Elevation of Paramount, California, United States of America

Paramount, California, United States of America is 24 m (79 ft) above sea level.

Paramount's height from sea level is 24 metres, or 79 feet. GeoNames reads 24 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 21 m.

Ground within 5 km

15 m – 36 m

Mean 24 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 21 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

152nd of 212

among the towns of California, and 768th of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

4 km to the E, at 24 m, the same elevation.

Cross-section through Paramount

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 Paramount; the vertical scale is the same on both.

643WE26.3 km
West to east: from 17 m at 13 km west to 23 m at 13 km east.
643NS26.3 km
North to south: from 50 m at 13 km north to 9 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 55 km around Paramount, 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 Paramount

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Bellflower 4 kmE 24 m (79 ft) same
Lakewood 4.6 kmSE 20 m (66 ft) −4 m
Compton 5.6 kmW 24 m (79 ft) same
Downey 6.2 kmNE 38 m (125 ft) +14 m
Lynwood 6.6 kmNW 30 m (98 ft) +6 m

Peaks and passes near Paramount

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

Where Paramount is

Latitude 33.8894598, longitude -118.1597911. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Paramount elevation: 24 m (79 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 Paramount'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 24 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.