SeaTac, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
510 ft 155 m390 ft 120 m330 ft 100 m210 ft 65 m90 ft 28 m30 ft 9 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
SeaTac sits at about 400 ft (120 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
400 ft 120 m
most residents: 330–460 ft
Lowest
30 ft 9 m
on the southeast side
Highest
510 ft 155 m
on the east side
Average
370 ft 110 m
all land inside city limits
SeaTac spans about 480 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 | 400 ft120 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 510 ft155 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 30 ft9 m |
| Town center USGS map point for SeaTac | 260 ft80 m |
| Airport (SEA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 432 ft132 m |
| Average of all land | 370 ft110 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in King County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 34,024 2024 est.
- Land area
- 10.1 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,381 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.4537° N, 122.3218° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Strait of Juan de Fuca
- Airport
- Seattle-tacoma International (SEA) 432 ft
- ZIP codes 5
- 98148 98158 98168 98188 98198
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- White Center410 ft
- Kent400 ft
- SeaTac400 ft
- Renton370 ft
- Burien360 ft
- Bryn Mawr-Skyway310 ft
- Vashon270 ft
- Normandy Park260 ft
- Des Moines260 ft
- Tukwila240 ft
- Boulevard Park170 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington324th highest of 639
- Towns in King County29th highest of 62
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Rattlesnake Mountain, King County3,519 ft
- Tiger Mountain3,004 ft
- Taylor Mountain2,610 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).
- 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.