Seal Beach
Seal Beach is a beach in California, at a modelled elevation of 9 m. Sudden Peak stands 643 m to the south-southeast, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is SLC-10W Launch Shed, a museum 1.8 miles away. 17 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Access
- military
How to reach it
Overlooks nearby
- Lone Oak · 29 mi
- Concrete Turret · 29 mi
- Lover's Point · 29 mi
- Octopus Oak · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Radiosonde Launch Site: 3.1 mi
- Ocean Beach Park: 3.6 mi
- Cocheo Park: 4.6 mi
- Falcon Park: 8.8 mi
- Providence Landing Park: 9.2 mi
- Burton Mesa: 4.9 mi
- Lions Head: 9.1 mi
- Promontory: 9.3 mi
- Wild Horse Peak: 10.7 mi
- Mount Lospe: 10.9 mi
- SLC-10W Launch Shed: 1.8 mi
- Space and Missile Heritage Center: 1.9 mi
- Visitor Center: 5.8 mi
- Artesia Schoolhouse Museum: 11.4 mi
- Santa Barbara County Building;Lompoc Museum;Lompoc Museum Associates Research Library: 11.7 mi
- Area 7: 15.4 mi
- Area 8: 15.4 mi
- Area 6: 15.4 mi
- Area 3: 15.4 mi
- Area 4: 15.4 mi
- Independence: 21.6 mi
- Barbeque Flats: 23.1 mi
- ATV Safety Training Area: 23.2 mi
- Worm Valley: 23.3 mi
- Bitter Creek Western Railroad: 23.3 mi
- Wall Beach: 2.3 mi
- Minuteman Beach: 8.3 mi
- Trestle Beach: 8.9 mi
- Brown's Beach: 10.3 mi
- Point Sal Beach: 11.1 mi
- Operational Silo Test Facility: 6.4 mi
- Lompoc Valley Vietnam Veterans Memorial: 11.9 mi
- Church ruins: 12.0 mi
- Original Site of Mission de La Purísima Concepción de María Santísima: 12.0 mi
- Mission Water Basin Ruins: 12.0 mi
- Sulphur Spring: 15.2 mi
- Big Spring: 17.4 mi
- Las Animas Spring: 20.0 mi
- Willow Spring: 21.5 mi
- Los Flores Ranch Park: 16.7 mi
- Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes National Wildlife Refuge: 18.6 mi
- Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve: 20.0 mi
- Santa Maria Valley Sustainable Garden: 14.3 mi
- Santa Ynez Valley Botanic Garden: 24.9 mi
- Betteravia: 13.9 mi
- Espada Bluff: 15.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Seal Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sudden Peak | SSE 150° | 643 m | 13.7 mi |
| Tranquillon Mountain | SSE 162° | 628 m | 11.2 mi |
| Oak Mountain | SSE 152° | 612 m | 14.5 mi |
| Redrock Mountain | E 99° | 599 m | 20.5 mi |
| La Tinta Hill | SE 144° | 512 m | 13.3 mi |
| Mount Lospe | N 5° | 500 m | 10.9 mi |
| Wild Horse Peak | SSE 169° | 494 m | 10.7 mi |
| Santa Rosa Hills | ESE 121° | 488 m | 22.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:07 | 18:41 | 19:15 |
| June solstice | 05:50 | 19:42 | 20:20 |
| September equinox | 06:51 | 18:27 | 19:01 |
| December solstice | 07:07 | 16:17 | 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 | 54 | 55 | 57 | 58 | 60 | 62 | 64 | 65 | 65 | 63 | 58 | 53 |
| Precip in | 3.3 | 3.7 | 2.8 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 1.2 | 2.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lompoc, 11 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Point Arguello, 11 mi away — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/842676334
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