Elevation of Novato, California, United States of America

Novato, California, United States of America is 10 m (33 ft) above sea level.

Novato's height from sea level is 10 metres, or 33 feet. GeoNames reads 6 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 9 m.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 510 m

Mean 80 m across the 9.1 km square centred on the town, 510 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

189th of 212

among the towns of California, and 891st of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

Petaluma

15.1 km to the NW, at 9 m, 1 m lower.

Cross-section through Novato

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Novato; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 318 m at 13 km west to 0 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 12 m at 13 km north to 33 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 54 km around Novato, 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 Novato

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Petaluma	15.1 km	NW	9 m (30 ft)	−1 m
San Rafael	15.3 km	S	6 m (20 ft)	−4 m
Richmond	27.2 km	SE	14 m (46 ft)	+4 m
Vallejo	27.4 km	E	22 m (72 ft)	+12 m
Rohnert Park	28.3 km	NW	30 m (98 ft)	+20 m

Peaks and passes near Novato

East Peak, peak at 783 m (2,569 ft), 19.9 km to the S — 773 m above the town.
West Peak, peak at 776 m (2,546 ft), 20.6 km to the S — 766 m above the town.
Middle Peak, peak at 766 m (2,513 ft), 20.1 km to the S — 756 m above the town.

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

Where Novato is

Latitude 38.1074198, longitude -122.5697032. 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 Novato'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 6 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.