Elevation of Petaluma, California, United States of America

Petaluma, California, United States of America is 9 m (30 ft) above sea level.

Petaluma's height from sea level is 9 metres, or 30 feet. GeoNames reads 4 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 9 m.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 123 m

Mean 44 m across the 9.1 km square centred on the town, 123 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

192nd of 212

among the towns of California, and 907th of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

Rohnert Park

13.2 km to the NW, at 30 m, 21 m higher.

Cross-section through Petaluma

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 Petaluma; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 118 m at 13 km west to 105 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 190 m at 13 km north to 113 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 54 km around Petaluma, 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 Petaluma

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Rohnert Park	13.2 km	NW	30 m (98 ft)	+21 m
Novato	15.1 km	SE	10 m (33 ft)	+1 m
Santa Rosa	24.1 km	N	53 m (174 ft)	+44 m
San Rafael	30.2 km	S	6 m (20 ft)	−3 m
Napa	30.6 km	E	13 m (43 ft)	+4 m

Peaks and passes near Petaluma

Mount Veeder, peak at 817 m (2,680 ft), 23.2 km to the NE — 808 m above the town.
Sonoma Mountain, peak at 697 m (2,287 ft), 11.4 km to the NE — 688 m above the town.
Bismark Knob, peak at 694 m (2,277 ft), 22.1 km to the NE — 685 m above the town.

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

Where Petaluma is

Latitude 38.232417, longitude -122.6366524. 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 Petaluma'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 4 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.