Drakes Beach
Drakes Beach is a beach in California, at a recorded elevation of 4 m. Mount Tamalpais East Peak stands 784 m to the east-southeast, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Francis Drake memorial, a historic site 0.2 miles away.
Closed during elephant seal pupping season (ends April 27 in 2025).
The story
beach in Marin County, California, United States
Wikidata Q49320549, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 4 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Limatour Estero Reserve: 2.8 mi
- Second Valley Path and Open Space: 7.8 mi
- Martinelli Park: 7.9 mi
- Tomales Bay State Park: 7.9 mi
- Point Reyes Station Community Park: 9.0 mi
- Point Reyes Hill: 6.4 mi
- Mount Vision: 6.5 mi
- Mount Wittenberg: 7.8 mi
- Firtop: 10.5 mi
- Black Mountain: 11.4 mi
- Point Reyes National Seashore: 5.2 mi
- Tomales Bay Ecological Reserve: 8.3 mi
- French Ranch Open Space Preserve: 15.9 mi
- Gary Giacomini Open Space Preserve: 16.0 mi
- Maurice Thorner Memorial Open Space Preserve: 16.1 mi
- Sunshine Beach: 2.2 mi
- North Beach: 3.6 mi
- Point Reyes Beach: 4.0 mi
- South Beach: 4.4 mi
- Limantour Beach: 4.5 mi
- Francis Drake memorial: 0.2 mi
- Golden Hinde landing: 1.4 mi
- Francis Drake: 2.2 mi
- Point Reyes Lifeboat Station: 2.3 mi
- Probably repair location of Golden Hind June 1579: 3.3 mi
- Cypress Tree Tunnel: 4.8 mi
- Point Reyes Shipwrecks: 7.9 mi
- Kule Loklo: 8.8 mi
- Tule Elk Reserve, Pierce Pt., Pt. Reyes NS: 11.2 mi
- Leo T. Cronin Fish Viewing Area: 14.0 mi
- Historic USCG Boathouse: 2.3 mi
- The Jack Mason Museum of West Marin History: 7.8 mi
- The Phoenix Collection Tea Museum: 14.3 mi
- Bolinas Museum: 17.2 mi
- Marin Museum of Bicycling: 20.5 mi
- Bear Valley Picnic area: 9.0 mi
- Redwood Grove Group Picnic Area: 12.6 mi
- Azalea Picnic Area: 12.7 mi
- Irving Group Picnic Area: 13.1 mi
- Hunt Camp: 15.9 mi
- Alamere Falls: 11.0 mi
- Stairstep Falls: 13.2 mi
- Roy's Riffles: 16.4 mi
- Little Carson Falls: 17.8 mi
- Cascade Falls: 18.8 mi
- Whale Ballet (Totem 6 of 8): 20.3 mi
- Scuba Brown: 21.2 mi
- Frolicking Dolphin: 21.4 mi
- Poseidon: 21.4 mi
- Spawn: 21.5 mi
- San Geronimo Valley Community Garden: 16.5 mi
- TRACEN Community Gardens: 18.0 mi
- Indian Valley Organic Farm and Garden: 20.9 mi
- Inn at the Tides Sculpture Garden: 21.4 mi
- Ren Brown Gallery Zen Garden: 22.1 mi
- Crystal Springs: 13.4 mi
- Broko Spring: 19.1 mi
- Red Rock Spring: 20.5 mi
- Rock Springs: 20.7 mi
- Colier Spring: 21.2 mi
- Point Reyes Light Station: 3.6 mi
- Paint Storage: 3.7 mi
- Point Reyes Lighthouse Visitor Center: 3.7 mi
- Transformer Building: 3.8 mi
- Power House: 3.8 mi
- Keyhole: 8.7 mi
- Temple: 9.3 mi
- Arch Rock: 22.4 mi
- Tomales Bluff: 14.9 mi
- Vent 5: 21.4 mi
- Rock Fort: 22.1 mi
- Steep Ravine Hot Spring: 20.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 23.4 miles of Drakes Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Tamalpais East Peak | ESE 108° | 784 m | 22.1 mi |
| Mount Tamalpais West Peak | ESE 109° | 778 m | 21.2 mi |
| Mount Tamalpais Middle Peak | ESE 108° | 744 m | 21.5 mi |
| Ballou Point | ESE 113° | 612 m | 20.1 mi |
| Twin Knolls | ESE 112° | 597 m | 19.5 mi |
| Big Rock Ridge | E 83° | 575 m | 19.7 mi |
| Pine Mountain | E 101° | 543 m | 17.3 mi |
| Mount Tamalpais West Point | ESE 110° | 527 m | 21.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:16 | 18:49 | 19:24 |
| June solstice | 05:50 | 19:59 | 20:39 |
| September equinox | 07:00 | 18:36 | 19:10 |
| December solstice | 07:25 | 16:15 | 16:56 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jan–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 50 | 51 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 55 | 57 | 57 | 58 | 56 | 53 | 50 |
| Precip in | 5.3 | 6.0 | 3.9 | 2.2 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 1.8 | 2.9 | 4.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bodega 6 WSW, 21 mi away.
Mean tidal range 3.91 ft at the nearest NOAA station.
NOAA CO-OPS station Point Reyes, CA, 2 miaway — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/305499357
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