Elevation of Costa Mesa, California, United States of America
Costa Mesa, California, United States of America is 31 m (102 ft) above sea level.
Costa Mesa's height from sea level is 31 metres, or 102 feet. GeoNames reads 33 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 30 m.
Ground within 5 km
Mean 14 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 53 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Rank by elevation
among the towns of California, and 722nd of 1,000 in United States of America.
Cross-section through Costa Mesa
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Costa Mesa; the vertical scale is the same on both.
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 Costa Mesa
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newport Beach | 2.6 km | S | 0 m (0 ft) | −31 m |
| Huntington Beach | 7.8 km | W | 15 m (49 ft) | −16 m |
| Fountain Valley | 8.2 km | NW | 14 m (46 ft) | −17 m |
| Irvine | 12.4 km | NE | 29 m (95 ft) | −2 m |
| Santa Ana | 12.5 km | N | 40 m (131 ft) | +9 m |
Peaks and passes near Costa Mesa
- Signal Peak, peak at 354 m (1,161 ft), 10.6 km to the E — 323 m above the town.
- Temple Hill, peak at 307 m (1,007 ft), 18.2 km to the SE — 276 m above the town.
- Niguel Hill, peak at 285 m (935 ft), 22.3 km to the SE — 254 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Costa Mesa is
Latitude 33.6411316, longitude -117.9186689. 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 Costa Mesa'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 33 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.