Lubbock, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,330 ft 1,015 m3,270 ft 995 m3,240 ft 985 m3,180 ft 970 m3,120 ft 950 m3,090 ft 940 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
Lubbock sits at about 3,240 ft (985 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
3,240 ft 985 m
most residents: 3,210–3,280 ft
Lowest
3,090 ft 940 m
on the southeast side
Highest
3,330 ft 1,015 m
on the west side
Average
3,240 ft 985 m
all land inside city limits
Lubbock spans about 240 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 | 3,240 ft985 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 3,330 ft1,015 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 3,090 ft940 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lubbock | 3,200 ft975 m |
| Airport (LBB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 3,282 ft1,000 m |
| Average of all land | 3,240 ft985 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
14 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 3,240 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
206.0 °F96.7 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
89% of sea level
26.6 inHg (90.0 kPa): each breath holds 11% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.6% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+6% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Lubbock County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 272,086 2024 est.
- Land area
- 143.2 sq mi + 1.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,900 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.5779° N, 101.8552° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- North Fork Double Mountain Fork Brazos River → Double Mountain Fork Brazos River → Brazos River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Lubbock Preston Smith International (LBB) 3,282 ft
- ZIP codes 16
- 79382 79401 79402 79403 79404 79406 79407 79410 79411 79412 79413 79414 79415 79416 79423 79424
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Smyer3,390 ft
- Abernathy3,360 ft
- Wolfforth3,310 ft
- Shallowater3,310 ft
- New Deal3,290 ft
- Lubbock3,240 ft
- New Home3,230 ft
- Idalou3,190 ft
- Ransom Canyon3,110 ft
- Buffalo Springs Lake3,110 ft
- Slaton3,080 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas106th highest of 1,861
- Towns in Lubbock County4th highest of 8
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).
- Altitude effects: standard-atmosphere formulas applied to the typical elevation; UV from EPA's rule of thumb (about 2% per 1,000 ft).
- 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.