Sunset State Beach
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Sunset State Beach is a beach in California, at a recorded elevation of 3 m. Loma Prieta stands 1,154 m to the north, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Lower Shade Ramada, a picnic site 0.6 miles away. Big Sur Coast Highway - Route 1 passes 20 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3 m
How to reach it
- 20.3 mi off the Big Sur Coast Highway - Route 1, National
Overlooks nearby
- 1 Shepherd's Knoll · 22 mi
- Rumsien Overlook · 25 mi
- China Lookout · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Tarplant Hill: 3.5 mi
- Bean Hill: 9.4 mi
- Mulligan Hill: 9.8 mi
- Atherton Peak: 10.7 mi
- Mount Chamberlain: 10.9 mi
- First High Altitude Aeroplane Flights: 4.5 mi
- Night Fighter: 9.0 mi
- Bridge Creek Historic Site: 11.4 mi
- Surfer Memorial Statue: 11.5 mi
- Santa Cruz Hostel: 11.8 mi
- Crystal Bay Farm: 1.9 mi
- Sea otters: 6.2 mi
- S. S. Palo Alto: 7.2 mi
- Capitola Wharf: 8.7 mi
- Giant artichoke: 9.7 mi
- Manresa State Beach - Soquel Creek Water District: 2.5 mi
- Manresa State Beach Access: 2.6 mi
- Struve Slough: 3.1 mi
- Place De Mer Park: 3.2 mi
- Seaview Ranch Park: 3.4 mi
- Compass: 3.7 mi
- Motorcycle from chains: 5.2 mi
- Motorcycle from license plates: 5.2 mi
- If it has no other explanation, it must be art: 6.7 mi
- Cabrillo Gallery: 8.6 mi
- Sunset Wetland Natural Preserve: 0.9 mi
- Manresa State Beach: 3.1 mi
- Pajaro River Mouth Natural Preserve: 3.1 mi
- Ellicott Slough National Wildlife Refuge: 3.4 mi
- Tarplant Hill: 3.5 mi
- Lower Shade Ramada: 0.6 mi
- Emmet Reed Picnic Area: 7.7 mi
- Pourroy Picnic Area: 8.0 mi
- Special Events Ramada: 8.4 mi
- George's Picnic Area: 8.8 mi
- Palm Beach: 1.5 mi
- Beer Can Beach: 5.4 mi
- Jetty Beach: 5.9 mi
- Island Beach: 6.3 mi
- Rio Del Mar Beach: 6.3 mi
- William H Volck Museum: 4.8 mi
- Pajaro Valley Historical Association: 4.9 mi
- Shakespeare Society of America: 6.7 mi
- Agricultural History Project Center and Museum: 7.0 mi
- Elkhorn Slough Reserve Visitor Center: 7.5 mi
- Bamboo Giant Nursery: 6.8 mi
- Tiger Lily Garden: 8.1 mi
- Roses of Yesterday: 9.5 mi
- Ksitigarbha Garden: 10.2 mi
- Beach Flats Community Garden: 11.5 mi
- El Pajaro Springs: 12.3 mi
- Olive Springs: 12.7 mi
- Crystal Springs (private): 13.4 mi
- Dodero Spring: 13.6 mi
- Badger Spring: 14.0 mi
- Fairy Falls: 10.4 mi
- Five Finger Falls: 11.3 mi
- Maple Falls: 11.5 mi
- Triple Falls: 13.3 mi
- Upper Falls: 13.4 mi
- Capitola Bluffs: 8.6 mi
- Chrystal Cliff: 12.5 mi
- Anthony's Bluff: 12.5 mi
- Upper Quarry: 14.5 mi
- Cavalry Bluff: 17.1 mi
- Santa Cruz West Breakwater Light: 10.6 mi
- Santa Cruz Lighthouse: 11.6 mi
- Point Pinos Lighthouse: 18.5 mi
- Natural Bridges Rock Arch: 13.1 mi
- Felton Covered Bridge: 17.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 21.4 miles of Sunset State Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Loma Prieta | N 358° | 1,154 m | 15.4 mi |
| Crystal Peak | N 359° | 1,097 m | 15.6 mi |
| Mount Umunhum | N 349° | 1,063 m | 19.2 mi |
| Mount Thayer | NNW 346° | 1,061 m | 19.6 mi |
| Mount Chual | N 360° | 1,046 m | 16.0 mi |
| Fremont Peak | ESE 116° | 966 m | 20.3 mi |
| El Sombroso | NNW 348° | 917 m | 20.5 mi |
| Ralph's Mountain | NNW 343° | 828 m | 19.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:12 | 18:45 | 19:19 |
| June solstice | 05:49 | 19:52 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:56 | 18:32 | 19:06 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 16:15 | 16:55 |
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 | 51 | 52 | 54 | 56 | 58 | 61 | 63 | 63 | 64 | 61 | 55 | 50 |
| Precip in | 4.6 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 2.1 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Watsonville Muni AP, 4 mi away.
Mean tidal range 3.73 ft at the nearest NOAA station.
NOAA CO-OPS station Elkhorn Slough railroad bridge, CA, 5 mi away — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358823356
Day trips start here
- Watsonville · 4 mi
- Moss Landing · 6 mi
- Aptos · 8 mi
- Capitola · 9 mi
- Santa Cruz · 12 mi
- Marina · 14 mi
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