Elevation of Mountain View, California, United States of America

Mountain View, California, United States of America is 31 m (102 ft) above sea level.

Mountain View's height from sea level is 31 metres, or 102 feet. GeoNames reads 34 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 32 m.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 254 m

Mean 42 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 254 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

134th of 212

among the towns of California, and 722nd of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

4.6 km to the SE, at 36 m, 5 m higher.

Cross-section through Mountain View

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 Mountain View; the vertical scale is the same on both.

529-41WE25.8 km
West to east: from 185 m at 13 km west to 9 m at 13 km east.
529-41NS25.8 km
North to south: from 0 m at 13 km north to 489 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 54 km around Mountain View, 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 Mountain View

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Sunnyvale 4.6 kmSE 36 m (118 ft) +5 m
Palo Alto 8.1 kmNW 10 m (33 ft) −21 m
Cupertino 8.4 kmSE 70 m (230 ft) +39 m
Santa Clara 11.9 kmE 20 m (66 ft) −11 m
Milpitas 16.3 kmE 4 m (13 ft) −27 m

Peaks and passes near Mountain View

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

Where Mountain View is

Latitude 37.3860517, longitude -122.0838511. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Mountain View elevation: 31 m (102 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 Mountain View'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 34 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.