Penn Athletic Area
Penn Athletic Area is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 68 m. Tecate Peak stands 1,184 m to the east-southeast, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Paradise Hills Community Park, a park 0.6 miles away.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 68 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Paradise Hills Community Park: 0.6 mi
- Bay Terrace Community Park: 0.7 mi
- Parkside Park: 0.8 mi
- Bayview Hills Community Park: 0.8 mi
- Bayview Hills Green Park: 0.9 mi
- Bonita Museum & Cultural Center: 1.4 mi
- Museum of American Treasures: 2.8 mi
- Women's Museum of California Education Center: 3.2 mi
- San Diego Electric Railway Association & National City Depot Museum: 3.9 mi
- Chicano Park Museum and Cultural Center: 5.8 mi
- Gobblers Knob: 3.3 mi
- Dictionary Hill: 4.6 mi
- Mother Miguel Mountain: 4.9 mi
- San Miguel Mountain: 6.6 mi
- Rock Mountain: 6.8 mi
- Mariposa Lane: 3.9 mi
- Oculus: 4.4 mi
- Rigors of Flight: 4.5 mi
- Chicano Park Kiosko: 5.8 mi
- Sheltering Wings: 6.1 mi
- Lemon Grove Big Lemon: 4.6 mi
- Big Bird's Rambling River: 6.5 mi
- Abby's Garden: 6.5 mi
- Sesame Street Party Parade: 6.6 mi
- Sesame Street Neighborhood: 6.6 mi
- PSA Flight 182 Memorial: 6.0 mi
- Vietnam Unit Memorial Monument: 6.7 mi
- Aztec Center: 6.7 mi
- SDSU Veterans Memorial: 6.8 mi
- John F. Kennedy Memorial: 6.9 mi
- Lemon Grove Community Garden: 4.3 mi
- Water Conservation Garden: 5.1 mi
- Strata Community Garden: 6.5 mi
- Aztec Cannibus Garden: 6.6 mi
- College Area Community Garden: 6.7 mi
- South Rim: 9.1 mi
- Middle Earth: 10.1 mi
- Middle Earth: 10.1 mi
- Middle Earth: 10.1 mi
- Limbo - Deviation: 10.2 mi
- Coronado Shores Beach: 7.4 mi
- North Beach: 7.7 mi
- Coronado Beach: 8.0 mi
- Central Beach: 8.1 mi
- North Beach: 8.5 mi
- Dictionary Hill County Preserve: 4.6 mi
- Proctor Valley Natural Resource Area: 6.7 mi
- Silver Strand Natural Preserve: 6.7 mi
- Adobe Falls Ecological Reserve: 7.3 mi
- Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve: 9.5 mi
- Sweetwater Spring: 5.6 mi
- Dog Spring: 9.8 mi
- La Honda Spring: 9.9 mi
- Hubbard Spring: 13.8 mi
- Echo Spring: 16.7 mi
- Adobe Falls: 7.2 mi
- Lower Adobe Falls: 7.2 mi
- Africa Rocks Waterfall: 7.4 mi
- Los Penasquitos Waterfall: 18.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 22.0 miles of Penn Athletic Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tecate Peak | ESE 108° | 1,184 m | 21.9 mi |
| Gaskill Peak | ENE 78° | 1,157 m | 19.7 mi |
| Lyons Peak | E 84° | 1,139 m | 16.6 mi |
| El Cajon Mountain | NE 39° | 1,112 m | 21.0 mi |
| Lawson Peak | E 80° | 1,099 m | 19.0 mi |
| Otay Mountain | ESE 116° | 1,067 m | 13.1 mi |
| El Capitan | NE 37° | 1,026 m | 20.8 mi |
| Elena Mountain | E 87° | 1,015 m | 18.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:53 | 18:28 | 19:00 |
| June solstice | 05:42 | 19:24 | 20:00 |
| September equinox | 06:37 | 18:14 | 18:46 |
| December solstice | 06:47 | 16:09 | 16:47 |
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 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 61 | 63 | 66 | 70 | 71 | 71 | 67 | 61 | 56 |
| Precip in | 1.8 | 2.3 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 1.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Chula Vista, 3 mi away.
- Western Fence Lizard177 obs
- Mallard148 obs
- Western Honey Bee137 obs
- Monarch103 obs
- Mourning Dove88 obs
- Song Sparrow86 obs
- Vermilion Flycatcher86 obs
- California Towhee85 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/219863439
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