Elevation of San Mateo, California, United States of America
San Mateo, California, United States of America is 13 m (43 ft) above sea level.
San Mateo's height from sea level is 13 metres, or 43 feet. GeoNames reads 13 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 12 m.
Ground within 5 km
Mean 43 m across the 9.1 km square centred on the town, 189 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Rank by elevation
among the towns of California, and 859th of 1,000 in United States of America.
Cross-section through San Mateo
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.8 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is San Mateo; 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 Mateo
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Bruno | 10.6 km | NW | 7 m (23 ft) | −6 m |
| Redwood City | 11.7 km | SE | 4 m (13 ft) | −9 m |
| South San Francisco | 12.5 km | NW | 5 m (16 ft) | −8 m |
| Daly City | 18.9 km | NW | 55 m (180 ft) | +42 m |
| Palo Alto | 21 km | SE | 10 m (33 ft) | −3 m |
Peaks and passes near San Mateo
- Morena Sierra, peak at 731 m (2,398 ft), 17 km to the S — 718 m above the town.
- Skeggs Point, peak at 703 m (2,306 ft), 17 km to the S — 690 m above the town.
- Kings Mountain, peak at 637 m (2,090 ft), 13.6 km to the S — 624 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 Mateo is
Latitude 37.5629917, longitude -122.3255254. 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 Mateo'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 13 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.