Elevation of Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Los Angeles, California, United States of America is 281 m (922 ft) above sea level.

Los Angeles's height from sea level is 281 metres, or 922 feet.

Ground within 5 km

53 m – 393 m

Mean 228 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 340 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

28th of 212

among the towns of California, and 213th of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

Culver City

10 km to the S, at 33 m, 248 m lower.

Cross-section through Los Angeles

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 Los Angeles; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 421 m at 13 km west to 181 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 269 m at 13 km north to 11 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around Los Angeles, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 55 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 Los Angeles

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Culver City (Guyana)	10 km	S	33 m (108 ft)	−248 m
Burbank	12.2 km	NE	179 m (587 ft)	−102 m
Santa Monica	12.5 km	SW	38 m (125 ft)	−243 m
Glendale	14.7 km	E	171 m (561 ft)	−110 m
Inglewood	17.3 km	S	44 m (144 ft)	−237 m

Peaks and passes near Los Angeles

Mount Lukens, peak at 1,544 m (5,066 ft), 23.7 km to the NE — 1,263 m above the town.
Kagel Mountain, peak at 1,081 m (3,547 ft), 25 km to the N — 800 m above the town.
Limerock Peak, peak at 905 m (2,969 ft), 23.6 km to the N — 624 m above the town.

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

Where Los Angeles is

Latitude 34.11, longitude -118.41. 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 Los Angeles'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.