Elevation of San Francisco, California, United States of America
San Francisco, California, United States of America is 29 m (95 ft) above sea level.
San Francisco's height from sea level is 29 metres, or 95 feet. GeoNames reads 28 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 30 m.
Ground within 5 km
Mean 42 m across the 9.1 km square centred on the town, 205 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Rank by elevation
among the towns of California, and 741st of 1,000 in United States of America.
Cross-section through San Francisco
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 San Francisco; 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 San Francisco
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Francisco de Asis de Yarusyacan (Peru) | 0 km | N | 29 m (95 ft) | same |
| Daly City | 10.7 km | SW | 55 m (180 ft) | +26 m |
| South San Francisco | 13.4 km | S | 5 m (16 ft) | −24 m |
| Oakland | 13.4 km | E | 16 m (52 ft) | −13 m |
| Alameda | 15.7 km | E | 8 m (26 ft) | −21 m |
Peaks and passes near San Francisco
- East Peak, peak at 783 m (2,569 ft), 22.1 km to the NW — 754 m above the town.
- West Peak, peak at 776 m (2,546 ft), 22.7 km to the NW — 747 m above the town.
- Middle Peak, peak at 766 m (2,513 ft), 22.5 km to the NW — 737 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 Francisco is
Latitude 37.7749295, longitude -122.4194155. 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 Francisco'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 28 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.