Elevation of Rancho Santa Margarita, California, United States of America
Rancho Santa Margarita, California, United States of America is 287 m (942 ft) above sea level.
Rancho Santa Margarita's height from sea level is 287 metres, or 942 feet. GeoNames reads 285 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 282 m.
Ground within 5 km
Mean 303 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 445 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Rank by elevation
among the towns of California, and 205th of 1,000 in United States of America.
Cross-section through Rancho Santa Margarita
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 Santa Margarita; the vertical scale is the same on both.
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 Santa Margarita
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mission Viejo | 7.8 km | SW | 137 m (449 ft) | −150 m |
| Lake Forest | 8 km | W | 151 m (495 ft) | −136 m |
| Aliso Viejo | 13.5 km | SW | 146 m (479 ft) | −141 m |
| Laguna Niguel | 16.3 km | SW | 132 m (433 ft) | −155 m |
| Irvine | 18.4 km | W | 29 m (95 ft) | −258 m |
Peaks and passes near Rancho Santa Margarita
- Santiago Peak, peak at 1,735 m (5,692 ft), 10 km to the NE — 1,448 m above the town.
- Modjeska Peak, peak at 1,641 m (5,384 ft), 10.3 km to the NE — 1,354 m above the town.
- Trabuco Peak, peak at 1,406 m (4,613 ft), 13.7 km to the NE — 1,119 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Rancho Santa Margarita is
Latitude 33.640855, longitude -117.603104. 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 Rancho Santa Margarita'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 285 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.