Central Beach

Central Beach is a beach in California, at a recorded elevation of 4 m. Lyons Peak stands 1,139 m to the east, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Coronado Beach, a beach 0.1 miles away. 50 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
beach in San Diego County, California, United States
Wikidata Q49320336, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 4 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- L C Bandel Park: 0.3 mi
- Star Park: 0.3 mi
- Sunset Park: 0.4 mi
- Rotary Park: 0.4 mi
- Sunset Park: 0.7 mi
- Coronado Historical Association: 0.4 mi
- Ice House Museum: 0.6 mi
- San Diego Police Museum: 2.1 mi
- San Diego Police Department Exhibit & Jail Cells: 2.1 mi
- USS Midway Museum: 2.2 mi
- Site of First Military Flight School: 0.4 mi
- El Camino Real Bell: 0.4 mi
- Vietnam Unit Memorial Monument: 1.7 mi
- Memorial to Merchant Seamen: 1.9 mi
- National Salute to Bob Hope and the Military: 2.1 mi
- Morning: 1.9 mi
- Flame of Friendship: 2.0 mi
- Riparium: 2.1 mi
- Waltzing Matilda: 2.1 mi
- Hand Drawn Sculpture: 2.2 mi
- Mistletoe: 1.9 mi
- San Diego Convention Center: 2.1 mi
- Sign Welcome to Gaslamp Quarter: 2.2 mi
- Star of India: 2.6 mi
- Californian: 2.6 mi
- Marston Point: 3.4 mi
- La Jolla Mesa: 10.8 mi
- Soledad Mountain: 11.4 mi
- Gobblers Knob: 11.4 mi
- Spooners Mesa: 11.5 mi
- The Garden: 0.6 mi
- The Chuang Garden: 2.3 mi
- Phil Swing Memorial Garden: 2.7 mi
- Grand Marina Garden: 3.1 mi
- Kate O. Sessions Cactus Garden: 3.6 mi
- Coronado Beach: 0.1 mi
- North Beach: 0.3 mi
- North Beach: 0.5 mi
- Coronado Shores Beach: 0.9 mi
- Breakers Beach: 1.4 mi
- Silver Strand Natural Preserve: 5.6 mi
- Northern Wildlife Preserve: 7.8 mi
- Kendall-Frost Mission Bay Marsh Reserve: 7.9 mi
- Adobe Falls Ecological Reserve: 9.4 mi
- Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve: 9.6 mi
- Point Loma: 3.4 mi
- Sunset Cliffs: 4.5 mi
- Sunset Cliffs: 4.6 mi
- Sunset Cliffs: 5.0 mi
- Swordfish Point: 5.0 mi
- Dog Spring: 12.6 mi
- Sweetwater Spring: 12.9 mi
- La Honda Spring: 17.7 mi
- Hubbard Spring: 21.9 mi
- Echo Spring: 24.7 mi
- Africa Rocks Waterfall: 4.2 mi
- Lower Adobe Falls: 9.4 mi
- Adobe Falls: 9.5 mi
- Los Penasquitos Waterfall: 16.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Central Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lyons Peak | E 87° | 1,139 m | 24.6 mi |
| Otay Mountain | ESE 107° | 1,067 m | 20.9 mi |
| Sycuan Peak | ENE 78° | 840 m | 22.7 mi |
| Iron Mountain | NE 34° | 818 m | 23.9 mi |
| Middle Summit | NNE 33° | 790 m | 24.7 mi |
| San Miguel Mountain | E 87° | 782 m | 14.6 mi |
| Mount Ellie | NNE 32° | 743.712 m | 24.7 mi |
| Wildwood Mountain | NE 35° | 725.424 m | 24.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:53 | 18:28 | 19:01 |
| June solstice | 05:42 | 19:24 | 20:00 |
| September equinox | 06:38 | 18:14 | 18:47 |
| December solstice | 06:48 | 16:10 | 16:48 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: year-round.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 58 | 58 | 60 | 62 | 64 | 66 | 70 | 72 | 71 | 67 | 62 | 57 |
| Precip in | 1.7 | 1.9 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 1.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — N IS NAS, 1 mi away.
Mean tidal range 4.05 ft at the nearest NOAA station.
NOAA CO-OPS station SAN DIEGO (Broadway), CA, 2 miaway — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358845839
Day trips start here
- Chula Vista · 9 mi
- La Mesa · 11 mi
- El Cajon · 15 mi
- Poway · 21 mi
- Encinitas · 25 mi
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