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Free Elevation and Location Tools

29 free tools, no sign-up. Find the elevation of where you are, an address or any coordinates; see which county, ZIP code or district you are standing in; work out what altitude does to boiling water, baking, canning and the air you breathe; and map, profile or compare places. US results use USGS and U.S. Census Bureau data, and each tool lists its sources.

Elevation

Height above sea level for where you are, an address or any coordinates.

Where am I?

Coordinates, address, time zone and the Census areas you are standing in.

Altitude & atmosphere

What elevation does to boiling water, air pressure, oxygen, baking, canning and temperature.

Fitness & hiking

Climb from stairs and treadmills, and the summits closest to you.

Maps & math

Interactive elevation maps, route profiles, comparisons and trigonometry.

How each tool works

What each tool answers, where its numbers come from and who tends to use it. Every tool page has the full method, limitations and sources.

What is my elevation?

Answers how high above sea level you are standing. Your browser shares your position, and our server looks up the ground elevation there from the USGS Elevation Point Query Service (3D Elevation Program) in the US, or Terrain Tiles elsewhere. Travelers, hikers and anyone setting up a recipe or a barometer use it to get one trustworthy number.

Elevation by address

The U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder turns the address into coordinates, and USGS 3DEP gives the ground height at that point. A map pin lets you move to the roof, driveway or yard you mean. Homeowners use it for flood questions and elevation certificates, and buyers use it to compare houses on a hill.

Elevation from latitude and longitude

Paste decimal degrees, degrees-minutes-seconds or mixed formats and it parses each pair, then queries USGS for US points and Terrain Tiles for the rest. Bulk mode handles up to 100 rows and downloads a CSV. Surveyors, GIS students and anyone cleaning a spreadsheet of locations use the batch option.

What is my latitude and longitude?

Reads your position from the W3C Geolocation API in the browser and shows it three ways: decimal degrees, degrees-minutes-seconds and UTM, converted with the formulas in USGS Professional Paper 1395. It also reports the accuracy radius your device gives. People use it to send a precise location to a rescuer, a delivery driver or a geocaching log.

Find location by latitude and longitude

The reverse of a GPS readout: you supply coordinates and it pins them on a map, then fills in the nearest address from OpenStreetMap Nominatim, the county and ZIP area from the Census Geocoder, and the time zone from timezone-boundary-builder. Useful for checking where a photo, a sensor reading or a set of coordinates in an email actually is.

What is my address?

Your device position is reverse-geocoded to the closest street address with OpenStreetMap Nominatim, and Census data adds the county, state and ZIP Code Tabulation Area. If the guess lands on the wrong house, click the map to correct it. Handy when you are somewhere unfamiliar and need to give an address to a ride or an emergency call.

What time zone am I in?

Looks up your position in the timezone-boundary-builder boundary file, so it works even near a zone line where phone networks can guess wrong. It shows the current abbreviation, the UTC offset, a live clock and the next clock change, all from the IANA time zone rules. Remote workers and people driving across zone lines use it to schedule calls.

What county am I in?

Sends your coordinates to the Census Geocoder geographies service and draws the county boundary from TIGERweb. You get the county name, its FIPS code and land area. Voters, people filing taxes or permits, and anyone near a county line use it when the mailing address does not tell them.

What ZIP code am I in?

Finds the Census ZIP Code Tabulation Area that contains your point and maps it. ZCTAs approximate USPS ZIP delivery areas, so the page explains where they can differ and links the USPS lookup for mailing. It answers the quick "what ZIP do I put on this form" question when you are away from home.

What city am I in?

Checks your point against Census incorporated places and census designated places, then shows the city limits on a map. If you are outside any city it says the point is unincorporated, which a mailing address often hides. That matters for local taxes, police and fire jurisdiction, and city services.

What state am I in?

Identifies the state from Census geographies and shows its FIPS code, area, capital and highest point, the last from USGS Elevations and Distances in the United States. Most useful on road trips and near state lines.

What school district am I in?

Looks up elementary, secondary and unified school district boundaries from the Census Bureau, which come from its School District Review Program. It links each district to its NCES Common Core of Data profile. Families comparing homes use it before they rely on a listing's claim about schools.

What congressional district am I in?

Matches your point to the congressional district layer in Census TIGERweb and maps the district. It links to the House of Representatives lookup so you can reach your member. Voters check it after redistricting, when district lines can move without a change of address.

What township am I in?

Uses the Census county subdivision layer, which covers civil townships and New England towns. In states without functioning townships it explains what the subdivision at your point is instead. Residents of the Midwest and Northeast use it for township taxes, zoning and road maintenance questions.

Boiling point at elevation calculator

Takes the air pressure at your elevation from the 1976 U.S. Standard Atmosphere and solves the Antoine equation for water to find where vapor pressure matches it. A table runs from sea level to 14,000 ft. Cooks, candy makers and people sterilizing equipment use it, and it links to USDA guidance on high-altitude cooking.

Atmospheric pressure at elevation calculator

Gives standard-atmosphere pressure for an elevation, and also converts a weather report's sea-level pressure into the actual station pressure where you are, the step most barometer owners miss. Pilots, home weather station owners and anyone calibrating a pressure sensor use it.

Oxygen at altitude calculator

Air is 20.9% oxygen at any height, but there is less air per breath as pressure falls. This tool divides standard-atmosphere pressure at your elevation by sea-level pressure and shows the result as oxygen per breath and as an effective oxygen percentage, with US city comparisons. Travelers planning a trip to Denver or Cusco use it alongside the CDC's altitude illness guidance.

High-altitude baking calculator

Applies the adjustment tables from Colorado State University Extension and University of Arizona Cooperative Extension to a recipe: a hotter oven, a shorter bake, less baking powder and sugar, more liquid. Enter your elevation or let the tool look it up. Home bakers whose cakes fall or overflow after a move to the mountains are the main users.

Altitude for canning

Finds your elevation, then reads the USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning (2015) tables: which altitude column to follow for boiling-water processing times, and the pounds of pressure for dial and weighted-gauge canners. Underprocessing at altitude can leave home-canned food unsafe, so the result names the exact table column to use.

Temperature at altitude calculator

Starts from a temperature you know at one elevation and applies a lapse rate: the standard-atmosphere average of about 3.6 °F per 1,000 ft, or the dry adiabatic rate of about 5.4 °F per 1,000 ft for dry, well-mixed air. Hikers use it to pack for a summit, and drivers to judge whether a pass will be below freezing.

Steps to elevation calculator

Multiplies step count by a riser height you can set, and lists the code limits for reference: at most 7¾ in on home stairs (2021 International Residential Code) and 4 to 7 in on commercial stairs (2021 International Building Code). It also works in floors. Stair climbers and step-challenge participants use it to turn a fitness tracker's floor count into real height gained.

Treadmill elevation calculator

Treadmill incline is a percent grade (rise over run), and the belt distance is measured along the slope, so the tool converts grade to an angle before working out the height. It does that from distance or from speed and time, and shows feet, meters, building floors and the angle in degrees. Runners training indoors for a hilly race use it to match the climb.

Mountains near me

Searches the USGS Geographic Names Information System for named summits around your location and lists the nearest with their elevation, straight-line distance and compass direction on a USGS topo map. US only. Hikers looking for a nearby peak to climb, and anyone curious about the hill on the horizon, use it.

Elevation map

Each click on the USGS National Map topo base queries USGS 3DEP in the US or Terrain Tiles elsewhere, and drops a labelled pin. With several pins it shows the highest and lowest and the difference, and you can download a CSV or share a link. Good for scouting a building site, a campsite or a viewpoint before you go.

Elevation profile

Samples elevation at regular spacing along a line you draw or a GPX track you upload, then plots the profile with total ascent, total descent, high and low points and the steepest grade. Cyclists, trail runners and hikers use it to judge a route before committing to it.

Compare elevations

Looks up both places, from an address, coordinates or a named mountain with its published summit height, and puts the difference in feet and meters next to each place's boiling point, pressure and oxygen per breath. Useful when moving between cities or planning a trip from the coast to the mountains.

Radius map tool

You set a center and a radius in miles or kilometers, and the tool reports the residents, housing, towns, ZIP code areas and counties inside the circle from 2020 Census layers in TIGERweb, plus the highest and lowest ground. Export the circle as KML or PNG. Businesses sizing a delivery area and families comparing commutes use it.

Angle of elevation calculator

A right-triangle solver: enter two of angle, height and horizontal distance and it finds the third with tangent, sine or cosine, drawing the line of sight on a labelled diagram and showing every step. Students checking homework and people estimating the height of a tree or a building use it.

Angle of depression calculator

Uses the same trigonometry as the angle of elevation calculator but measures from the horizontal downward, as from a cliff, a lighthouse or a drone. It explains why the angle of depression equals the angle of elevation from the other end (alternate interior angles), which is where most textbook problems trip students up.

Elevation data by place

For a specific place rather than a tool, see elevation by state for cities and state high points, mountain elevations for summits, and themethodology page for how every number on this site is produced.