Sculptured Beach
Sculptured Beach is a beach in California, at a recorded elevation of 10 m. Mount Tamalpais East Peak stands 784 m to the east-southeast, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Secret Beach, a beach 0.2 miles away.
The story
Beach in Marin County, California, United States.
Wikidata Q49324661, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 10 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Mount Wittenberg: 2.4 mi
- Firtop: 3.9 mi
- Point Reyes Hill: 5.0 mi
- Mount Vision: 5.7 mi
- Black Mountain: 6.5 mi
- Limatour Estero Reserve: 3.9 mi
- Point Reyes Station Community Park: 4.5 mi
- Martinelli Park: 6.0 mi
- Second Valley Path and Open Space: 6.4 mi
- Tomales Bay State Park: 8.3 mi
- Point Reyes National Seashore: 4.5 mi
- Tomales Bay Ecological Reserve: 5.4 mi
- French Ranch Open Space Preserve: 9.5 mi
- Gary Giacomini Open Space Preserve: 9.5 mi
- Maurice Thorner Memorial Open Space Preserve: 9.6 mi
- Secret Beach: 0.2 mi
- Santa Maria Beach: 0.6 mi
- Kelham Beach: 1.6 mi
- Limantour Beach: 2.2 mi
- Wildcat Beach: 4.3 mi
- Tamalpais Maiden: 18.0 mi
- Down the Rabbit Hole: 19.0 mi
- Plug: 19.2 mi
- Sonoma: 19.5 mi
- Welcome to Petaluma: 19.5 mi
- Kule Loklo: 3.3 mi
- Point Reyes Shipwrecks: 6.0 mi
- Leo T. Cronin Fish Viewing Area: 7.4 mi
- Cypress Tree Tunnel: 8.0 mi
- Tule Elk Reserve, Pierce Pt., Pt. Reyes NS: 13.6 mi
- The Jack Mason Museum of West Marin History: 6.0 mi
- Historic USCG Boathouse: 7.1 mi
- The Phoenix Collection Tea Museum: 7.8 mi
- Bolinas Museum: 11.1 mi
- Marin Museum of Bicycling: 14.0 mi
- Bear Valley Picnic area: 3.3 mi
- Redwood Grove Group Picnic Area: 6.1 mi
- Azalea Picnic Area: 6.2 mi
- Irving Group Picnic Area: 6.7 mi
- Hunt Camp: 9.3 mi
- San Geronimo Valley Community Garden: 10.1 mi
- Indian Valley Organic Farm and Garden: 14.9 mi
- Terra Linda Community Garden: 16.1 mi
- Miller Creek Middle School Community Garden: 16.2 mi
- TRACEN Community Gardens: 16.7 mi
- Alamere Falls: 5.1 mi
- Stairstep Falls: 6.9 mi
- Roy's Riffles: 9.9 mi
- Little Carson Falls: 11.3 mi
- Cascade Falls: 12.2 mi
- Crystal Springs: 6.9 mi
- Broko Spring: 12.6 mi
- Rock Springs: 14.4 mi
- Red Rock Spring: 14.4 mi
- Colier Spring: 14.7 mi
- Point Reyes Light Station: 9.5 mi
- Paint Storage: 9.6 mi
- Point Reyes Lighthouse Visitor Center: 9.6 mi
- Transformer Building: 9.8 mi
- Power House: 9.8 mi
- Keyhole: 2.5 mi
- Temple: 3.0 mi
- Bird Island Arch: 21.1 mi
- Arch Rock: 22.9 mi
- Vent 5: 15.4 mi
- Rock Fort: 15.6 mi
- Tomales Bluff: 17.8 mi
- Yellow Bluff: 23.6 mi
- Steep Ravine Hot Spring: 14.4 mi
- Winehaven: 23.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 18.7 miles of Sculptured Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Tamalpais East Peak | ESE 111° | 784 m | 15.6 mi |
| Mount Tamalpais West Peak | ESE 114° | 778 m | 14.8 mi |
| Mount Tamalpais Middle Peak | ESE 112° | 744 m | 15.1 mi |
| Ballou Point | ESE 119° | 612 m | 13.8 mi |
| Twin Knolls | ESE 118° | 597 m | 13.2 mi |
| Big Rock Ridge | ENE 75° | 575 m | 13.5 mi |
| Pine Mountain | ESE 102° | 543 m | 10.7 mi |
| Mount Tamalpais West Point | ESE 115° | 527 m | 15.1 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 | 49 | 52 | 55 | 58 | 62 | 66 | 68 | 68 | 67 | 63 | 55 | 49 |
| Precip in | 8.8 | 8.7 | 6.0 | 2.6 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 2.0 | 4.6 | 9.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Kentfield, 17 mi away.
Mean tidal range 3.91 ft at the nearest NOAA station.
NOAA CO-OPS station Point Reyes, CA, 7 mi away — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/232399654
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