Elevation of Fairfield
14ft
above sea level · 4 m
Fairfield is a city in California with 122,489 people, the 51st most populous in the state. Of the 249 US cities with 100,000 to 250,000 people, it’s the 20th lowest.
By the Mapsfera Team
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Place facts
- Coordinates
- 38.25° N · 122.04° W
- In degrees, minutes and seconds: 38° 14′ 58″ N · 122° 2′ 24″ W
- UTM coordinates
- 10S · 584,003 E · 4,233,918 N
- Zone 10 · NAD83, the official US datum
- Time zone
- Pacific Time
- UTC−8 · UTC−7 in summer (daylight saving time)
- Population (2025)
- 122,489 people
- 41.6 sq mi of land · 2,945 people/sq mi
- Elevation model
- USGS 3DEP, 1 m grid
- Lidar from March 2018: the ground height at the city’s reference point.
Population
Fairfield had 122,489 residents on July 1, 2025, according to Census Bureau estimates, 2.1% more than in April 2020, when it had 119,917. Its 41.6 sq mi of land work out to 2,945 people/sq mi; the state average is 253 people/sq mi.
It’s the 51st most populous of the 1,617 places the Census counts in California (cities, towns and CDPs), after Los Angeles (3,869,089), and holds 0.3% of the state’s population.
It lies entirely within Solano County. Its reference point in the USGS gazetteer is 1.0 mi from the geographic center the Census gives for the city.
Compared with US cities of 100,000 to 250,000
Fairfield sits at 14 ft (4 m) above sea level. Of the 249 US cities with 100,000 to 250,000 people, the highest is Lakewood (5,520 ft) and the lowest is Fort Lauderdale (3 ft). The average is 862 ft: Fairfield is 848 ft below it.
The state capital, Sacramento, is 37 mi away in a straight line and 13 ft higher than Fairfield.
The nearest city with more than 250,000 people is Oakland, 33 mi away in a straight line and 28 ft higher.
Of the 75 cities in California with a page, Fairfield is the 2nd lowest: the highest is Hesperia (3,178 ft) and the lowest is Stockton (12 ft).
The highest point in California is Mount Whitney, at 14,494 ft according to the USGS: 14,480 ft above Fairfield, 236 mi away in a straight line.
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Frequently asked questions
What people most often ask about the elevation of Fairfield.
What is the elevation of Fairfield?
Fairfield is 14 feet (4 m) above sea level. That’s the ground height from the USGS 3DEP elevation model at the city’s reference point in the official gazetteer (GNIS). The city doesn’t have a single elevation: it rises and falls from one neighborhood to another.
What are the coordinates of Fairfield?
Latitude 38.24936 and longitude -122.03997, in decimal degrees (38° 14′ 58″ N · 122° 2′ 24″ W). In UTM, zone 10: 584,003 E and 4,233,918 N, on NAD83.
How does Fairfield rank among the highest US cities of its size?
It’s the 20th lowest of the 249 US cities with 100,000 to 250,000 people. The highest is Lakewood (5,520 ft) and the lowest is Fort Lauderdale (3 ft).
What county is Fairfield in?
Solano County, California.
Which is higher, Fairfield or Sacramento?
Sacramento. Fairfield sits at 14 ft and Sacramento at 27 ft: a difference of 13 ft, 37 mi apart in a straight line.
How is elevation measured?
Elevation is the height above mean sea level. In the US the official reference is the NAVD88 vertical datum. Summits are surveyed on the ground, with leveling and precise GPS. The USGS 3DEP is an elevation model of the whole country, largely from 1-meter lidar: it gives the ground height at every point. That’s why it can differ by a few feet from the official figure of a sharp summit.
Sources
- USGS 3DEP (EPQS service) The elevation: the ground height at the reference point. Public domain.
- USGS GNIS (official gazetteer) The city’s reference point (“Populated Place”). Public domain.
- U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 estimates Population, land area (2025 Gazetteer) and counties. Public domain.
- TIGERweb (U.S. Census Bureau) Which county and city the point falls in. Public domain.
- timezone-boundary-builder The point’s time zone (ODbL, © OpenStreetMap contributors).
- Terrain Tiles, OpenStreetMap and OpenFreeMap The relief shading and the base map (ODbL).
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