Elevation of Rancho Palos Verdes, California, United States of America

Rancho Palos Verdes, California, United States of America is 96 m (315 ft) above sea level.

Rancho Palos Verdes's height from sea level is 96 metres, or 315 feet. GeoNames reads 67 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 67 m.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 390 m

Mean 102 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 390 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

79th of 212

among the towns of California, and 569th of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

11 km to the NE, at 31 m, 65 m lower.

Cross-section through Rancho Palos Verdes

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 Rancho Palos Verdes; the vertical scale is the same on both.

441-33WE26.3 km
West to east: from 0 m at 13 km west to 8 m at 13 km east.
441-33NS26.3 km
North to south: from 54 m at 13 km north to 0 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 55 km around Rancho Palos Verdes, 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 Rancho Palos Verdes

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Torrance 11 kmNE 31 m (102 ft) −65 m
Redondo Beach 11.6 kmN 28 m (92 ft) −68 m
Carson 13.7 kmNE 15 m (49 ft) −81 m
Gardena 17.5 kmNE 18 m (59 ft) −78 m
Hawthorne 19.4 kmN 27 m (89 ft) −69 m

Peaks and passes near Rancho Palos Verdes

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

Where Rancho Palos Verdes is

Latitude 33.7444613, longitude -118.3870173. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Rancho Palos Verdes elevation: 96 m (315 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 Rancho Palos Verdes'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 67 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.