Lynnwood, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
610 ft 185 m460 ft 140 m380 ft 115 m230 ft 70 m76 ft 23 m0 ft 0 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Lynnwood sits at about 430 ft (130 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
430 ft 130 m
most residents: 360–520 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on the Salish Sea
Highest
610 ft 185 m
on the northeast side
Average
420 ft 130 m
all land inside city limits
Lynnwood spans about 610 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 | 430 ft130 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 610 ft185 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets the Salish Sea | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lynnwood | 390 ft120 m |
| Airport (PAE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.7 mi north of the city limits | 607 ft185 m |
| Average of all land | 420 ft130 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Snohomish County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 41,597 2024 est.
- Land area
- 7.9 sq mi
- Density
- 5,260 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.8209° N, 122.3151° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Strait of Juan de Fuca
- Airport
- Seattle Paine Field International (PAE) 607 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 98036 98037
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Larch Way520 ft
- North Lynnwood510 ft
- Meadowdale490 ft
- Esperance430 ft
- Mountlake Terrace430 ft
- Lynnwood430 ft
- Brier380 ft
- Edmonds360 ft
- Alderwood Manor360 ft
- Bothell West320 ft
- Woodway280 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington302nd highest of 639
- Towns in Snohomish County22nd highest of 66
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Pilchuck5,300 ft
- Tiger Mountain3,004 ft
- Mount Walker2,800 ft
- Squak Mountain2,020 ft
- Gold Mountain, Kitsap County1,760 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, 0 ft at 47.8457° N, 122.3415° 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 NGS survey heights. All public domain.