Elevation of La Mesa, California, United States of America
La Mesa, California, United States of America is 164 m (538 ft) above sea level.
La Mesa's height from sea level is 164 metres, or 538 feet. GeoNames reads 162 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 161 m.
Ground within 5 km
Mean 175 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 260 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Rank by elevation
among the towns of California, and 454th of 1,000 in United States of America.
Cross-section through La Mesa
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is La 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 La Mesa
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| El Cajon | 6.4 km | NE | 134 m (440 ft) | −30 m |
| Santee | 9.1 km | NE | 112 m (367 ft) | −52 m |
| San Diego | 11.9 km | NW | 127 m (417 ft) | −37 m |
| National City | 12.3 km | SW | 20 m (66 ft) | −144 m |
| Chula Vista | 15.3 km | S | 18 m (59 ft) | −146 m |
Peaks and passes near La Mesa
- Sycuan Peak, peak at 840 m (2,756 ft), 20.3 km to the E — 676 m above the town.
- Iron Mountain, peak at 818 m (2,684 ft), 23.4 km to the N — 654 m above the town.
- San Miguel Mountain, peak at 780 m (2,559 ft), 11.4 km to the SE — 616 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where La Mesa is
Latitude 32.7678287, longitude -117.0230839. 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 La 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 162 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.