What Is My Elevation?
Find ground elevation in feet and meters.
Example: USGS gives a ground elevation of 144 ft (44 m) at the central point of Seattle, WA, 47.619335, -122.351538.
You can also choose device location or enter a point.
Your point will appear here on the map.Let’s find your location.
Use your device, enter coordinates or choose a US city.
Device location needs your permission.
On this page, choosing device location also sends that point to USGS for ground elevation. USGS may log the request.
- City or town
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- County or equivalent
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- County code (FIPS)
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- State or region
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- Country
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- Census ZIP area
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- Time zone
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- Local time
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- Latitude, longitude
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- IP address
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- Today
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- Sunrise
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- Sunset
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- Ground elevation
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Sunrise and sunset are approximate, for a level horizon. Hills, buildings and weather can change when the sun becomes visible.
Why answers can differ
IP versus GPS · ZIP versus ZCTA · Device versus physical time zone
The copy includes the selected coordinates. Share it only with someone you choose.
Works with no signal once saved
Save this area’s maps on this device. With no signal, your device position still finds the county, ZIP area, time zone and coordinates here. No coordinates or location history are saved. A new area and USGS elevation need a connection.
Ground elevation United States
Choose a point first
Choosing this sends the selected coordinates to USGS. USGS may log the request.
Put your elevation in context
Your point’s ground height beside heights you may know, from the lowest point in the United States to its highest summit. A comparison guide, not safety bands or a measure of climbing difficulty.
- Denali (Mount McKinley)20,310 ft · 6,190 m
- Mount Whitney14,505 ft · 4,421 m
- Telescope Peak11,049 ft · 3,368 m
- Colorado Capitol mile-high marker, Denver5,280 ft · 1,609 m
- Sea level reference0 ft · 0 m
- Badwater Basin−282 ft · −86 m
Your point
Ground elevation is not your floor
The elevation answer estimates the ground at the selected point. It will not tell you how high you are inside a building or above a bridge. Your phone’s altitude can refer to a different starting level, so it may disagree with ground elevation. To read heights off a map instead, see how to find the elevation of a spot on a map.
A hill needs a precise point
On a steep slope, a wide location accuracy circle can cover noticeably different elevations. Check the point first, then request elevation. Small heights keep their sign and a decimal so a point just above or below sea level does not look like zero. Extra digits do not make it a surveyed height. Copy the coordinates to check the same point elsewhere.
When an elevation is unavailable
The service may be offline or have no coverage at that point. An unavailable answer is not sea level. Your other location details still work. Terrain elevation is an estimate; work that needs a surveyed height requires a survey.
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