Mount Hamilton
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Mount Hamilton rises to 1,279 m in California. Copernicus Peak stands 1,327 m to the east-northeast, 0.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Observatory Peak, a peak less than a tenth of a mile away.
The story
Mount Hamilton is a mountain in the Diablo Range in Santa Clara County, California. The mountain's peak, at 4,265 feet (1,300 m), overlooks the heavily urbanized Santa Clara Valley and is the site of Lick Observatory, the world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory. The asteroid 452 Hamiltonia, discovered in 1899, is named after the mountain. Golden eagle nesting sites are found on the slopes of Mount Hamilton. On clear days, Mount Tamalpais, the Santa Cruz Mountains, Monterey Bay, the Monterey Peninsula, and even Yosemite National Park are visible from the summit of the mountain.
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Wikidata Q1950508, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,279 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Frog pond: 2.3 mi
- Little Dipper: 9.3 mi
- Lazy River: 9.3 mi
- Shotgun Falls: 9.3 mi
- Great White Shark: 9.4 mi
- Montgomery Hill Park: 6.9 mi
- Fowler Creek Park: 6.9 mi
- Hidden forest park: 7.0 mi
- Tarun Lake Park: 7.4 mi
- Groesbeck Hill Park: 7.5 mi
- Observatory Peak: 0.0 mi
- Huyghens Peak: 0.1 mi
- Ptolemy Peak: 0.2 mi
- Tycho Brahe Peak: 0.3 mi
- Copernicus Peak: 0.8 mi
- Reverend Hamilton: 0.0 mi
- Pala Seca Cabin: 4.4 mi
- J. J. Montgomery Monument: 7.2 mi
- J. J. Montgomery Monument - "Soaring Flight": 7.6 mi
- Fred W. “Bill” Gehri Bridge: 8.7 mi
- Stockman's Group Picnic SIte: 4.0 mi
- Pala Seca Cabin: 4.4 mi
- Sachi's Rest Picnic Area: 9.3 mi
- Slide Creek Cabanas: 9.4 mi
- Chappell Picnic Area: 9.5 mi
- Discoveries: 8.6 mi
- Health Brings Peace of Heart and Happiness: 10.0 mi
- Lunar New Year: 10.0 mi
- A Monument to the Last Barn: 11.1 mi
- Bird's Eye View: 11.1 mi
- Alum Rock Science & Nature Center: 9.4 mi
- Bernal-Gulnac-Joice Ranch: 11.7 mi
- History Park at Kelley Park: 11.9 mi
- Hellenic Heritage Museum: 11.9 mi
- Chinese American Historical Museum: 11.9 mi
- Lake Cunningham Native Garden: 8.9 mi
- Chinese Cultural Garden: 11.7 mi
- Ponderosa Woods: 12.1 mi
- Blue Garden: 12.2 mi
- Gray Garden: 12.2 mi
- South Spring: 0.6 mi
- Willow Spring: 8.6 mi
- Deer Horn Spring: 10.5 mi
- Sada's Spring: 10.6 mi
- Pajahuello Spring: 10.9 mi
- Pinto Creek Falls: 13.4 mi
- Murietta Falls: 13.8 mi
- Robison Falls: 16.0 mi
- Pacheco Falls: 18.9 mi
- Lower Falls: 19.5 mi
- Drawbridge: 20.1 mi
- Lexington: 21.5 mi
- Alma: 21.6 mi
- Wrights: 21.8 mi
- Burrell: 21.9 mi
- The Bluff: 13.0 mi
- Del Valle Cliffs: 20.3 mi
- Graffiti Rock: 24.1 mi
- Del Valle West Beach: 16.5 mi
- Del Valle East Beach: 17.0 mi
- Westley Rest Area: 24.1 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.1 miles of Mount Hamilton. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Copernicus Peak | ENE 65° | 1,327 m | 0.8 mi |
| Observatory Peak | SSE 160° | 1,298 m | 0.0 mi |
| Hipparchus Peak | ENE 70° | 1,295 m | 0.9 mi |
| Tycho Brahe Peak | ENE 75° | 1,286 m | 0.3 mi |
| Huyghens Peak | E 90° | 1,276 m | 0.1 mi |
| Mount Isabel | SE 131° | 1,275 m | 1.6 mi |
| Galileo Peak | NE 36° | 1,273 m | 0.8 mi |
| Ptolemy Peak | SSW 196° | 1,237 m | 0.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:11 | 18:44 | 19:19 |
| June solstice | 05:47 | 19:52 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:55 | 18:31 | 19:05 |
| December solstice | 07:18 | 16:12 | 16:53 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 44 | 43 | 45 | 48 | 55 | 64 | 72 | 72 | 67 | 59 | 49 | 43 |
| Precip in | 5.0 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 2.2 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 1.3 | 3.0 | 4.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — MT Hamilton, under a mile away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358767116
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- Aptos · 29 mi
- Watsonville · 30 mi
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