Elevation of Cupertino, California, United States of America

Cupertino, California, United States of America is 70 m (230 ft) above sea level.

Cupertino's height from sea level is 70 metres, or 230 feet. GeoNames reads 72 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 72 m.

Ground within 5 km

18 m – 291 m

Mean 84 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 273 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

90th of 212

among the towns of California, and 605th of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

5.1 km to the N, at 36 m, 34 m lower.

Cross-section through Cupertino

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.8 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Cupertino; the vertical scale is the same on both.

844-63WE25.8 km
West to east: from 752 m at 13 km west to 29 m at 13 km east.
844-63NS25.8 km
North to south: from 0 m at 13 km north to 565 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 54 km around Cupertino, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 54 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 Cupertino

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Sunnyvale 5.1 kmN 36 m (118 ft) −34 m
Santa Clara 7.6 kmNE 20 m (66 ft) −50 m
Mountain View 8.4 kmNW 31 m (102 ft) −39 m
San Jose 12.3 kmE 23 m (75 ft) −47 m
Milpitas 16.1 kmNE 4 m (13 ft) −66 m

Peaks and passes near Cupertino

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

Where Cupertino is

Latitude 37.3229978, longitude -122.0321823. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Cupertino elevation: 70 m (230 ft) above sea level

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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 Cupertino'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 72 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.