Elevation of Gilroy, California, United States of America

Gilroy, California, United States of America is 62 m (203 ft) above sea level.

Gilroy's height from sea level is 62 metres, or 203 feet. GeoNames reads 60 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 61 m.

Ground within 5 km

46 m – 514 m

Mean 102 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 468 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

95th of 212

among the towns of California, and 620th of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

19.8 km to the SW, at 10 m, 52 m lower.

Cross-section through Gilroy

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Gilroy; the vertical scale is the same on both.

44313WE25.9 km
West to east: from 413 m at 13 km west to 229 m at 13 km east.
44313NS25.9 km
North to south: from 402 m at 13 km north to 86 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 54 km around Gilroy, 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 Gilroy

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Watsonville 19.8 kmSW 10 m (33 ft) −52 m
Salinas 37.3 kmS 14 m (46 ft) −48 m

Peaks and passes near Gilroy

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

Where Gilroy is

Latitude 37.0057816, longitude -121.5682751. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Gilroy elevation: 62 m (203 ft) above sea level

A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Gilroy'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 60 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.