Shell Beach
Shell Beach is a beach in California, at a recorded elevation of 8 m. Mount Tamalpais East Peak stands 784 m to the southeast, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Teachers Beach, a beach 0.3 miles away.
The story
beach in Marin County, California, USA
Wikidata Q49324712, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 8 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Tomales Bay State Park: 1.0 mi
- Second Valley Path and Open Space: 1.3 mi
- Marconi Conference Center State Historic Park: 1.9 mi
- Marconi Conference Center & Historic Park: 1.9 mi
- Martinelli Park: 1.9 mi
- Mount Vision: 2.0 mi
- Point Reyes Hill: 2.6 mi
- Walker Peak: 3.9 mi
- Three Peaks: 4.2 mi
- Echo Rock: 4.3 mi
- Tomales Bay Ecological Reserve: 3.1 mi
- Point Reyes National Seashore: 3.5 mi
- French Ranch Open Space Preserve: 12.9 mi
- Maurice Thorner Memorial Open Space Preserve: 13.2 mi
- Roy's Redwoods Open Space Preserve: 13.4 mi
- Down the Rabbit Hole: 15.0 mi
- Plug: 15.2 mi
- Welcome to Petaluma: 16.1 mi
- Sonoma: 16.1 mi
- Whale Ballet (Totem 6 of 8): 16.5 mi
- Teachers Beach: 0.3 mi
- Chicken Ranch Beach: 0.7 mi
- Heart's Desire Beach: 1.4 mi
- Alan Sieroty Beach: 1.6 mi
- Indian Beach: 1.8 mi
- TRACEN Community Gardens: 10.1 mi
- San Geronimo Valley Community Garden: 13.6 mi
- McNear Community Gardens: 14.9 mi
- Indian Valley Organic Farm and Garden: 16.0 mi
- Food Forest: 17.2 mi
- The Jack Mason Museum of West Marin History: 1.8 mi
- Historic USCG Boathouse: 10.1 mi
- The Phoenix Collection Tea Museum: 11.9 mi
- Marin Museum of the American Indian: 14.8 mi
- Petaluma Historical Museum and Library: 15.0 mi
- Point Reyes Shipwrecks: 1.9 mi
- Cypress Tree Tunnel: 4.2 mi
- Kule Loklo: 6.3 mi
- Tule Elk Reserve, Pierce Pt., Pt. Reyes NS: 6.5 mi
- Leo T. Cronin Fish Viewing Area: 11.9 mi
- Bear Valley Picnic area: 6.7 mi
- Redwood Grove Group Picnic Area: 10.3 mi
- Azalea Picnic Area: 10.3 mi
- Irving Group Picnic Area: 10.8 mi
- Helen Putnam: 13.2 mi
- Stairstep Falls: 10.1 mi
- Alamere Falls: 12.3 mi
- Roy's Riffles: 13.6 mi
- Buck Gulch Falls: 15.9 mi
- Little Carson Falls: 16.1 mi
- Crystal Springs: 11.1 mi
- Broko Spring: 18.2 mi
- Worn Springs: 19.4 mi
- Colier Spring: 20.0 mi
- Rock Springs: 20.2 mi
- Point Reyes Light Station: 11.4 mi
- Paint Storage: 11.5 mi
- Point Reyes Lighthouse Visitor Center: 11.5 mi
- Transformer Building: 11.7 mi
- Power House: 11.7 mi
- Tomales Bluff: 10.7 mi
- Rock Fort: 19.2 mi
- Vent 5: 21.7 mi
- Keyhole: 9.8 mi
- Temple: 10.2 mi
- Steep Ravine Hot Spring: 20.7 mi
- Wingo: 24.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.7 miles of Shell Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Tamalpais East Peak | SE 129° | 784 m | 20.7 mi |
| Mount Tamalpais West Peak | SE 131° | 778 m | 20.2 mi |
| Mount Tamalpais Middle Peak | SE 130° | 744 m | 20.4 mi |
| Ballou Point | SE 136° | 612 m | 19.7 mi |
| Twin Knolls | SE 136° | 597 m | 19.0 mi |
| Big Rock Ridge | ESE 105° | 575 m | 15.2 mi |
| Pine Mountain | SE 129° | 543 m | 15.5 mi |
| Mount Tamalpais West Point | SE 132° | 527 m | 20.6 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 | 20:39 |
| September equinox | 07:00 | 18:35 | 19:10 |
| December solstice | 07:25 | 16:14 | 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 | 48 | 51 | 53 | 56 | 60 | 64 | 67 | 67 | 67 | 62 | 54 | 48 |
| Precip in | 4.8 | 5.2 | 3.3 | 1.7 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 1.3 | 2.7 | 5.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Petaluma AP, 17 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Inverness, Tomales Bay, CA, under a mileaway — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/231640754
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