Elevation Finder

Find the elevation of any place on Earth in meters and feet. Search a place, enter coordinates or use your location.

Elevation Finder tool

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Example

Input: Latitude 40.015, longitude -105.2705 (Boulder, Colorado)

Result: 1,621.3 m (5,319 ft). Dataset: USGS 3D Elevation Program (3DEP), grid cell about 1 m.

The USGS Elevation Point Query Service returned 1621.26 m for this point on 2026-09-25, and 1621.26 x 3.28084 = 5,319 ft. Open-Elevation, the worldwide fallback, gave 1,628 m for the same point because its grid cells are much larger.

  1. Search for a place and pick it from the list, or enter a latitude and longitude.
  2. Or press Use my location and allow location access.
  3. Press Find elevation if you typed the coordinates yourself.
  4. Read the height in meters and feet, and which dataset it came from.
  5. Open the OpenStreetMap link to check the point on a map.

Finding Your Height Above Sea Level

This elevation finder tells you how high the ground is above sea level at any point, in meters and feet. Search for a place, type a latitude and longitude, or use your phone's location. The center of Boulder, Colorado, for example, sits at about 1,621 m, or 5,319 ft.

Two free public services supply the heights. For points in the United States, the tool asks the USGS, the US Geological Survey. Its elevation maps are very detailed and are often made with lidar, a laser scan from aircraft. Everywhere else, or when USGS does not answer, it uses Open-Elevation. That service is built on SRTM, a radar map of the Earth made from the Space Shuttle in 2000. The result always names the dataset that answered.

Accuracy depends on the dataset. USGS values are usually within a few meters. The worldwide data averages each grid cell of about 250 m, so peaks and cliffs read low: the summit of Mount Everest shows 8,771 m instead of 8,849 m. SRTM also stops at 60°N and 56°S, so places farther north or south may show 0. Heights are for the ground, not the top of a building or tree.

Your browser sends only the coordinates to USGS or Open-Elevation. Place searches go to Photon, a free search service built on OpenStreetMap data. Your location is read only when you press the button. Elevation matters for hiking, baking and even your car. Air pressure drops as you climb, and the Pressure Converter helps you compare readings in different units.

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Frequently Asked Questions

It depends on the data behind it. In the US, USGS heights are usually within a few meters of the real ground level. Elsewhere, the worldwide SRTM data is averaged over large grid cells, so it can be off by tens of meters on steep ground. Flat, open land gives the most reliable results.
Phone GPS measures height from satellites and can easily be off by 10 meters or more. Some phones report height above a mathematical model of the Earth rather than above sea level. Others use a pressure sensor, which shifts with the weather. A map-based value like this one stays the same for a fixed point.
A result of exactly 0 m usually means the point is at sea level or on open water. North of 60°N or south of 56°S, it often means the worldwide dataset has no data there. Check that the latitude and longitude are not swapped, then try a nearby point on land.
It is meant as ground level above mean sea level, the average height of the sea. If you are on the 20th floor, add the height of the floors yourself. The worldwide radar data can pick up part of the height of dense forest or large buildings, so such points may read a little high.
Press Use my location and allow your browser to share its position. The tool reads your latitude and longitude, then looks up the ground height at that point. It works best on a phone outdoors. If you block access, you can still search for a place or type the coordinates.

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