Elevation of Berkeley, California, United States of America

Berkeley, California, United States of America is 56 m (184 ft) above sea level.

Berkeley's height from sea level is 56 metres, or 184 feet. GeoNames reads 55 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 52 m.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 446 m

Mean 107 m across the 9.1 km square centred on the town, 446 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

101st of 212

among the towns of California, and 631st of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

7.5 km to the S, at 16 m, 40 m lower.

Cross-section through Berkeley

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 Berkeley; the vertical scale is the same on both.

437-33WE25.7 km
West to east: from 0 m at 13 km west to 225 m at 13 km east.
437-33NS25.7 km
North to south: from 118 m at 13 km north to 0 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 54 km around Berkeley, 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 Berkeley

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Oakland 7.5 kmS 16 m (52 ft) −40 m
Richmond 9.7 kmNW 14 m (46 ft) −42 m
Alameda 12.1 kmS 8 m (26 ft) −48 m
San Francisco de Asis de Yarusyacan (Peru) 16.8 kmSW 29 m (95 ft) −27 m
San Francisco 16.8 kmSW 29 m (95 ft) −27 m

Peaks and passes near Berkeley

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

Where Berkeley is

Latitude 37.8715926, longitude -122.272747. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Berkeley elevation: 56 m (184 ft) above sea level

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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 Berkeley'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 55 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.