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City Park

City Park from directly overhead

City Park is a park in Texas, at a recorded elevation of 9 m. Barbers Hill stands 25 m to the east-northeast, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is First Airplane Flight Over Texas, a historic site 0.5 miles away. Texas Independence Trail passes 2.8 miles off. 3 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
9 m

How to reach it

Coordinates29.66748, -95.22513

Named places within 25 miles

Gardens
Artworks
  • Healing Nature: 7.6 mi
  • Healing Nature: 7.6 mi
  • Round About: 7.7 mi
  • Doble Physichromic Modular: 7.7 mi
  • Orbit II: 7.8 mi
Museums: 49
Attractions: 26
Picnic sites: 11
  • JP Morgan Chase Bench Area: 10.0 mi
  • Beverly and Staman Ogilvie Seating Area: 10.0 mi
  • CenterPoint Energy Seating Areas: 10.0 mi
  • Sarofim Picnic Lawn: 10.1 mi
  • Lake Picnic Area: 10.5 mi
Peaks: 3
  • Blackwell Peninsula: 12.9 mi
  • Mesquite Knoll: 17.7 mi
  • Barbers Hill: 23.3 mi
Cliffs: 3
Springs: 2
  • Beauchamp Spring: 11.9 mi
  • Riordan's Spring: 12.4 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of City Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Barbers HillENE 57°25 m23.3 mi
Blackwell PeninsulaENE 75°3 m12.9 mi
Mesquite KnollE 91°0 m17.7 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2619:0119:33
June solstice06:2219:5020:25
September equinox07:1018:4719:19
December solstice07:1316:5117:27

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–May.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F555965717883858581736357
Precip in4.12.93.34.15.46.14.65.45.85.83.94.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Houston William P Hobby AP, 4 mi away.

  • Monarch16 obs
  • straggler daisy15 obs
  • Gulf Fritillary12 obs
  • Great-tailed Grackle10 obs
  • Pinkladies10 obs
  • Giant leaf-footed bug10 obs
  • Green Treefrog10 obs
  • Rough Earthsnake9 obs

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

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/670586806

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