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Kensington Park

Kensington Park from directly overhead

Kensington Park is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 114 m. Lyons Peak stands 1,139 m to the east-southeast, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Terrace Drive Mini Park, a park 0.1 miles away.

What the record says

Elevation
114 m

How to reach it

Coordinates32.76303, -117.10688

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Terrace Drive Mini Park: 0.1 mi
  • Ward Canyon Park: 0.2 mi
  • Adams Avenue Park: 0.6 mi
  • Teralta Neighborhood Park: 0.8 mi
  • City Heights Square Mini Park: 0.9 mi
Gardens: 60
Historic sites
Museums
Attractions
Artworks
Peaks
  • Marston Point: 3.9 mi
  • Cowles Mountain: 5.5 mi
  • Kwaay Paay Peak: 5.7 mi
  • Pyles Peak: 5.8 mi
  • South Fortuna Mountain: 5.8 mi
Cliffs: 27
  • Middle Earth: 5.3 mi
  • Middle Earth: 5.3 mi
  • Middle Earth: 5.3 mi
  • Limbo - Deviation: 5.4 mi
  • Limbo: 5.4 mi
Nature reserves: 24
Beaches: 24
Springs: 13
  • Dog Spring: 5.4 mi
  • Sweetwater Spring: 8.3 mi
  • La Honda Spring: 13.2 mi
  • Rock Haven Spring: 18.0 mi
  • Hubbard Spring: 19.2 mi
Waterfalls: 4
  • Lower Adobe Falls: 2.4 mi
  • Adobe Falls: 2.4 mi
  • Africa Rocks Waterfall: 3.2 mi
  • Los Penasquitos Waterfall: 12.0 mi
Picnic sites: 4
  • Tree Lake Picnic Area No. 3: 21.7 mi
  • Ray Love Picnic Area: 21.8 mi
  • Ridgetop Picnic Site: 21.9 mi
  • El Arroyo Picnic Area: 22.1 mi
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 21.2 miles of Kensington Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Lyons PeakESE 102°1,139 m20.4 mi
El Cajon MountainENE 58°1,112 m19.7 mi
Otay MountainSE 127°1,067 m19.2 mi
El CapitanENE 57°1,026 m19.3 mi
Rock MountainNE 56°996 m20.8 mi
Silverdome IINE 55°970.36 m18.6 mi
Woodson MountainNNE 25°878 m18.7 mi
Sycuan PeakE 92°840 m17.5 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5318:2819:00
June solstice05:4219:2420:00
September equinox06:3718:1418:47
December solstice06:4816:0916:47

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

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

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F575759626467727473686156
Precip in2.32.61.60.80.30.10.10.00.20.50.91.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — SAN Diego Montgomery FLD, 4 mi away.

  • Western Fence Lizard372 obs
  • Monarch226 obs
  • Western Honey Bee203 obs
  • Southern Alligator Lizard200 obs
  • House Finch195 obs
  • Cooper's Hawk176 obs
  • Noble False Widow148 obs
  • Eastern Fox Squirrel134 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/181322889

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