Bethlehem, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
930 ft 280 m750 ft 225 m660 ft 200 m480 ft 145 m300 ft 90 m210 ft 65 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
Bethlehem sits at about 340 ft (105 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
340 ft 105 m
most residents: 280–390 ft
Lowest
210 ft 65 m
on the east side
Highest
930 ft 280 m
on the south side
Average
350 ft 105 m
all land inside city limits
Bethlehem spans about 720 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 | 340 ft105 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 930 ft280 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 210 ft65 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Bethlehem | 360 ft110 m |
| Airport (ABE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.6 mi northwest of the city limits | 394 ft120 m |
| Average of all land | 350 ft105 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Northampton and Lehigh counties, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 79,453 2024 est.
- Land area
- 19.1 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 4,157 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.6259° N, 75.3705° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Delaware River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Lehigh Valley International (ABE) 394 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 18015 18017 18018
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lower Saucon Township440 ft
- Lower Nazareth Township390 ft
- Fountain Hill380 ft
- Bethlehem Township380 ft
- Hanover Township, Lehigh County370 ft
- Hanover Township, Northampton County370 ft
- Fullerton360 ft
- Middletown, Northampton County340 ft
- Bethlehem340 ft
- Hellertown330 ft
- Freemansburg300 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania3,285th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Northampton County43rd highest of 50
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Kirchberg1,010 ft
- Green Hill, Northampton County710 ft
- Camelhump580 ft
- Dutch Hill, Lehigh County560 ft
- Pinetop460 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.