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Kennedy Park

Kennedy Park from directly overhead

Kennedy Park is a park in California, at a modelled elevation of 13 m. Mission Peak stands 761 m to the southeast, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is McConaghy Park, a park 0.1 miles away.

How to reach it

Coordinates37.66822, -122.12102

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Museums
Peaks
  • Maderia Hill: 2.2 mi
  • Vista Peak: 5.0 mi
  • Garin Peak: 5.0 mi
  • Turk Island: 6.7 mi
  • Gossip Rock: 7.5 mi
Historic sites
  • Seven Year Sister City Anniversary (Hayward–Funabashi): 2.4 mi
  • Peace Sign: 3.3 mi
  • Memorial to the Chinese Laborers: 4.5 mi
  • City of San Leandro Monument: 5.2 mi
  • Flight 93 Memorial: 5.6 mi
Gardens
Picnic sites
Artworks
  • Truth Is Beauty: 4.3 mi
  • Rising Wave: 4.8 mi
  • Watermelon Rock: 6.6 mi
  • Duplex Cone: 7.0 mi
  • Laurel Space Bears: 9.2 mi
Attractions
  • Dunsmuir House and Gardens: 5.3 mi
  • iFLY Indoor Skydiving: 5.7 mi
  • Muntjac: 5.7 mi
  • Sika Deer: 5.7 mi
  • Sun Bear: 5.7 mi
Nature reserves
Beaches: 51
  • Sandy Beach: 7.4 mi
  • Niles beach: 8.9 mi
  • Encinal beach: 11.6 mi
  • Coyote Point Beach: 12.5 mi
  • Aardvark Beach: 12.9 mi
Springs: 23
  • Eugene Spring: 9.4 mi
  • Sulfur Spring: 16.6 mi
  • Sulfur Spring: 16.7 mi
  • Sheepherder Spring: 16.9 mi
  • Mineral Spring: 17.0 mi
Ghost towns: 9
Cliffs: 9
  • Chab: 4.4 mi
  • The Devil's Shelf: 9.6 mi
  • Turtle Rock: 16.7 mi
  • Mitchell Rock: 19.7 mi
  • Del Valle Cliffs: 21.0 mi
Waterfalls: 6

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 17.2 miles of Kennedy Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mission PeakSE 129°761 m17.0 mi
Sunol PeakESE 107°664 m11.4 mi
Rock 2NNE 18°617 m10.7 mi
Vollmer PeakNNW 340°581 m15.9 mi
Knobcone PointNE 45°568 m17.1 mi
Wiedemann HillNE 55°565 m8.4 mi
Las Trampas PeakNNE 15°557 m11.8 mi
Vail PeakNNE 19°545 m11.5 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1318:4619:21
June solstice05:4819:5520:34
September equinox06:5718:3219:07
December solstice07:2116:1316:54

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

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

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F515456586165666767645651
Precip in2.93.12.41.20.60.20.00.10.10.81.53.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hayward AIR Terminal, under a mile away.

  • Eastern Fox Squirrel62 obs
  • Mallard58 obs
  • American Crow56 obs
  • Western Honey Bee54 obs
  • Lawn daisy43 obs
  • white clover37 obs
  • Muscovy Duck31 obs
  • garden nasturtium31 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 way/43985572

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