Elevation of San Diego, California, United States of America

San Diego, California, United States of America is 127 m (417 ft) above sea level.

San Diego's height from sea level is 127 metres, or 417 feet.

Ground within 5 km

16 m – 151 m

Mean 99 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 135 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

64th of 212

among the towns of California, and 512th of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

La Mesa

11.9 km to the SE, at 164 m, 37 m higher.

Cross-section through San Diego

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is San Diego; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 46 m at 13 km west to 231 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 93 m at 13 km north to 0 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 56 km around San Diego, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 56 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 San Diego

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
La Mesa	11.9 km	SE	164 m (538 ft)	+37 m
National City	15.2 km	S	20 m (66 ft)	−107 m
Santee	15.8 km	E	112 m (367 ft)	−15 m
El Cajon	16.7 km	E	134 m (440 ft)	+7 m
Poway	19.6 km	NE	157 m (515 ft)	+30 m

Peaks and passes near San Diego

Iron Mountain, peak at 818 m (2,684 ft), 24.8 km to the NE — 691 m above the town.
San Miguel Mountain, peak at 780 m (2,559 ft), 22.9 km to the SE — 653 m above the town.
Goat Peak, peak at 514 m (1,686 ft), 22.5 km to the NE — 387 m above the town.

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

Where San Diego is

Latitude 32.81, longitude -117.14. 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 San Diego'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.