Needle Peak is an 8,971-foot-elevation (2,734 meter) mountain summit in Placer County, California, United States.

Needle Peak is located in the Granite Chief Wilderness on land managed by Tahoe National Forest.

It is situated one mile west of the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, with precipitation runoff from the peak draining north into headwaters of North Fork American River, and south into headwaters of Middle Fork American River.

Topographic relief is modest as the summit rises 2,980 feet (910 meters) above the Middle Fork in 1.5 mile.

As fronts approach, they are forced upward by the peaks (orographic lift), causing them to drop their moisture in the form of rain or snowfall onto the range.