Elevation of Watsonville, California, United States of America

Watsonville, California, United States of America is 10 m (33 ft) above sea level.

Watsonville's height from sea level is 10 metres, or 33 feet. GeoNames reads 10 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 9 m.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 95 m

Mean 24 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 95 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

189th of 212

among the towns of California, and 891st of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

19.8 km to the NE, at 62 m, 52 m higher.

Cross-section through Watsonville

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Watsonville; the vertical scale is the same on both.

578-43WE25.9 km
West to east: from 0 m at 13 km west to 120 m at 13 km east.
578-43NS25.9 km
North to south: from 535 m at 13 km north to 0 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 54 km around Watsonville, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 54 km across, north up; the ring marks the town.

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 Watsonville

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Gilroy 19.8 kmNE 62 m (203 ft) +52 m
Santa Cruz de Cocachacra (Peru) 25.4 kmW 8 m (26 ft) −2 m
Santa Cruz 25.4 kmW 8 m (26 ft) −2 m
Salinas 27.4 kmS 14 m (46 ft) +4 m

Peaks and passes near Watsonville

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Watsonville is

Latitude 36.910231, longitude -121.7568946. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Watsonville elevation: 10 m (33 ft) above sea level

A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Watsonville'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 10 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.