Austin, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,110 ft 340 m930 ft 280 m840 ft 255 m650 ft 200 m470 ft 145 m380 ft 115 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
Austin sits at about 670 ft (205 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
670 ft 205 m
most residents: 520–910 ft
Lowest
380 ft 115 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,110 ft 340 m
on the west side
Average
700 ft 210 m
all land inside city limits
Austin spans about 730 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 | 670 ft205 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 1,110 ft340 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 380 ft115 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Austin | 490 ft150 m |
| Airport (AUS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 542 ft165 m |
| Average of all land | 700 ft210 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
22 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Travis, Williamson and Hays counties, Texas, United States
- Population
- 993,588 2024 est.
- Land area
- 324.8 sq mi + 6.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,059 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 30.2672° N, 97.7431° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Colorado River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Austin-bergstrom International (AUS) 542 ft
- ZIP codes 48
48 ZIP codes
78610 78613 78617 78652 78653 78660 78701 78702 78703 78704 78705 78712 78717 78719 78721 78722 78723 78724 78725 78726 78727 78728 78729 78730 78731 78732 78733 78734 78735 78736 78739 78741 78742 78744 78745 78746 78747 78748 78749 78750 78751 78752 78753 78754 78756 78757 78758 78759
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lost Creek870 ft
- Barton Creek790 ft
- Steiner Ranch770 ft
- Shady Hollow750 ft
- West Lake Hills730 ft
- Sunset Valley690 ft
- Manchaca680 ft
- Austin670 ft
- San Leanna670 ft
- Rollingwood600 ft
- Hornsby Bend430 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas673rd highest of 1,861
- Towns in Travis County19th highest of 26
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Martin Hill930 ft
- Cat Mountain930 ft
- Davis Hill, Travis County880 ft
- Mount Barker870 ft
- Mount Bonnell870 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.