Elevation of San Luis Obispo, California, United States of America
San Luis Obispo, California, United States of America is 68 m (223 ft) above sea level.
San Luis Obispo's height from sea level is 68 metres, or 223 feet. GeoNames reads 74 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 71 m.
Ground within 5 km
Mean 134 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 389 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Rank by elevation
among the towns of California, and 610th of 1,000 in United States of America.
Cross-section through San Luis Obispo
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is San Luis Obispo; 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.
Peaks and passes near San Luis Obispo
- Hi Mountain, peak at 969 m (3,179 ft), 21.5 km to the E — 901 m above the town.
- Lopez Mountain, peak at 869 m (2,851 ft), 7.7 km to the E — 801 m above the town.
- Hi Mountain Potrero, peak at 865 m (2,838 ft), 21 km to the E — 797 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 Luis Obispo is
Latitude 35.2827524, longitude -120.6596156. 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 Luis Obispo'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 74 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.