Santa Cruz Main Beach
Santa Cruz Main Beach is a beach in California, at a modelled elevation of 0 m. Loma Prieta stands 1,154 m to the northeast, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Undertow, a attraction 0.1 miles away. Big Sur Coast Highway - Route 1 passes 27 miles off.
How to reach it
- 26.7 mi off the Big Sur Coast Highway - Route 1, National
Overlooks nearby
- 1 Shepherd's Knoll · 27 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Undertow: 0.1 mi
- Looff Carousel: 0.1 mi
- Giant Dipper: 0.2 mi
- Stagnaro Fishing Charters & Whale Watching Cruises: 0.2 mi
- NOAA - Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary: 0.3 mi
- Aloha Terrace: 0.1 mi
- Buckeye Picnic Area: 1.7 mi
- Oak Picnic Area: 1.7 mi
- Wagner Grove: 1.8 mi
- Evergreen Picnic Area: 1.8 mi
- Raymond Street Park: 0.2 mi
- Poet's Park: 0.3 mi
- Dutra Overlook Park: 0.4 mi
- Riverside Gardens Park: 0.5 mi
- Mike Fox Park: 0.5 mi
- Tori Gate (Opening to the Sea): 0.3 mi
- Swimming Dolphins: 0.3 mi
- Fluke: 0.3 mi
- Before Now sculpture: 0.5 mi
- Stone Spire: 0.5 mi
- Santa Cruz Hostel: 0.3 mi
- Surfer Memorial Statue: 0.7 mi
- Soldiers & Sailors Statue: 1.0 mi
- Compass Rose Plaza: 1.1 mi
- Clock Tower: 1.1 mi
- Jessie Street Marsh: 0.5 mi
- Neary Lagoon Wildlife Refuge: 0.7 mi
- Twin Lakes State Beach: 1.0 mi
- El Dorado Riparian Corridor: 1.5 mi
- Arana Gulch: 1.5 mi
- Bolcoff Hill: 1.3 mi
- Horseback Hill: 1.8 mi
- Prospect Hill: 2.1 mi
- La Corona: 3.2 mi
- Mount Massiah: 5.0 mi
- Cowell Beach: 0.4 mi
- Seabright Beach: 0.6 mi
- Its Beach: 0.9 mi
- Harbor Beach: 1.0 mi
- Lighthouse Field State Beach: 1.0 mi
- Beach Flats Community Garden: 0.3 mi
- Santa Cruz Community Orchard: 0.4 mi
- Riverside Gardens Community Garden: 0.5 mi
- BSSC Garden: 1.3 mi
- AFE Salamander Garden: 1.3 mi
- Moose Lodge Falls: 4.4 mi
- Ferndell: 6.6 mi
- Maple Falls: 9.1 mi
- Fairy Falls: 9.1 mi
- Five Finger Falls: 10.5 mi
- Dodero Spring: 2.2 mi
- Horse Trough Spring: 3.1 mi
- Crystal Springs (private): 3.3 mi
- Redwood Springs: 6.4 mi
- Old Growth Spring: 7.7 mi
- Chrystal Cliff: 1.1 mi
- Anthony's Bluff: 1.2 mi
- Upper Quarry: 3.3 mi
- Upper Quarry: 3.3 mi
- Capitola Bluffs: 4.0 mi
- Santa Cruz West Breakwater Light: 0.9 mi
- Santa Cruz Lighthouse: 0.9 mi
- Point Pinos Lighthouse: 23.2 mi
- Felton Covered Bridge: 6.7 mi
- Felton Covered Bridge: 6.7 mi
- Natural Bridges Rock Arch: 2.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 18.8 miles of Santa Cruz Main Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Loma Prieta | NE 43° | 1,154 m | 14.0 mi |
| Crystal Peak | NE 44° | 1,097 m | 14.5 mi |
| Mount Umunhum | NNE 26° | 1,063 m | 15.2 mi |
| Mount Thayer | NNE 21° | 1,061 m | 14.9 mi |
| Mount Chual | NE 43° | 1,046 m | 14.8 mi |
| Mount Bielawski | NNW 347° | 985 m | 18.4 mi |
| El Sombroso | NNE 22° | 917 m | 16.0 mi |
| The Peak | N 351° | 917 m | 17.9 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 | 20:32 |
| September equinox | 06:57 | 18:32 | 19:07 |
| December solstice | 07:18 | 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 | 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, 2 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Santa Cruz, Monterey Bay, CA, under a mileaway — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element relation/7063036
Day trips start here
- Santa Cruz · 1 mi
- Capitola · 4 mi
- Aptos · 6 mi
- Watsonville · 14 mi
- Moss Landing · 17 mi
- Marina · 23 mi
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