Point Fermin Lighthouse
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Point Fermin Lighthouse is a lighthouse in California, at a recorded elevation of 50 m. Mount Orizaba stands 639 m to the south-southwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Point Fermin Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 passes 25 miles off. 24 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
Point Fermin Light is a lighthouse on Point Fermin in the San Pedro neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dates from 1874.
Wikidata Q7208023, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Built
- 1874
- Height
- 14.4 m
- Elevation
- 49.5 m
What to expect
How to reach it
- 24.8 mi off the Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110, National
Overlooks nearby
- Point Grandview · 26 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Fort MacArthur Museum: 0.5 mi
- Cabrillo Beach Bath House: 0.6 mi
- George F. Canyon Nature Center: 5.0 mi
- Banning Residence Museum: 6.2 mi
- Lomita Railroad Museum: 6.6 mi
- SS Lane Victory: 1.5 mi
- Battleship USS Iowa: 2.7 mi
- The Graben: 4.2 mi
- Wayfarers Chapel: 5.5 mi
- The Queen Mary Ship: 6.8 mi
- Sunken City: 0.3 mi
- Korean Friendship Bell: 0.3 mi
- Battery Farley: 0.4 mi
- Battery Leary: 0.4 mi
- Battery Osgood: 0.5 mi
- Point Fermin Park: 0.1 mi
- Lookout Point Park: 0.5 mi
- Wilder Annex Point Fermin Park: 0.6 mi
- Cabrillo Beach Park: 0.7 mi
- Alma Park: 1.4 mi
- Gaffey Street Community Gardens: 3.6 mi
- She-Oak Meadow: 6.0 mi
- South Coast Botanic Garden: 6.1 mi
- Desert Garden: 6.1 mi
- Pollination Garden: 6.2 mi
- Stephen M. White: 0.6 mi
- Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo: 0.6 mi
- Victory Arch: 1.7 mi
- Ghost Fish: 2.0 mi
- Jabob's Ladder: 2.5 mi
- White Point Nature Preserve: 1.5 mi
- Least Tern Site: 2.7 mi
- Ocean Trails Reserve: 3.2 mi
- Forrestal Reserve: 4.0 mi
- Portuguese Bend Reserve: 4.9 mi
- San Pedro Hill: 3.7 mi
- Ridgecrest Hill: 6.2 mi
- Signal Hill: 9.9 mi
- Landing Hill: 11.8 mi
- Blue Cavern Point: 20.7 mi
- Cabrillo Beach: 0.7 mi
- Royal Palms County Beach: 2.1 mi
- Long Beach City Beach: 8.3 mi
- Redondo Beach State Park: 10.2 mi
- Mother's Beach: 10.6 mi
- Day Camp: 9.7 mi
- Mother's Beach: 10.6 mi
- Lakeside Picnic Area: 12.4 mi
- Washington Park Picnic Area: 16.3 mi
- Common Grounds: 20.0 mi
- Washout Falls: 22.6 mi
- Frog Jump Falls: 22.6 mi
- Bear Claw Fall: 22.6 mi
- Schweitzer Falls: 22.7 mi
- San Pedro Escarpment: 2.3 mi
- Torqua Spring: 22.6 mi
- Spa Palace: 24.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Point Fermin Lighthouse. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Orizaba | SSW 198° | 639 m | 23.8 mi |
| Black Jack Mountain | SSW 196° | 596 m | 22.8 mi |
| Silver Peak | SW 223° | 550 m | 23.2 mi |
| Mount Banning | SSW 200° | 492 m | 24.5 mi |
| Fletcher | SSW 195° | 454 m | 21.7 mi |
| San Pedro Hill | NW 319° | 449 m | 3.7 mi |
| Slide 2 | SW 224° | 419 m | 23.7 mi |
| Mount Torquemada | SW 215° | 407 m | 22.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:32 | 19:05 |
| June solstice | 05:44 | 19:31 | 20:08 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:19 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 06:55 | 16:11 | 16:49 |
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 | 57 | 57 | 59 | 61 | 64 | 66 | 69 | 70 | 70 | 66 | 61 | 56 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 3.7 | 2.0 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 2.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Torrance AP, 7 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Cabrillo Beach, CA, 1 mi away — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
National Register of Historic Places, reference 72000234OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial site- National Register of Historic Places — Point Fermin Lighthouse, reference 72000234, listed 06/13/72.
OpenStreetMap element way/407334756
Day trips start here
- Long Beach · 10 mi
- Seal Beach · 11 mi
- Gardena · 13 mi
- Compton · 14 mi
- Lakewood · 14 mi
- Hawthorne · 15 mi
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