Botanical Building
Botanical Building is a garden in California, at a modelled elevation of 87 m. Lyons Peak stands 1,139 m to the east, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Lily Pond, a attraction less than a tenth of a mile away.
What to expect
- Fee
- No
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Lily Pond: 0.0 mi
- Moreton Bay Fig Tree: 0.1 mi
- Spanish Village Art Center: 0.1 mi
- Balboa Park Miniature Railroad Station: 0.2 mi
- San Diego Zoo Miniature Railroad: 0.2 mi
- Timken Museum of Art: 0.0 mi
- San Diego Museum of Art: 0.1 mi
- Museum of Photographic Arts: 0.1 mi
- San Diego Model Railroad Museum: 0.1 mi
- San Diego History Center: 0.1 mi
- Odyssey III: 0.1 mi
- Solar Bird: 0.1 mi
- Mother and Daughter Seated: 0.1 mi
- The Prodigal Son: 0.1 mi
- The Watchers: 0.1 mi
- Ethno-botanic Garden: 0.4 mi
- Redwood Circle: 0.5 mi
- Sefton Plaza: 0.5 mi
- Marston Point: 0.7 mi
- Olive Street Park: 0.8 mi
- Kate Sessions: 0.5 mi
- AIDS Memorial: 0.8 mi
- Waldo Waterman Monument: 0.9 mi
- San Diego Gay Pride Monument: 1.1 mi
- Blackened Fish Taco: 1.2 mi
- Marston Point: 0.6 mi
- Cowles Mountain: 8.8 mi
- Kwaay Paay Peak: 8.9 mi
- South Fortuna Mountain: 8.9 mi
- Pyles Peak: 9.0 mi
- Zoro Garden: 0.1 mi
- May S. Marcy Sculpture Court & Garden: 0.1 mi
- Alcazar Garden: 0.2 mi
- Azalea Garden: 0.2 mi
- Japanese Friendship Garden: 0.2 mi
- Sunset Cliffs: 6.2 mi
- Sunset Cliffs: 6.3 mi
- Sunset Cliffs: 6.3 mi
- Sunset Cliffs: 6.3 mi
- Swordfish Point: 6.4 mi
- Spanish Landing Beach: 3.5 mi
- Central Beach: 4.0 mi
- North Beach: 4.0 mi
- Coronado Beach: 4.0 mi
- North Beach: 4.1 mi
- Adobe Falls Ecological Reserve: 5.6 mi
- Northern Wildlife Preserve: 6.2 mi
- Kendall-Frost Mission Bay Marsh Reserve: 6.3 mi
- Miramar Mounds National Natural Landmark: 8.0 mi
- Silver Strand Natural Preserve: 8.1 mi
- Dog Spring: 8.6 mi
- Sweetwater Spring: 10.4 mi
- La Honda Spring: 15.4 mi
- Hubbard Spring: 20.6 mi
- Rock Haven Spring: 21.0 mi
- Africa Rocks Waterfall: 0.4 mi
- Lower Adobe Falls: 5.6 mi
- Adobe Falls: 5.6 mi
- Los Penasquitos Waterfall: 13.5 mi
- Ridgetop Picnic Site: 23.9 mi
- Tree Lake Picnic Area No. 3: 24.2 mi
- Ray Love Picnic Area: 24.3 mi
- El Arroyo Picnic Area: 24.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 24.0 miles of Botanical Building. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lyons Peak | E 95° | 1,139 m | 22.5 mi |
| El Cajon Mountain | ENE 57° | 1,112 m | 22.9 mi |
| Otay Mountain | ESE 118° | 1,067 m | 20.1 mi |
| El Capitan | NE 55° | 1,026 m | 22.5 mi |
| Rock Mountain | NE 55° | 996 m | 24.0 mi |
| Silverdome II | NE 54° | 970.36 m | 21.8 mi |
| Woodson Mountain | NNE 28° | 878 m | 21.7 mi |
| Sycuan Peak | E 86° | 840 m | 20.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:53 | 18:28 | 19:01 |
| June solstice | 05:42 | 19:24 | 20:00 |
| September equinox | 06:38 | 18:14 | 18:47 |
| December solstice | 06:48 | 16:10 | 16:47 |
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 | 58 | 59 | 61 | 63 | 65 | 67 | 71 | 72 | 72 | 68 | 63 | 58 |
| Precip in | 2.0 | 2.2 | 1.5 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 1.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — SAN Diego Intl AP, 2 mi away.
- Western Fence Lizard1,710 obs
- Green Anole1,615 obs
- Eastern Fox Squirrel1,569 obs
- Monarch1,217 obs
- Mallard1,148 obs
- Western Honey Bee941 obs
- Black Phoebe812 obs
- Allen's Hummingbird711 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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