Driftwood Beach
Driftwood Beach is a beach in California, at a recorded elevation of 2 m. Sonoma Mountain stands 697 m to the east-northeast, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is McClures Beach, a beach 0.6 miles away.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Miller Park: 2.5 mi
- Tomales Community Park: 4.7 mi
- Marconi Conference Center State Historic Park: 5.9 mi
- Marconi Conference Center & Historic Park: 6.0 mi
- Tomales Bay State Park: 6.5 mi
- Whale Ballet (Totem 6 of 8): 9.2 mi
- Scuba Brown: 9.8 mi
- Frolicking Dolphin: 10.1 mi
- Poseidon: 10.1 mi
- Spawn: 10.2 mi
- Sugarloaf Hill: 3.1 mi
- Sugarloaf: 3.9 mi
- Walker Peak: 7.7 mi
- Coyote Peak: 7.8 mi
- Echo Rock: 8.0 mi
- McClures Beach: 0.6 mi
- White Gulch Beach: 1.1 mi
- Wall Beach: 1.4 mi
- Pelican North Beach: 1.7 mi
- Elk Fence North Beach: 2.2 mi
- For Fishermen Lost: 9.1 mi
- Probably repair location of Golden Hind June 1579: 9.8 mi
- CPO Academy Pergola: 10.1 mi
- Church of SaintTeresa ofAvila: 10.4 mi
- CPO Academy 1.5 mile turnaround: 10.7 mi
- Point Reyes National Seashore: 10.0 mi
- Tomales Bay Ecological Reserve: 10.5 mi
- Grove of the Old Trees: 14.1 mi
- Sonoma Coast State Park: 15.1 mi
- Monte Rio Redwoods Regional Park and Open Space Preserve: 17.0 mi
- TRACEN Community Gardens: 10.1 mi
- Inn at the Tides Sculpture Garden: 10.1 mi
- Ren Brown Gallery Zen Garden: 10.8 mi
- Ragle Ranch Peace Garden: 15.7 mi
- Food Forest: 17.1 mi
- The Jack Mason Museum of West Marin History: 9.2 mi
- Historic USCG Boathouse: 14.0 mi
- West County Museum: 16.1 mi
- Petaluma Historical Museum and Library: 17.9 mi
- Duncans Mills Depot Museum: 18.3 mi
- Tule Elk Reserve, Pierce Pt., Pt. Reyes NS: 1.0 mi
- Cypress Tree Tunnel: 7.2 mi
- Point Reyes Shipwrecks: 9.3 mi
- Whale Jaw Bone: 9.8 mi
- Whaling Artifacts: 10.0 mi
- Bear Valley Picnic area: 14.1 mi
- Oak Savanna Group Picnic Area: 15.8 mi
- Helen Putnam: 16.4 mi
- Campo Gianni: 16.5 mi
- Redwood Grove Group Picnic Area: 17.7 mi
- Point Reyes Light Station: 14.1 mi
- Paint Storage: 14.1 mi
- Point Reyes Lighthouse Visitor Center: 14.1 mi
- Power House: 14.2 mi
- Transformer Building: 14.2 mi
- Stairstep Falls: 17.3 mi
- Alamere Falls: 19.5 mi
- Roy's Riffles: 20.8 mi
- Buck Gulch Falls: 22.4 mi
- Little Carson Falls: 23.5 mi
- Tomales Bluff: 3.4 mi
- Goat Rock: 19.0 mi
- Osprey Rocks: 19.6 mi
- Keyhole: 16.9 mi
- Temple: 17.3 mi
- Arched Rock: 18.5 mi
- Crystal Springs: 18.5 mi
- Hunter Spring: 23.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 23.7 miles of Driftwood Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sonoma Mountain | ENE 68° | 697 m | 22.9 mi |
| Pole Mountain | NNW 339° | 672 m | 22.9 mi |
| Big Rock Ridge | ESE 116° | 575 m | 21.8 mi |
| Pine Mountain | SE 132° | 543 m | 22.8 mi |
| Loma Alta | ESE 122° | 484 m | 22.6 mi |
| Burdell Mountain | E 100° | 474 m | 20.7 mi |
| Hicks Mountain | ESE 110° | 467 m | 13.9 mi |
| Mount Jackson | N 1° | 449 m | 23.7 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 | 20:00 | 20:39 |
| September equinox | 07:00 | 18:36 | 19:10 |
| December solstice | 07:26 | 16:14 | 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, 10 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Tomales Bay entrance, CA, 2 mi away — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358764955
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