Sunshine Beach
Sunshine Beach is a beach in California, at a recorded elevation of 5 m. Mount Tamalpais East Peak stands 784 m to the east-southeast, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Golden Hinde landing, a historic site 0.8 miles away.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 5 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Limatour Estero Reserve: 0.8 mi
- Martinelli Park: 5.9 mi
- Second Valley Path and Open Space: 5.9 mi
- Tomales Bay State Park: 6.5 mi
- Point Reyes Station Community Park: 6.9 mi
- Point Reyes Hill: 4.4 mi
- Mount Vision: 4.7 mi
- Mount Wittenberg: 5.7 mi
- Firtop: 8.7 mi
- Black Mountain: 9.3 mi
- Point Reyes National Seashore: 3.1 mi
- Tomales Bay Ecological Reserve: 6.3 mi
- French Ranch Open Space Preserve: 13.9 mi
- Maurice Thorner Memorial Open Space Preserve: 14.1 mi
- Gary Giacomini Open Space Preserve: 14.1 mi
- Drakes Beach: 2.2 mi
- Limantour Beach: 2.6 mi
- North Beach: 4.0 mi
- Santa Maria Beach: 4.2 mi
- Point Reyes Beach: 4.2 mi
- Cypress Tree Tunnel: 4.2 mi
- Point Reyes Shipwrecks: 5.9 mi
- Kule Loklo: 6.7 mi
- Tule Elk Reserve, Pierce Pt., Pt. Reyes NS: 10.6 mi
- Leo T. Cronin Fish Viewing Area: 12.0 mi
- Bear Valley Picnic area: 6.9 mi
- Redwood Grove Group Picnic Area: 10.5 mi
- Azalea Picnic Area: 10.6 mi
- Irving Group Picnic Area: 11.1 mi
- Hunt Camp: 13.9 mi
- Historic USCG Boathouse: 3.8 mi
- The Jack Mason Museum of West Marin History: 5.8 mi
- The Phoenix Collection Tea Museum: 12.3 mi
- Bolinas Museum: 15.7 mi
- Marin Museum of the American Indian: 18.4 mi
- Alamere Falls: 9.6 mi
- Stairstep Falls: 11.1 mi
- Roy's Riffles: 14.4 mi
- Little Carson Falls: 16.0 mi
- Cascade Falls: 16.9 mi
- San Geronimo Valley Community Garden: 14.5 mi
- TRACEN Community Gardens: 16.4 mi
- Indian Valley Organic Farm and Garden: 18.8 mi
- McNear Community Gardens: 20.5 mi
- Miller Creek Middle School Community Garden: 20.5 mi
- Whale Ballet (Totem 6 of 8): 20.3 mi
- Down the Rabbit Hole: 20.7 mi
- Plug: 20.9 mi
- Scuba Brown: 21.1 mi
- Frolicking Dolphin: 21.3 mi
- Crystal Springs: 11.4 mi
- Broko Spring: 17.4 mi
- Red Rock Spring: 19.0 mi
- Rock Springs: 19.1 mi
- Colier Spring: 19.4 mi
- Point Reyes Light Station: 5.7 mi
- Paint Storage: 5.8 mi
- Point Reyes Lighthouse Visitor Center: 5.8 mi
- Transformer Building: 5.9 mi
- Power House: 6.0 mi
- Keyhole: 7.1 mi
- Temple: 7.6 mi
- Arch Rock: 23.4 mi
- Tomales Bluff: 14.6 mi
- Vent 5: 20.0 mi
- Rock Fort: 20.1 mi
- Steep Ravine Hot Spring: 19.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 22.4 miles of Sunshine 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 | 20.3 mi |
| Mount Tamalpais West Peak | ESE 113° | 778 m | 19.5 mi |
| Mount Tamalpais Middle Peak | ESE 112° | 744 m | 19.8 mi |
| Ballou Point | ESE 117° | 612 m | 18.5 mi |
| Twin Knolls | ESE 116° | 597 m | 17.9 mi |
| Big Rock Ridge | E 84° | 575 m | 17.6 mi |
| Pine Mountain | ESE 105° | 543 m | 15.4 mi |
| Mount Tamalpais West Point | ESE 114° | 527 m | 19.8 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 | 18:36 | 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, 21 mi away.
Mean tidal range 3.91 ft at the nearest NOAA station.
NOAA CO-OPS station Point Reyes, CA, 4 mi away — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/1361363117
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