Rockaway Beach
Rockaway Beach is a beach in California, at a recorded elevation of 3 m. Kings Mountain stands 637 m to the southeast, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Aramai Point, a cliff 0.3 miles away.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Liberty Garden: 0.6 mi
- Portola Expedition Historical Marker: 0.7 mi
- Coast Guard Site: 2.1 mi
- Ready Room: 2.1 mi
- Corridor & Maintenance Building: 2.1 mi
- Pacifica State Beach: 0.7 mi
- San Pedro Beach: 0.8 mi
- Devils Slide Beach: 3.1 mi
- Gray Whale Cove State Beach: 3.2 mi
- Montara State Beach: 4.2 mi
- Cattle Hill: 0.9 mi
- San Pedro Mountain: 2.5 mi
- Peak Mountain: 3.4 mi
- Montara Mountain North Peak: 3.5 mi
- Montara Knob: 3.7 mi
- Fairway Park: 1.1 mi
- Calera Creek Park: 1.2 mi
- Oddstad Park: 1.4 mi
- Sharp Park: 1.4 mi
- Palmetto Mini Park: 1.5 mi
- Sanchez Adobe Visitor Center: 1.5 mi
- Pacifica Coastside Museum: 1.8 mi
- Colma Historical Museum: 5.5 mi
- Millbrae Museum: 5.6 mi
- Louis A. Turpen Aviation Museum: 6.0 mi
- Pedro Point Headlands: 1.8 mi
- San Francisco State Fish and Game Refuge: 3.0 mi
- McNee Ranch State Park: 3.9 mi
- Fitzgerald Marine Reserve: 6.6 mi
- Spencer Lake Open Space: 7.0 mi
- San Pedro Valley County Park Picnic Area: 2.5 mi
- Creekside Picnic Area: 2.5 mi
- West Portal Playground Picnic Area: 9.3 mi
- Udo & Jürgen's place: 10.8 mi
- Picnic Area: 12.0 mi
- Evohelix: 4.8 mi
- Spirit of Millbrae: 5.6 mi
- Prometheus Gives Fire To Man: 5.9 mi
- Anemone: 6.0 mi
- Shell: 6.0 mi
- SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO THE INDUSTRIAL CITY: 5.7 mi
- Fitzgerald Marine Reserve: 5.9 mi
- Lover's Rock: 8.2 mi
- Black Rhino: 8.4 mi
- Bongo: 8.4 mi
- Gateway Garden: 6.4 mi
- Serenity Garden: 6.6 mi
- Lessing & Sears Community Garden: 7.2 mi
- Brisbane Community Garden: 7.3 mi
- Quarry Park Community Garden: 7.6 mi
- El Polín Spring: 12.9 mi
- El Polín Spring: 12.9 mi
- El Polín Spring: 13.0 mi
- Summit Spring: 16.5 mi
- Summit Spring: 16.5 mi
- Grey Fox Creek Fountain: 8.9 mi
- Huntington Falls: 11.1 mi
- Rainbow Falls: 11.3 mi
- Kent Falls: 19.5 mi
- Laurel Dell Falls: 22.9 mi
- Aramai Point: 0.3 mi
- Yellow Bluff: 15.7 mi
- Vent 5: 19.6 mi
- Chab: 21.9 mi
- East Slope Badlands: 22.2 mi
- Purissima: 14.9 mi
- Stokes Landing: 19.2 mi
- Lynn: 19.6 mi
- Russell City: 20.1 mi
- Winehaven: 24.0 mi
- Point Bonita Lighthouse: 14.3 mi
- Yerba Buena Island Lighthouse: 15.5 mi
- Quarters A: 15.6 mi
- Bird Island Arch: 15.0 mi
- Steep Ravine Hot Spring: 20.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.6 miles of Rockaway Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kings Mountain | SE 141° | 637 m | 15.0 mi |
| Bald Knob | SSE 149° | 637 m | 15.1 mi |
| Scarper Peak | SE 145° | 592.5 m | 6.8 mi |
| Montara Mountain North Peak | SSE 162° | 570 m | 3.5 mi |
| Peak Mountain | SSE 168° | 545 m | 3.4 mi |
| South Peak | SSE 165° | 545 m | 3.8 mi |
| Ox Hill | SE 146° | 542 m | 7.1 mi |
| Montara Knob | S 170° | 487 m | 3.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:14 | 18:48 | 19:22 |
| June solstice | 05:50 | 19:56 | 20:35 |
| September equinox | 06:59 | 18:34 | 19:08 |
| December solstice | 07:22 | 16:15 | 16:56 |
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 | 54 | 56 | 58 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 61 | 57 | 53 |
| Precip in | 6.1 | 6.5 | 4.4 | 2.4 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 1.5 | 2.9 | 6.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Pacifica 4 SSE, 2 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Seaplane Harbor, CA, 7 miaway — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/303682837
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