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Centennial Park

Centennial Park from directly overhead

Centennial Park is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 22 m. Mount Allison stands 793 m to the southeast, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Cannery Water Tower Park, a park 0.2 miles away.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
22 m
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates37.66236, -122.09658
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Cannery Water Tower Park: 0.2 mi
  • Cannery Park: 0.3 mi
  • Kenneth Birchfield Memorial Park: 0.4 mi
  • Longwood Park: 0.7 mi
  • Heritage Plaza: 0.9 mi
Museums
Historic sites
  • Seven Year Sister City Anniversary (Hayward–Funabashi): 1.5 mi
  • Peace Sign: 2.5 mi
  • Flight 93 Memorial: 4.7 mi
  • Memorial to the Chinese Laborers: 5.1 mi
  • Veterans Memorial: 5.5 mi
Peaks
  • Maderia Hill: 1.8 mi
  • Vista Peak: 3.6 mi
  • Garin Peak: 3.6 mi
  • Gossip Rock: 6.1 mi
  • Turk Island: 6.2 mi
Picnic sites
Gardens
Attractions
  • iFLY Indoor Skydiving: 4.7 mi
  • Meyers Dry Creek Garden: 5.7 mi
  • Dunsmuir House and Gardens: 6.1 mi
  • Muntjac: 6.5 mi
  • Sika Deer: 6.5 mi
Artworks
Nature reserves
Beaches: 46
  • Niles beach: 7.7 mi
  • Sandy Beach: 8.6 mi
  • Encinal beach: 13.0 mi
  • Coyote Point Beach: 13.5 mi
  • Shadow Cliffs Beach: 13.9 mi
Springs: 23
  • Eugene Spring: 8.4 mi
  • Sulfur Spring: 16.0 mi
  • McClure Spring: 16.1 mi
  • Sheepherder Spring: 16.4 mi
  • Sulfur Spring: 16.5 mi
Ghost towns: 9
Cliffs: 9
  • Chab: 5.1 mi
  • The Devil's Shelf: 9.6 mi
  • Turtle Rock: 16.4 mi
  • Mitchell Rock: 19.4 mi
  • Del Valle Cliffs: 19.6 mi
Waterfalls: 6
Lighthouses: 2
Rest areas: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 17.3 miles of Centennial Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount AllisonSE 132°793 m16.7 mi
Monument Peak NorthwestSE 134°775 m17.3 mi
Mission PeakSE 131°761 m15.7 mi
Sunol PeakESE 107°664 m10.0 mi
Oyster PointNE 46°644 m16.7 mi
Cave PointNE 43°636 m17.0 mi
Rock 2N 10°617 m10.7 mi
Vollmer PeakNNW 336°581 m16.7 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1318:4619:21
June solstice05:4819:5520:34
September equinox06:5718:3219:07
December solstice07:2116:1316:54

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

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

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F515456586165666767645651
Precip in2.93.12.41.20.60.20.00.10.10.81.53.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hayward AIR Terminal, 1 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • miner's lettuce56 obs
  • Western Honey Bee42 obs
  • Common Pill Woodlouse41 obs
  • Noble False Widow32 obs
  • Wild Turkey28 obs
  • Anna's Hummingbird28 obs
  • coast live oak28 obs
  • California buckeye27 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/43985779

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