Elevation of Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

Boulder, Colorado, United States of America is 1,637 m (5,371 ft) above sea level.

Boulder's height from sea level is 1,637 metres, or 5,371 feet. GeoNames reads 1,630 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1,655 m.

Ground within 5 km

1,595 m – 2,341 m

Mean 1,755 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 746 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

11th of 21

among the towns of Colorado, and 15th of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

Broomfield

18.9 km to the SE, at 1,649 m, 12 m higher.

Cross-section through Boulder

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Boulder; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 2,298 m at 13 km west to 1,617 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 1,695 m at 13 km north to 2,025 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 53 km around Boulder, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 53 km across, north up; the ring marks the town.

Shading is a north-west light over the grid's own slopes. Colour follows elevation: sea level and below, 0–200 m, 500 m, 1,000 m, 2,000 m, 3,500 m, 5,000 m and above.

Towns near Boulder

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Broomfield	18.9 km	SE	1,649 m (5,410 ft)	+12 m
Longmont	22.2 km	NE	1,525 m (5,003 ft)	−112 m
Westminster	28.1 km	SE	1,647 m (5,404 ft)	+10 m
Arvada	28.3 km	SE	1,632 m (5,354 ft)	−5 m
Thornton	30.3 km	SE	1,629 m (5,344 ft)	−8 m

Peaks and passes near Boulder

Niwot Mountain, peak at 3,497 m (11,473 ft), 24.5 km to the W — 1,860 m above the town.
Starr Peak, peak at 3,198 m (10,492 ft), 18.5 km to the SW — 1,561 m above the town.
Thorodin Mountain, peak at 3,195 m (10,482 ft), 19.4 km to the SW — 1,558 m above the town.

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Boulder is

Latitude 40.0149856, longitude -105.2705456. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Boulder's recorded coordinates. It is the height of the ground in that cell, not of any building; a town on a slope spans several cells, and the range above says how much that matters here. GeoNames' reading of 1,630 m comes from a finer 90 m SRTM grid at the point it records for the town, which may sit a few hundred metres from ours; the two agreeing to within a few metres is the usual case on flat ground, and a larger gap means the ground is steep. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.