Pasadena, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
150 ft 45 m110 ft 35 m93 ft 28 m56 ft 17 m19 ft 6 m0 ft 0 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
Pasadena sits at about 30 ft (9 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
30 ft 9 m
most residents: 23–36 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Nassau Bay
Highest
150 ft 45 m
on the northeast side
Average
26 ft 8 m
all land inside city limits
Pasadena spans about 150 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.
Under 1% of Pasadena's land lies below the average daily high tide (MHHW, NOAA), and under 1% lies less than 3 ft above it. Check flood zones on FEMA's map
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 30 ft9 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 150 ft45 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Nassau Bay | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Pasadena | 27 ft8 m |
| Airport (HOU) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.4 mi southwest of the city limits | 46 ft14 m |
| Average of all land | 26 ft8 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Harris County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 149,617 2024 est.
- Land area
- 43.7 sq mi + 1.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,424 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 29.6911° N, 95.2091° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
- Airport
- William P Hobby (HOU) 46 ft
- ZIP codes 9
- 77058 77059 77502 77503 77504 77505 77506 77507 77586
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Houston61 ft
- Pearland50 ft
- Brookside Village46 ft
- Channelview31 ft
- South Houston30 ft
- Pasadena30 ft
- Deer Park30 ft
- Cloverleaf29 ft
- Friendswood28 ft
- Jacinto City28 ft
- Galena Park26 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas1,737th highest of 1,861
- Towns in Harris County24th highest of 37
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mesquite Knoll (historical)22 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, −2 ft at 29.6110° N, 94.9904° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted; this coastal land's lowest point is sea level on the coast.
- 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 tidal surfaces (MHHW). All public domain.