Portland, OR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,190 ft 360 m890 ft 270 m740 ft 225 m450 ft 135 m150 ft 45 m6 ft 2 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
Portland sits at about 210 ft (65 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
210 ft 65 m
most residents: 80–390 ft
Lowest
6 ft 2 m
on the north side
Highest
1,190 ft 360 m
on the northwest side
Average
260 ft 80 m
all land inside city limits
Portland spans about 1,184 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 | 210 ft65 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 1,190 ft360 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 6 ft2 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Portland | 33 ft10 m |
| Airport (PDX) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 31 ft9 m |
| Average of all land | 260 ft80 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
13 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas counties, Oregon, United States
- Population
- 635,749 2024 est.
- Land area
- 133.5 sq mi + 11.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 4,763 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.5235° N, 122.6762° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Portland International (PDX) 31 ft
- ZIP codes 31
31 ZIP codes
97086 97201 97202 97203 97204 97205 97206 97208 97209 97210 97211 97212 97213 97214 97215 97216 97217 97218 97219 97220 97221 97227 97229 97230 97231 97232 97233 97236 97239 97258 97266
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- West Haven-Sylvan560 ft
- Cedar Mill420 ft
- Dunthorpe370 ft
- West Slope290 ft
- Raleigh Hills280 ft
- Garden Home-Whitford250 ft
- Cedar Hills240 ft
- Metzger220 ft
- Portland210 ft
- Maywood Park160 ft
- Milwaukie150 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Oregon303rd highest of 425
- Towns in Multnomah County5th highest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Devils Peak, Clackamas County5,050 ft
- Fish Creek Mountain5,020 ft
- Lost Lake Butte4,460 ft
- Green Mountain, Washington County2,220 ft
- Bald Peak1,640 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.