Moran Lake Beach
Moran Lake Beach is a beach in California, at a modelled elevation of 7 m. Loma Prieta stands 1,154 m to the northeast, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Moran Lake County Park, a park 0.2 miles away. Big Sur Coast Highway - Route 1 passes 26 miles off.
How to reach it
- 25.6 mi off the Big Sur Coast Highway - Route 1, National
Overlooks nearby
- 1 Shepherd's Knoll · 26 mi
- Rumsien Overlook · 30 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Moran Lake County Park: 0.2 mi
- Pleasure Point Park: 0.4 mi
- Santa Cruz holding 8: 0.4 mi
- Corcoran Lagoon Coastal Access: 0.4 mi
- Pleasure Point Beach County Park: 0.6 mi
- Night Fighter: 0.4 mi
- Surfer Memorial Statue: 2.6 mi
- Santa Cruz Hostel: 2.6 mi
- Branciforte: 2.6 mi
- Bear Enclosure: 2.8 mi
- Totem Pole: 0.4 mi
- Otter Touching Its Tail: 1.3 mi
- Great Blue Heron Walkway: 1.5 mi
- Life-size Gray Whale Sculpture: 1.8 mi
- Stone Spire: 2.1 mi
- El Dorado Riparian Corridor: 1.1 mi
- Whitewater Cove Riparian Corridor: 1.2 mi
- Twin Lakes State Beach: 1.3 mi
- Arana Gulch: 1.9 mi
- Jessie Street Marsh: 2.2 mi
- Capitola Wharf: 1.7 mi
- Capitola Wharf: 1.7 mi
- Giant Dipper: 2.1 mi
- Looff Carousel: 2.2 mi
- Undertow: 2.3 mi
- Aloha Terrace: 2.4 mi
- Special Events Ramada: 2.9 mi
- Cathedral: 3.2 mi
- Twisted Tree: 3.2 mi
- Lone Tree: 3.2 mi
- Bolcoff Hill: 2.8 mi
- Prospect Hill: 3.6 mi
- La Corona: 3.6 mi
- Horseback Hill: 3.9 mi
- Mount Massiah: 4.7 mi
- Santa Maria's Beach: 0.5 mi
- Sunny Cove Beach: 0.7 mi
- 38th Avenue Coastal Access: 0.7 mi
- Black's Beach/Lincoln Beach: 0.9 mi
- Private's Beach: 1.2 mi
- Beach Flats Community Garden: 2.3 mi
- Santa Cruz Community Orchard: 2.4 mi
- Riverside Gardens Community Garden: 2.5 mi
- afe native plant garden: 2.5 mi
- AFE Salamander Garden: 2.5 mi
- Moose Lodge Falls: 5.4 mi
- Fairy Falls: 7.7 mi
- Maple Falls: 7.9 mi
- Ferndell: 8.0 mi
- Five Finger Falls: 9.1 mi
- Dodero Spring: 4.3 mi
- Crystal Springs (private): 4.4 mi
- Horse Trough Spring: 4.9 mi
- Redwood Springs: 7.8 mi
- Olive Springs: 7.8 mi
- Capitola Bluffs: 2.1 mi
- Anthony's Bluff: 3.2 mi
- Chrystal Cliff: 3.2 mi
- Upper Quarry: 5.2 mi
- Upper Quarry: 5.3 mi
- Santa Cruz West Breakwater Light: 1.3 mi
- Santa Cruz Lighthouse: 2.7 mi
- Point Pinos Lighthouse: 22.4 mi
- Felton Covered Bridge: 8.3 mi
- Felton Covered Bridge: 8.3 mi
- Natural Bridges Rock Arch: 4.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 18.9 miles of Moran Lake Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Loma Prieta | NE 35° | 1,154 m | 13.0 mi |
| Crystal Peak | NE 36° | 1,097 m | 13.4 mi |
| Mount Umunhum | NNE 17° | 1,063 m | 14.8 mi |
| Mount Thayer | NNE 13° | 1,061 m | 14.7 mi |
| Mount Chual | NE 35° | 1,046 m | 13.8 mi |
| El Sombroso | NNE 14° | 917 m | 15.8 mi |
| The Peak | NNW 344° | 917 m | 18.9 mi |
| Sunnyvale Mountain | NNW 345° | 880 m | 18.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:12 | 18:46 | 19:20 |
| June solstice | 05:50 | 19:53 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:57 | 18:32 | 19:06 |
| December solstice | 07:18 | 16:15 | 16:55 |
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 | 52 | 53 | 55 | 58 | 60 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 65 | 62 | 56 | 51 |
| Precip in | 6.4 | 6.1 | 4.3 | 2.0 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 1.3 | 3.2 | 6.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Santa Cruz, 3 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Santa Cruz, Monterey Bay, CA, 2 miaway — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element relation/9415332
Day trips start here
- Capitola · 2 mi
- Santa Cruz · 3 mi
- Aptos · 4 mi
- Watsonville · 12 mi
- Moss Landing · 15 mi
- Marina · 21 mi
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