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Glorietta Bay Park

Glorietta Bay Park from directly overhead

Glorietta Bay Park is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 4 m. Lyons Peak stands 1,139 m to the east, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Coronado Shores Beach, a beach 0.4 miles away. 52 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
4 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates32.67514, -117.16842
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Historic sites
  • Vietnam Unit Memorial Monument: 0.5 mi
  • El Camino Real Bell: 0.8 mi
  • Site of First Military Flight School: 1.7 mi
  • Memorial to Merchant Seamen: 2.3 mi
  • First Emperor of China: 2.4 mi
Museums
Parks
Artworks
Attractions
Peaks: 52
Gardens: 38
Beaches: 24
Cliffs: 21
  • Point Loma: 4.3 mi
  • Sunset Cliffs: 5.8 mi
  • Sunset Cliffs: 5.8 mi
  • Sunset Cliffs: 6.2 mi
  • Swordfish Point: 6.3 mi
Nature reserves: 21
Springs: 7
  • Sweetwater Spring: 12.0 mi
  • Dog Spring: 12.4 mi
  • La Honda Spring: 16.8 mi
  • Hubbard Spring: 20.7 mi
  • Echo Spring: 23.5 mi
Waterfalls: 4
  • Africa Rocks Waterfall: 4.4 mi
  • Lower Adobe Falls: 9.2 mi
  • Adobe Falls: 9.2 mi
  • Los Penasquitos Waterfall: 17.4 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Lyons PeakE 85°1,139 m23.6 mi
Otay MountainESE 106°1,067 m19.6 mi
Mother Grundy PeakE 94°927 m24.9 mi
Sycuan PeakENE 75°840 m21.8 mi
Iron MountainNNE 31°818 m23.9 mi
Ramona Overlook PeakNNE 30°802 m25.0 mi
Middle SummitNNE 30°790 m24.7 mi
San Miguel MountainE 84°782 m13.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5318:2819:01
June solstice05:4219:2420:00
September equinox06:3818:1418:47
December solstice06:4816:1016:47

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

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

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F585860626466707271676257
Precip in1.71.91.40.60.50.10.10.00.20.60.81.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — N IS NAS, 3 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Western Gull610 obs
  • Eccentric Sand Dollar233 obs
  • Wavy Turban202 obs
  • Heermann's Gull199 obs
  • Willet195 obs
  • Marbled Godwit189 obs
  • Gould Beanclam179 obs
  • Striped Shore Crab177 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/44501215

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