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SoFA Demonstration Garden

SoFA Demonstration Garden from directly overhead

SoFA Demonstration Garden is a garden in California, at a modelled elevation of 29 m. Observatory Peak stands 1,298 m to the east, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Huipil of Love and Home, a artwork less than a tenth of a mile away.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
San Jose Downtown Association & Veggielution
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates37.32808, -121.88423
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Artworks
  • Huipil of Love and Home: 0.0 mi
  • Braided Full of Sunshine: 0.0 mi
  • One Thousand Generations: 0.0 mi
  • Future Leader: 0.0 mi
  • Coins at Crossroads, Cucumber Seeds, Me Too: 0.0 mi
Museums
Parks
Historic sites
Attractions
  • Monopoly in the Park: 0.5 mi
  • Dragon Flyers: 1.1 mi
  • Danny the Dragon Train: 1.1 mi
  • Pacific Fruit Express: 1.1 mi
  • Kiddie Swings: 1.1 mi
Gardens
Picnic sites
  • Danny's Place: 1.1 mi
  • Chimes and Bells: 1.1 mi
  • Silly Celebration: 1.1 mi
  • Whistling Woods: 1.1 mi
  • Sunflower Circle: 1.1 mi
Peaks
  • Communications Hill: 3.0 mi
  • Eagle Rock: 6.0 mi
  • Lone Hill: 6.1 mi
  • Alum Rock: 6.7 mi
  • Boccardo Peak: 6.8 mi
Nature reserves
Springs: 27
Waterfalls: 26
Ghost towns: 12
Beaches: 9
  • Niles beach: 18.5 mi
  • Del Valle West Beach: 20.2 mi
  • Del Valle East Beach: 20.4 mi
  • Cable Car Beach: 22.6 mi
  • Shadow Cliffs Beach: 23.8 mi
Cliffs: 8
  • Graffiti Rock: 11.0 mi
  • Lyme Disease Rock: 13.4 mi
  • Underworld Rock: 13.7 mi
  • The Bluff: 14.0 mi
  • Del Valle Cliffs: 21.9 mi
Covered bridges: 2
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 13.9 miles of SoFA Demonstration Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Observatory PeakE 86°1,298 m13.3 mi
Tycho Brahe PeakE 86°1,286 m13.5 mi
Mount HamiltonE 86°1,279 m13.3 mi
Huyghens PeakE 86°1,276 m13.4 mi
Galileo PeakE 83°1,273 m13.8 mi
Ptolemy PeakE 87°1,237 m13.2 mi
Black MountainNE 53°1,169 m12.6 mi
Mount DayENE 57°1,163 m11.9 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1218:4519:20
June solstice05:4819:5320:32
September equinox06:5618:3219:06
December solstice07:1916:1316:54

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: year-round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F515457606469717170645651
Precip in3.03.22.61.20.50.20.00.00.10.81.43.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — SAN Jose, 3 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Eastern Fox Squirrel566 obs
  • California Ground Squirrel452 obs
  • Black Phoebe313 obs
  • Western Honey Bee290 obs
  • Canada Goose269 obs
  • Dark-eyed Junco255 obs
  • coast live oak234 obs
  • American Crow226 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1043526458

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