Pittsburgh, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,360 ft 415 m1,200 ft 365 m1,110 ft 340 m950 ft 290 m790 ft 240 m710 ft 215 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
Pittsburgh sits at about 980 ft (300 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
980 ft 300 m
most residents: 780–1,160 ft
Lowest
710 ft 215 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,360 ft 415 m
on the north side
Average
970 ft 295 m
all land inside city limits
Pittsburgh spans about 650 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 | 980 ft300 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 1,360 ft415 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 710 ft215 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Pittsburgh | 770 ft235 m |
| Airport (PIT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.6 mi west of the city limits | 1,203 ft367 m |
| Average of all land | 970 ft295 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
7.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 307,668 2024 est.
- Land area
- 55.4 sq mi + 3.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 5,556 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.4406° N, 79.9959° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Pittsburgh International (PIT) 1,203 ft
- ZIP codes 30
- 15120 15201 15203 15204 15205 15206 15207 15208 15210 15211 15212 15213 15214 15216 15217 15218 15219 15220 15221 15222 15224 15226 15227 15232 15233 15234 15236 15260 15282 15290
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Dormont1,190 ft
- Mount Oliver1,160 ft
- Reserve Township1,160 ft
- Baldwin Township1,160 ft
- Green Tree1,120 ft
- Thornburg1,070 ft
- Pittsburgh980 ft
- Crafton930 ft
- Ingram870 ft
- Millvale790 ft
- McKees Rocks760 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,782nd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Allegheny County90th highest of 155
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sheppler Hill1,411 ft
- Hannas Knob1,400 ft
- Pollocks Knob1,350 ft
- Rich Hill, Allegheny County1,270 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.