Wenatchee, WA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,740 ft 530 m1,460 ft 445 m1,320 ft 400 m1,040 ft 315 m760 ft 230 m620 ft 190 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
Wenatchee sits at about 800 ft (245 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
800 ft 245 m
most residents: 710–930 ft
Lowest
620 ft 190 m
near the middle
Highest
1,740 ft 530 m
on the north edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
820 ft 250 m
all land inside city limits
Wenatchee spans about 1,120 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 | 800 ft245 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,740 ft530 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, near the middle | 620 ft190 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Wenatchee | 670 ft205 m |
| Airport (EAT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.0 mi east of the city limits | 1,249 ft381 m |
| Average of all land | 820 ft250 m |
| Nearest peak Horse Lake Mountain, 3.6 mi west of the city limits | 4,620 ft1,410 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Chelan County, Washington, United States
- Population
- 35,401 2024 est.
- Land area
- 10.6 sq mi + 0.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,327 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.4235° N, 120.3103° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Cascade-sierra Mountains
- Drains to
- Columbia River → Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Pangborn Memorial (EAT) 1,249 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 98801
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Waterville2,630 ft
- Quincy1,300 ft
- Leavenworth1,190 ft
- Sunnyslope970 ft
- East Wenatchee870 ft
- Wenatchee800 ft
- Cashmere800 ft
- Entiat800 ft
- South Wenatchee760 ft
- Rock Island650 ft
- Crescent Bar580 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Washington198th highest of 639
- Towns in Chelan County6th highest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Chumstick Mountain5,760 ft
- Burch Mountain4,940 ft
- Tiptop4,760 ft
- Horse Lake Mountain4,620 ft
- Badger Mountain4,240 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. All public domain.