Sunset Park
Sunset Park is a park in Texas, at a recorded elevation of 8 m. Barbers Hill stands 25 m to the east-northeast, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Cascade Park, a park 0.4 miles away. Texas Independence Trail passes 1.0 miles off. 3 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 8 m
How to reach it
- 1.0 mi off the Texas Independence Trail
Named places within 25 miles
- Cascade Park: 0.4 mi
- Vermillion Park: 0.8 mi
- Parklane Park: 1.0 mi
- Rusk Park: 1.1 mi
- Oak Meadows Park: 1.2 mi
- Pasadena Independent School District: 1.2 mi
- Allen Ranch: 1.2 mi
- City of Pasadena: 1.3 mi
- Bob Harris Station: 1.4 mi
- Texan Army Crossing of Buffalo Bayou (San Jacinto): 1.5 mi
- Susan Garver Family Discovery Garden: 2.8 mi
- Culinary Garden: 2.9 mi
- Pine Grove Garden: 2.9 mi
- Global Collection Garden: 2.9 mi
- Houston Botanic Garden: 2.9 mi
- Healing Nature: 7.2 mi
- Healing Nature: 7.3 mi
- Round About: 7.3 mi
- Orbit II: 7.3 mi
- Doble Physichromic Modular: 7.4 mi
- Pasadena Historical Museum: 1.3 mi
- Great Silver Fleet Hangar - 1940 Air Terminal Museum: 5.0 mi
- 1940 Air Terminal Museum: 5.1 mi
- Proctor Museum of Natural Science: 6.6 mi
- Lone Star Flight Museum: 6.8 mi
- Ingenia Polymers Houston: 6.4 mi
- 'Burp the Bayou' Red Button: 10.0 mi
- Flow Works: 10.1 mi
- Eco Station: 10.1 mi
- Weather Station: 10.1 mi
- JP Morgan Chase Bench Area: 9.3 mi
- Beverly and Staman Ogilvie Seating Area: 9.3 mi
- CenterPoint Energy Seating Areas: 9.3 mi
- Sarofim Picnic Lawn: 9.3 mi
- Lake Picnic Area: 10.3 mi
- Brays Greenway Park: 4.3 mi
- Native Coastal Prairie Preserve: 6.9 mi
- Taub Greenspace: 7.4 mi
- Garver Greenspace: 7.6 mi
- Coastal Prairie: 9.0 mi
- Blackwell Peninsula: 12.3 mi
- Mesquite Knoll: 17.5 mi
- Barbers Hill: 22.2 mi
- Red Bluff: 15.6 mi
- Red Bluff: 15.7 mi
- Needle Point: 20.1 mi
- Beauchamp Spring: 11.0 mi
- Riordan's Spring: 11.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Sunset Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barbers Hill | ENE 61° | 25 m | 22.2 mi |
| Blackwell Peninsula | E 83° | 3 m | 12.3 mi |
| Mesquite Knoll | E 97° | 0 m | 17.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:26 | 19:01 | 19:33 |
| June solstice | 06:22 | 19:50 | 20:25 |
| September equinox | 07:10 | 18:47 | 19:19 |
| December solstice | 07:13 | 16:51 | 17:27 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–May.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 55 | 59 | 65 | 71 | 78 | 83 | 85 | 85 | 81 | 73 | 63 | 57 |
| Precip in | 4.1 | 2.9 | 3.3 | 4.1 | 5.4 | 6.1 | 4.6 | 5.4 | 5.8 | 5.8 | 3.9 | 4.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Houston William P Hobby AP, 5 mi away.
- Mallard23 obs
- Muscovy Duck23 obs
- Gulf Coast Toad16 obs
- Yellow-rumped Warbler15 obs
- Green Anole13 obs
- Black-bellied Whistling-Duck12 obs
- straggler daisy11 obs
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron10 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/54166849
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