What's your altitype?
Altitype™ explores how altitude shapes who you are. Enter some basic information to see how your altitude might be affecting you—and where to go (or avoid) when things don't quite feel right.
If you moved as a baby, use the place you spent your earliest years.
Where you spend most of your days, not where you vacation.
Your two heights
Bands are drawn equal height so every zone is readable. Real elevation is not to scale.
What is Altitype™?
Every place sits at a height, and every height shapes how people live there: how thick the air is, how far you can see, how crowded the streets are, how hard the land is to work. Altitype turns those differences into a way of reading yourself.
The idea is simple. The altitude you were born into leaves a mark, a baseline sense of what normal feels like. The altitude you live at now presses on that baseline every day. Put the two together and you get a lens for questions most of us carry: why one city felt like home and another never did, why you come alive on some trips and go flat on others, why you and the people you love sometimes seem to be breathing different air.
Like astrology or the Enneagram, Altitype is a symbolic framework, not a scientific measurement. It isn't meant to tell you who you are. It's meant to give you a new set of questions about who you've become, and where you might go next.
The six zones
How to read your result
Your birth zone is your altitype
It's the zone of the place that formed you: where you were born, or where you spent your earliest years. It's the part of you that doesn't move.
Your lived zone is your pressure
It's the zone you live in now. It shapes your days, rewards some of your instincts and strains others.
The gap tells the story
Same zone means native climate. One step apart is a mild shift. Two or more apart is a mismatch, which is worth understanding and easier to manage once you see it.
Want more?
Altitype will be explained further in a forthcoming book. Email to hear when it comes out, get the full chapter on your zone, or ask about talks and interviews.