Friday Harbor, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
760 ft 230 m570 ft 175 m480 ft 145 m290 ft 90 m99 ft 30 m5 ft 1 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Friday Harbor sits at about 95 ft (29 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
95 ft 29 m
most residents: 41–180 ft
Lowest
5 ft 1 m
near the middle
Highest
760 ft 230 m
on the west side
Average
210 ft 65 m
all land inside town limits
Friday Harbor spans about 755 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 | 95 ft29 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the west side | 760 ft230 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, near the middle | 5 ft1 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Friday Harbor | 58 ft18 m |
| Airport (FHR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 113 ft34 m |
| Average of all land | 210 ft65 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in San Juan County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 2,744 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.2 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,255 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 48.5343° N, 123.0171° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Strait of Juan de Fuca
- Airport
- Friday Harbor (FHR) 113 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 98250
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Anacortes150 ft
- Oak Harbor140 ft
- Marietta-Alderwood130 ft
- Roche Harbor120 ft
- Coupeville110 ft
- Friday Harbor95 ft
- Bay View83 ft
- Jamestown27 ft
- Whidbey Island Station21 ft
- La Conner8 ft
- Edison7 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington558th highest of 639
- Towns in San Juan Countylowest of 2
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Lookout Mountain, Whatcom County2,670 ft
- Mount Constitution2,399 ft
- Chuckanut Mountain2,300 ft
- Lummi Peak1,690 ft
- Turtleback Mountain1,520 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town 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 town 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.