Santa Maria Beach
Santa Maria Beach is a beach in California, at a recorded elevation of 3 m. Mount Tamalpais East Peak stands 784 m to the east-southeast, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Sculptured Beach, a beach 0.6 miles away.
The story
beach in Marin County, California, United States
Wikidata Q49324632, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Mount Wittenberg: 2.4 mi
- Firtop: 4.5 mi
- Point Reyes Hill: 4.5 mi
- Mount Vision: 5.2 mi
- Black Mountain: 6.6 mi
- Limatour Estero Reserve: 3.4 mi
- Point Reyes Station Community Park: 4.5 mi
- Martinelli Park: 5.6 mi
- Second Valley Path and Open Space: 6.0 mi
- Tomales Bay State Park: 7.8 mi
- Point Reyes National Seashore: 3.9 mi
- Tomales Bay Ecological Reserve: 5.1 mi
- French Ranch Open Space Preserve: 9.9 mi
- Gary Giacomini Open Space Preserve: 10.0 mi
- Maurice Thorner Memorial Open Space Preserve: 10.1 mi
- Sculptured Beach: 0.6 mi
- Secret Beach: 0.8 mi
- Limantour Beach: 1.6 mi
- Kelham Beach: 2.2 mi
- Sunshine Beach: 4.2 mi
- Kule Loklo: 3.5 mi
- Point Reyes Shipwrecks: 5.7 mi
- Cypress Tree Tunnel: 7.4 mi
- Leo T. Cronin Fish Viewing Area: 7.9 mi
- Tule Elk Reserve, Pierce Pt., Pt. Reyes NS: 13.1 mi
- The Jack Mason Museum of West Marin History: 5.7 mi
- Historic USCG Boathouse: 6.7 mi
- The Phoenix Collection Tea Museum: 8.3 mi
- Bolinas Museum: 11.7 mi
- Marin Museum of Bicycling: 14.5 mi
- Tamalpais Maiden: 18.6 mi
- Down the Rabbit Hole: 19.0 mi
- Plug: 19.2 mi
- Welcome to Petaluma: 19.6 mi
- Sonoma: 19.6 mi
- Bear Valley Picnic area: 3.5 mi
- Redwood Grove Group Picnic Area: 6.6 mi
- Azalea Picnic Area: 6.7 mi
- Irving Group Picnic Area: 7.1 mi
- Hunt Camp: 9.8 mi
- San Geronimo Valley Community Garden: 10.5 mi
- Indian Valley Organic Farm and Garden: 15.2 mi
- TRACEN Community Gardens: 16.5 mi
- Terra Linda Community Garden: 16.6 mi
- Miller Creek Middle School Community Garden: 16.6 mi
- Alamere Falls: 5.7 mi
- Stairstep Falls: 7.3 mi
- Roy's Riffles: 10.4 mi
- Little Carson Falls: 11.8 mi
- Cascade Falls: 12.8 mi
- Crystal Springs: 7.4 mi
- Broko Spring: 13.2 mi
- Rock Springs: 15.0 mi
- Red Rock Spring: 15.0 mi
- Colier Spring: 15.3 mi
- Point Reyes Light Station: 9.1 mi
- Paint Storage: 9.2 mi
- Point Reyes Lighthouse Visitor Center: 9.2 mi
- Transformer Building: 9.3 mi
- Power House: 9.3 mi
- Keyhole: 3.1 mi
- Temple: 3.6 mi
- Bird Island Arch: 21.7 mi
- Arch Rock: 23.1 mi
- Vent 5: 16.0 mi
- Rock Fort: 16.1 mi
- Tomales Bluff: 17.3 mi
- Yellow Bluff: 24.2 mi
- Steep Ravine Hot Spring: 15.1 mi
- Winehaven: 24.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 18.6 miles of Santa Maria Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Tamalpais East Peak | ESE 112° | 784 m | 16.2 mi |
| Mount Tamalpais West Peak | ESE 114° | 778 m | 15.3 mi |
| Mount Tamalpais Middle Peak | ESE 113° | 744 m | 15.7 mi |
| Ballou Point | ESE 120° | 612 m | 14.4 mi |
| Twin Knolls | ESE 118° | 597 m | 13.8 mi |
| Big Rock Ridge | ENE 77° | 575 m | 13.9 mi |
| Pine Mountain | ESE 103° | 543 m | 11.3 mi |
| Mount Tamalpais West Point | ESE 116° | 527 m | 15.7 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 | 19:59 | 20:38 |
| September equinox | 07:00 | 18:35 | 19:10 |
| December solstice | 07:25 | 16:15 | 16:56 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 50 | 53 | 55 | 58 | 61 | 66 | 68 | 68 | 68 | 63 | 55 | 50 |
| Precip in | 7.1 | 6.9 | 4.4 | 2.0 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 1.5 | 3.5 | 7.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — SAN Rafael-civic CTR, 17 mi away.
Mean tidal range 3.91 ft at the nearest NOAA station.
NOAA CO-OPS station Point Reyes, CA, 7 miaway — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358832693
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