Elevation of Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
Sunnyvale, California, United States of America is 36 m (118 ft) above sea level.
Sunnyvale's height from sea level is 36 metres, or 118 feet. GeoNames reads 37 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 38 m.
Ground within 5 km
Mean 36 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 130 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Rank by elevation
among the towns of California, and 709th of 1,000 in United States of America.
Cross-section through Sunnyvale
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 Sunnyvale; 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 Sunnyvale
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mountain View | 4.6 km | NW | 31 m (102 ft) | −5 m |
| Cupertino | 5.1 km | S | 70 m (230 ft) | +34 m |
| Santa Clara | 7.4 km | E | 20 m (66 ft) | −16 m |
| Palo Alto | 12.4 km | NW | 10 m (33 ft) | −26 m |
| San Jose | 12.9 km | E | 23 m (75 ft) | −13 m |
Peaks and passes near Sunnyvale
- Mount Bielawski, peak at 982 m (3,222 ft), 16.9 km to the S — 946 m above the town.
- Castle Rock, peak at 976 m (3,202 ft), 16.5 km to the S — 940 m above the town.
- The Peak, peak at 917 m (3,009 ft), 16.9 km to the S — 881 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Sunnyvale is
Latitude 37.36883, longitude -122.0363496. 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 Sunnyvale'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 37 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.