooklyn770 ft
- Brooklyn Heights760 ft
- Linndale760 ft
- Cleveland710 ft
- East Cleveland700 ft
- Lakewood700 ft
- Newburgh Heights700 ft
- Cuyahoga Heights630 ft
- Bratenahl610 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Ohio2,188th highest of 2,572
- Towns in Cuyahoga County50th highest of 59
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Piersons Knob1,200 ft
- Orange Hill1,190 ft
- Gildersleeve Mountain1,160 ft
- Waite Hill780 ft
- Cedar Point770 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. All public domain.