Bala Cynwyd, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
340 ft 105 m260 ft 80 m220 ft 65 m140 ft 40 m52 ft 16 m10 ft 3 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Bala Cynwyd sits at about 280 ft (85 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
280 ft 85 m
most residents: 230–310 ft
Lowest
11 ft 3 m
on the northeast side
Highest
340 ft 105 m
on the west side
Average
240 ft 70 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Bala Cynwyd spans about 329 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 | 280 ft85 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 340 ft105 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 11 ft3 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Bala Cynwyd | 310 ft95 m |
| Airport (PHL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.5 mi south of the CDP boundary | 36 ft11 m |
| Average of all land | 240 ft70 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 9,285 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.3 sq mi
- Density
- 4,056 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.0076° N, 75.2341° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Delaware River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Philadelphia International (PHL) 36 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 19004
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Haverford College350 ft
- Ardmore330 ft
- Lower Merion Township310 ft
- Narberth300 ft
- Haverford Township290 ft
- Wynnewood290 ft
- Merion Station290 ft
- Bala Cynwyd280 ft
- Penn Wynne220 ft
- East Lansdowne120 ft
- Millbourne110 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania3,386th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Montgomery County51st highest of 107
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Camp Hill340 ft
- Fort Hill, Montgomery County290 ft
- Lafayette Hill280 ft
- Georges Hill270 ft
- Lemon Hill140 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Bala Cynwyd is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.