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Norfolk Botanical Garden

Norfolk Botanical Garden from directly overhead

Norfolk Botanical Garden is a garden in Virginia, at a modelled elevation of 4 m. Mount Trashmore stands 18 m to the southeast, 6.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Virgin and Child, a artwork 0.2 miles away. Colonial Parkway passes 28 miles off. 5 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates36.90620, -76.20074

Named places within 25 miles

Artworks
  • Virgin and Child: 0.2 mi
  • Raphael: 0.2 mi
  • DaVinci: 0.2 mi
  • Canova: 0.2 mi
  • Hunters Herons: 0.2 mi
Parks
Historic sites: 46
Gardens: 43
  • Living Legacy Grove: 0.5 mi
  • Peace Garden: 2.7 mi
  • Wilson Arboretum: 2.9 mi
  • Apiary Bee Hives: 4.5 mi
  • Rose Garden: 4.5 mi
Museums: 38
Attractions: 21
Nature reserves: 16
Beaches: 14
Cliffs: 6
Peaks: 5
  • Mount Trashmore: 6.7 mi
  • Encore Hill: 6.9 mi
  • White Hill: 9.7 mi
  • The Isaacs: 18.3 mi
  • Knob Hill: 21.7 mi
Picnic sites: 4
  • Picnic Shelter #3: 13.7 mi
  • Picnic Shelter #1: 13.7 mi
  • Picnic Benches: 21.3 mi
  • Picnic Benches: 21.3 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Norfolk Botanical Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount TrashmoreSE 141°18 m6.7 mi
White HillE 92°10 m9.7 mi
Knob HillWSW 249°8 m21.7 mi
The IsaacsNE 47°2 m18.3 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0918:4319:17
June solstice05:4719:5020:28
September equinox06:5318:2919:03
December solstice07:1516:1216:52

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Aug–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F424451606877817974645346
Precip in3.42.93.73.43.84.46.15.95.43.93.13.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Norfolk Intl AP, under a mile away.

  • Monarch113 obs
  • Pond Slider99 obs
  • Great Blue Heron77 obs
  • Black Swallowtail76 obs
  • American Bullfrog68 obs
  • Eastern Carpenter Bee55 obs
  • Common Buckeye47 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee46 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/196947670

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