Japanese Gardens
Japanese Gardens is a park in California, at a modelled elevation of 36 m. Mount Diablo stands 1,173 m to the north-northeast, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is de Anza Park, a park less than a tenth of a mile away.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Hayward Area Recreation and Park District (HARD)
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- de Anza Park: 0.0 mi
- DeAnza Park: 0.1 mi
- de Anza Park: 0.2 mi
- Carlos Bee Park: 0.3 mi
- Portuguese Centennial Park: 0.5 mi
- Seven Year Sister City Anniversary (Hayward–Funabashi): 0.0 mi
- Peace Sign: 1.0 mi
- Memorial to the Chinese Laborers: 4.5 mi
- Rowell Ranch: 5.6 mi
- Flight 93 Memorial: 5.7 mi
- Hayward Area Historical Society: 0.2 mi
- Discovery Center: 0.9 mi
- C. E. Smith Museum of Anthropology: 2.2 mi
- McConaghy House: 2.4 mi
- Hayward Shoreline Interpretive Center: 5.0 mi
- Maderia Hill: 0.9 mi
- Vista Peak: 3.5 mi
- Garin Peak: 3.6 mi
- Gossip Rock: 6.0 mi
- Wiedemann Hill: 6.2 mi
- Castro Valley High Scool Garden: 1.7 mi
- Reading Garden (Roos): 5.3 mi
- Kellicutt Garden: 5.4 mi
- Iris Garden: 6.1 mi
- John Haley Community Garden: 7.4 mi
- Picnic Area 2: 2.1 mi
- Picnic Area 1: 2.1 mi
- Birthday Party Area: 6.0 mi
- Picnic Grove: 7.8 mi
- Lampert Knoll: 8.0 mi
- Truth Is Beauty: 5.3 mi
- Rising Wave: 6.6 mi
- The Junction: 7.9 mi
- Watermelon Rock: 8.0 mi
- Duplex Cone: 8.3 mi
- Dunsmuir House and Gardens: 5.5 mi
- iFLY Indoor Skydiving: 5.6 mi
- Mountain Lion: 5.9 mi
- Black Bear: 6.0 mi
- Meyers Dry Creek Garden: 6.0 mi
- Dry Creek Pioneer Regional Park: 5.7 mi
- Dublin Hills Regional Park: 6.5 mi
- Bishop Ranch Regional Open Space Preserve: 7.6 mi
- Land Bank: 8.6 mi
- Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline: 8.7 mi
- Niles beach: 8.1 mi
- Sandy Beach: 8.7 mi
- Shadow Cliffs Beach: 13.0 mi
- Encinal beach: 13.1 mi
- Lake Temescal Beach: 14.2 mi
- Eugene Spring: 7.1 mi
- Sulfur Spring: 14.6 mi
- Sheepherder Spring: 14.9 mi
- Sulfur Spring: 15.1 mi
- Mineral Spring: 15.2 mi
- Russell City: 3.5 mi
- Stokes Landing: 6.9 mi
- Lynn: 11.9 mi
- Drawbridge: 15.9 mi
- Acelanus: 20.5 mi
- Chab: 4.5 mi
- The Devil's Shelf: 8.2 mi
- Turtle Rock: 14.9 mi
- Mitchell Rock: 18.0 mi
- Del Valle Cliffs: 18.9 mi
- Tehan Falls: 7.7 mi
- Grey Fox Creek Fountain: 18.5 mi
- Abrigo Falls: 18.9 mi
- Murietta Falls: 22.3 mi
- Huntington Falls: 22.4 mi
- Yerba Buena Island Lighthouse: 17.8 mi
- Quarters A: 17.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 16.9 miles of Japanese Gardens. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Diablo | NNE 33° | 1,173 m | 16.7 mi |
| Devil's Pulpit | NNE 33° | 1,110 m | 16.7 mi |
| Ransom Point | NNE 32° | 1,037 m | 16.9 mi |
| Mount Allison | SE 137° | 793 m | 16.9 mi |
| Mission Peak | SE 137° | 761 m | 15.9 mi |
| Sunol Peak | ESE 115° | 664 m | 9.5 mi |
| Oyster Point | NE 47° | 644 m | 15.2 mi |
| Cave Point | NE 44° | 636 m | 15.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:13 | 18:46 | 19:21 |
| June solstice | 05:48 | 19:55 | 20:34 |
| September equinox | 06:57 | 18:32 | 19:07 |
| December solstice | 07:21 | 16:13 | 16:54 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: year-round.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 51 | 54 | 56 | 58 | 61 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 67 | 64 | 56 | 51 |
| Precip in | 2.9 | 3.1 | 2.4 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 1.5 | 3.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hayward AIR Terminal, 3 mi away.
- miner's lettuce67 obs
- Mule Deer63 obs
- Western Honey Bee58 obs
- Wild Turkey49 obs
- California Slender Salamander48 obs
- Eastern Fox Squirrel46 obs
- Noble False Widow44 obs
- coast live oak42 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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