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Mission Beach Park

Mission Beach Park from directly overhead

Mission Beach Park is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 4 m. Woodson Mountain stands 878 m to the northeast, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is SDSU Beach, a beach 0.1 miles away. 56 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
4 m
Getting there

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Coordinates32.78036, -117.25353
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Santa Clara Recreation Center: 0.3 mi
  • Santa Clara Point Community Park: 0.4 mi
  • Mission Beach Pocket Park: 0.4 mi
  • Mission Bay Park: 0.8 mi
  • Mission Beach Park: 0.8 mi
Artworks
Attractions
  • Crystal Pier Entrance: 1.1 mi
  • Cirque de Neon: 1.7 mi
  • Aquarium de la Mer: 1.7 mi
  • California Tide Pool: 1.7 mi
  • Bayside Skyride: 1.7 mi
Historic sites
Museums
Gardens: 59
Peaks: 56
Beaches: 24
Nature reserves: 22
Cliffs: 20
  • Sunset Cliffs: 3.2 mi
  • Sunset Cliffs: 3.8 mi
  • Swordfish Point: 3.8 mi
  • Sunset Cliffs: 4.4 mi
  • Sunset Cliffs: 4.6 mi
Picnic sites: 5
  • Ridgetop Picnic Site: 21.7 mi
  • Tree Lake Picnic Area No. 3: 23.2 mi
  • Ray Love Picnic Area: 23.3 mi
  • El Arroyo Picnic Area: 23.5 mi
  • Royal Picnic Area: 24.3 mi
Waterfalls: 4
  • Africa Rocks Waterfall: 6.6 mi
  • Lower Adobe Falls: 10.6 mi
  • Adobe Falls: 10.6 mi
  • Los Penasquitos Waterfall: 11.0 mi
Springs: 4
  • Dog Spring: 12.5 mi
  • Sweetwater Spring: 16.8 mi
  • La Honda Spring: 21.8 mi
  • Rock Haven Spring: 22.3 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Woodson MountainNE 46°878 m22.8 mi
North Iron MountainNE 49°824 m22.5 mi
Iron MountainNE 53°818 m21.7 mi
Ramona Overlook PeakNE 51°802 m22.6 mi
Middle SummitNE 51°790 m22.3 mi
San Miguel MountainESE 107°782 m19.3 mi
Mount EllieNE 50°743.712 m22.1 mi
Wildwood MountainNE 53°725.424 m22.7 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5418:2819:01
June solstice05:4219:2520:01
September equinox06:3818:1518:47
December solstice06:4816:1016:48

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

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

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F555658606264687068655955
Precip in2.32.51.40.60.30.00.10.00.20.60.71.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — SAN Diego Seaworld, 2 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Western Gull1,929 obs
  • Snowy Egret1,697 obs
  • Great Blue Heron1,311 obs
  • Willet1,254 obs
  • California Aglaja1,047 obs
  • Black-crowned Night Heron989 obs
  • Marbled Godwit957 obs
  • Brown Pelican940 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 node/358789210

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