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Central Park

Central Park from directly overhead

Central Park is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 29 m. Mount Umunhum stands 1,063 m to the south-southeast, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Central Park Pavillion, a picnic site 0.1 miles away.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
29 m
Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
City of Santa Clara
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates37.34193, -121.97582
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Picnic sites
  • Central Park Pavillion: 0.1 mi
  • Braly Picnic #3: 2.9 mi
  • Braly Picnic #2: 2.9 mi
  • Braly Picnic #1: 2.9 mi
  • Picnic Grove: 3.5 mi
Parks
Artworks
Historic sites
Museums
Nature reserves
Gardens
Attractions
Peaks
  • Anza Knoll: 5.4 mi
  • Hunters Point: 5.7 mi
  • Maisie's Peak: 6.4 mi
  • Nob Hill: 6.4 mi
  • Communications Hill: 7.1 mi
Waterfalls: 26
Springs: 20
  • Congress Springs: 8.0 mi
  • Spring source: 10.4 mi
  • Cherry Springs: 11.1 mi
  • Travertine Springs: 11.5 mi
  • McClure Spring: 12.6 mi
Beaches: 17
  • Niles beach: 16.4 mi
  • Cable Car Beach: 22.0 mi
  • Del Valle West Beach: 22.5 mi
  • Del Valle East Beach: 22.6 mi
  • Tunitas Beach: 23.4 mi
Ghost towns: 14
Cliffs: 10
  • Graffiti Rock: 7.0 mi
  • Lyme Disease Rock: 10.2 mi
  • Underworld Rock: 10.5 mi
  • The Bluff: 16.3 mi
  • Del Valle Cliffs: 23.4 mi
Covered bridges: 2
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 14.3 miles of Central Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount UmunhumSSE 161°1,063 m13.2 mi
Mount ThayerSSE 166°1,061 m12.7 mi
Mount BielawskiSW 218°985 m10.4 mi
Castle RockSW 220°979 m10.3 mi
The PeakSSW 212°917 m10.0 mi
El SombrosoSSE 162°917 m11.8 mi
Lookout TowerSW 228°892 m9.9 mi
Goat RockSW 223°890 m10.7 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1218:4619:20
June solstice05:4819:5420:33
September equinox06:5618:3219:06
December solstice07:1916:1416:54

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
  • House Finch204 obs
  • Anna's Hummingbird200 obs
  • Monarch183 obs
  • American Crow177 obs
  • Western Honey Bee176 obs
  • Mallard173 obs
  • Mourning Dove172 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel171 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/37877930

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