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Chinese American Historical Museum

Chinese American Historical Museum from directly overhead

Chinese American Historical Museum is a museum in California, at a modelled elevation of 35 m. Copernicus Peak stands 1,327 m to the east, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Portuguese Historical Museum, a museum less than a tenth of a mile away.

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Coordinates37.31974, -121.85820
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Museums
Parks
Attractions
Artworks
Picnic sites
  • Picnic Perch: 0.5 mi
  • Butterfly Garden: 0.5 mi
  • Sunflower Circle: 0.5 mi
  • Silly Celebration: 0.5 mi
  • Whistling Woods: 0.5 mi
Historic sites
Gardens
Peaks
Nature reserves
Springs: 32
Waterfalls: 24
  • Castle Rock Falls: 15.0 mi
  • Gerow's Waterfall: 16.4 mi
  • Lower Falls: 16.6 mi
  • Granuja Falls: 16.7 mi
  • Black Rock Falls: 16.7 mi
Ghost towns: 12
Beaches: 11
  • Niles beach: 19.6 mi
  • Del Valle West Beach: 20.0 mi
  • Del Valle East Beach: 20.2 mi
  • Cable Car Beach: 22.8 mi
  • Potbelly Beach: 24.0 mi
Cliffs: 8
  • Graffiti Rock: 12.2 mi
  • The Bluff: 13.9 mi
  • Lyme Disease Rock: 14.4 mi
  • Underworld Rock: 14.7 mi
  • Del Valle Cliffs: 22.0 mi
Covered bridges: 2
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 14.2 miles of Chinese American Historical Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Copernicus PeakE 81°1,327 m12.7 mi
Observatory PeakE 83°1,298 m11.9 mi
Hipparchus PeakE 82°1,295 m12.8 mi
Tycho Brahe PeakE 82°1,286 m12.2 mi
Mount HamiltonE 83°1,279 m11.9 mi
Huyghens PeakE 83°1,276 m12.1 mi
Mount IsabelE 88°1,275 m13.1 mi
Galileo PeakE 80°1,273 m12.5 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, 5 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element node/11282523160

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