Shoreline, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
530 ft 160 m400 ft 120 m330 ft 100 m200 ft 60 m67 ft 20 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
Shoreline sits at about 410 ft (125 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
410 ft 125 m
most residents: 270–480 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Puget Sound
Highest
530 ft 160 m
on the southwest side
Average
380 ft 115 m
all land inside city limits
Shoreline spans about 530 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 | 410 ft125 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 530 ft160 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Puget Sound | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Shoreline | 470 ft145 m |
| Airport (PAE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.8 mi north of the city limits | 607 ft185 m |
| Average of all land | 380 ft115 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in King County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 66,251 2024 est.
- Land area
- 11.6 sq mi + 0.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 5,694 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.7557° N, 122.3415° 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 3
- 98133 98155 98177
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Esperance430 ft
- Mountlake Terrace430 ft
- Lynnwood430 ft
- Shoreline410 ft
- Brier380 ft
- Edmonds360 ft
- Alderwood Manor360 ft
- Bothell West320 ft
- Woodway280 ft
- Lake Forest Park230 ft
- Kenmore170 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington312th highest of 639
- Towns in King County25th highest of 62
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Tiger Mountain3,004 ft
- Mount Walker2,800 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).
- 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, −1 ft at 47.7735° N, 122.3937° 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.