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Florida Botanical Garden

Florida Botanical Garden from directly overhead

Florida Botanical Garden is a park in Florida, at a modelled elevation of 14 m. Big Cockroach Mound stands 7 m to the southeast, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Ridgecrest Park, a park 0.1 miles away. COURTNEY CAMPBELL passes 8.1 miles off. 3 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates27.88343, -82.80843

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Ridgecrest Park: 0.1 mi
  • Ridgecrest Park: 0.6 mi
  • Walsingham Park: 0.7 mi
  • Taylor Park: 1.3 mi
  • Four Seasons Park: 1.9 mi
Historic sites
Artworks
Museums: 39
  • Indian Rocks Historical Museum: 2.5 mi
  • Clearwater Historical Society Museum and Cultural Center: 5.2 mi
  • The Collection On Palmetto Foundation: 7.3 mi
  • Tampa Bay Automobile Museum: 8.2 mi
  • Safety Harbor Museum & Cultural Center: 10.3 mi
Attractions: 25
  • Largo Central Railroad: 2.6 mi
  • Skyzone Trampoline Park: 4.8 mi
  • Sea Screamer Dolphin Tours: 6.5 mi
  • Little Toot: 6.5 mi
  • City of Pinellas Park F-16 Aircraft Monument: 6.8 mi
Beaches: 22
Nature reserves: 19
Gardens: 12
Springs: 6
  • Sage Spring: 14.8 mi
  • Health Spring: 15.6 mi
  • Palma Ceia Spring: 19.7 mi
  • Sulphur Spring: 23.8 mi
  • Blue Sink: 24.2 mi
Ghost towns: 3
Peaks: 3
  • Sunset Hills: 19.0 mi
  • The Union: 21.2 mi
  • Big Cockroach Mound: 22.3 mi
Picnic sites: 1
  • Ben T. Davis Beach: 15.5 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Big Cockroach MoundSE 128°7 m22.3 mi
Sunset HillsN 5°5 m19.0 mi
The UnionN 3°1 m21.2 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3619:1219:43
June solstice06:3619:5720:31
September equinox07:2018:5819:29
December solstice07:1917:0617:41

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–May.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F626468737882838482776964
Precip in2.62.42.42.62.78.99.78.86.42.51.62.9

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — ST Petersburg Clearwater Intl, 8 mi away.

  • American Alligator292 obs
  • Common Gallinule217 obs
  • Brown Anole202 obs
  • Anhinga160 obs
  • Great Egret94 obs
  • Monarch92 obs
  • Eastern Lubber Grasshopper87 obs
  • White Ibis86 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.

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OpenStreetMap element node/4641286338

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