Elevation of San Rafael, California, United States of America
San Rafael, California, United States of America is 6 m (20 ft) above sea level.
San Rafael's height from sea level is 6 metres, or 20 feet. GeoNames reads 13 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 13 m.
Ground within 5 km
Mean 61 m across the 9.1 km square centred on the town, 485 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Rank by elevation
among the towns of California, and 960th of 1,000 in United States of America.
Cross-section through San Rafael
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 Rafael; 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 Rafael
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Novato | 15.3 km | N | 10 m (33 ft) | +4 m |
| Richmond | 16.6 km | E | 14 m (46 ft) | +8 m |
| San Francisco de Asis de Yarusyacan (Peru) | 24.2 km | SE | 29 m (95 ft) | +23 m |
| San Francisco | 24.2 km | SE | 29 m (95 ft) | +23 m |
| Berkeley | 25.3 km | SE | 56 m (184 ft) | +50 m |
Peaks and passes near San Rafael
- East Peak, peak at 783 m (2,569 ft), 6.4 km to the SW — 777 m above the town.
- West Peak, peak at 776 m (2,546 ft), 8 km to the SW — 770 m above the town.
- Middle Peak, peak at 766 m (2,513 ft), 7.2 km to the SW — 760 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 Rafael is
Latitude 37.9735346, longitude -122.5310874. 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 Rafael'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.