Munger Peak
Munger Peak rises to 3,680 m in California. Vennacher Needle stands 3,956 m to the northeast, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Goat Mountain, a peak 0.5 miles away.
The story
Mountain in the Sierra Nevada of California.
Wikidata Q49055809, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3,680.3 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Goat Mountain: 0.5 mi
- Kid Peak: 1.6 mi
- Mount Hutchings: 3.1 mi
- Dougherty Peak: 3.7 mi
- State Peak: 4.4 mi
- Rock Monster: 16.6 mi
- Lower Stony Creek: 20.2 mi
- General Sherman Tree: 22.3 mi
- Chief Sequoyah: 22.8 mi
- Congress Group: 22.9 mi
- Mist Falls: 4.5 mi
- Roaring River Falls: 6.8 mi
- Triple Falls: 7.7 mi
- Lower Gardiner Falls: 7.7 mi
- Upper Gardiner Falls: 7.8 mi
- Scotty Spring: 14.8 mi
- McGann Springs: 15.9 mi
- Grover Anton Spring: 16.2 mi
- Tub Springs: 16.3 mi
- Harry Birch Springs: 16.3 mi
- Shorty's Granite Pass Cabin: 1.9 mi
- Shorty's Gardiner Basin Cabin: 5.6 mi
- Shorty's Bubbs Creek Cabin: 7.1 mi
- Shorty's Woods Creek Crossing Cabin: 8.1 mi
- Shorty's Sphinx Creek Cabin: 8.3 mi
- Grizzly Falls Picnic Area: 10.3 mi
- Stony Creek Picnic Area: 19.9 mi
- South Lake Picnic Area: 20.5 mi
- Halstead Meadow Picnic Area: 21.2 mi
- La Hupp Picnic Area: 21.3 mi
- Muro Blanco: 4.0 mi
- Slide Bluffs: 6.7 mi
- Windy Cliff: 9.0 mi
- Great Cliffs: 9.7 mi
- Windy Cliffs: 13.9 mi
- Eastern California Museum: 21.4 mi
- Mary Austin's House: 21.5 mi
- Giant Forest Museum: 23.9 mi
- Dehy Park: 21.4 mi
- General Grant Grove Section Kings Canyon Nat: 21.8 mi
- Independence Park: 21.8 mi
- Sandy Cove Beach: 18.7 mi
- Jumping Rock: 19.1 mi
- Division Creek Rest Area: 19.5 mi
- Fort Independence Travel Plaza: 19.5 mi
- Kearsarge: 14.8 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.5 miles of Munger Peak. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vennacher Needle | NE 34° | 3,956 m | 10.4 mi |
| Mount Ickes | ENE 62° | 3,953 m | 8.8 mi |
| Arrow Peak | NE 53° | 3,951 m | 6.2 mi |
| Mount Gardiner | SE 125° | 3,935 m | 8.2 mi |
| Mount Ruskin | NE 39° | 3,934 m | 9.3 mi |
| Mount Clarence King | ESE 111° | 3,932 m | 7.9 mi |
| Crater Mountain | ENE 69° | 3,924 m | 9.4 mi |
| Staghorn Peak | NE 36° | 3,905 m | 9.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:59 | 18:32 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:36 | 19:39 | 20:18 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:19 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 07:04 | 16:02 | 16:42 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jun–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 28 | 30 | 34 | 38 | 46 | 54 | 61 | 60 | 55 | 45 | 35 | 27 |
| Precip in | 8.7 | 7.9 | 6.4 | 3.2 | 2.0 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 2.3 | 3.6 | 6.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lodgepole, 21 mi away.
Inside the official boundary of Kings Canyon National Park.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358795298
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