Tulare Hill
Tulare Hill rises to 174 m in California. Copernicus Peak stands 1,327 m to the northeast, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Tulare Hill Conservation Area, a nature reserve 0.2 miles away.
The story
Tulare Hill is a prominent hill in the Santa Teresa Hills of western Santa Clara County, California. It lies along the southernmost edge of San Jose, California, adjacent to the Metcalf Energy Center. The hill and surrounding 330 acres (130 ha) of serpentine grasslands are home to the endangered Bay checkerspot butterfly and Dudleya setchellii wildflower. A portion of the hill makes up the Tulare Hill Ecological Preserve.
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Wikidata Q14684183, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 174 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Tulare Hill Conservation Area: 0.2 mi
- Tulare Hill Ecological Preserve: 0.4 mi
- Fisher Creek Conservation Easement: 0.4 mi
- Coyote Creek Parkway: 0.9 mi
- Basking Ridge Conservation Easement: 1.1 mi
- The Paseo: 0.6 mi
- Avenida Espana Park: 0.8 mi
- Metcalf Park: 1.0 mi
- Los Paseos Park: 1.0 mi
- Field Sports Park: 1.5 mi
- Picnic Site: 0.7 mi
- Coyote Ranch: 1.1 mi
- Pueblo Day Use Area: 1.9 mi
- Sycamore Rest Area: 3.1 mi
- Fish Camp Rest Site: 4.1 mi
- Coyote Peak: 1.4 mi
- Spreckels Hill: 1.8 mi
- Mount Misery: 4.7 mi
- Laurel Hill: 4.8 mi
- Bald Peaks: 4.8 mi
- Bernal-Gulnac-Joice Ranch: 2.4 mi
- Bailey Fellows House: 3.0 mi
- New Almaden Quicksilver Mining Museum: 4.6 mi
- Morgan Hill Museum: 8.0 mi
- Villa Mira Monte: 8.0 mi
- Bailey Fellows House: 3.2 mi
- Historic El Camino Real: 4.0 mi
- Gina "Frogquist" Grove: 5.2 mi
- The Pfeiffer Stone House: 5.3 mi
- Chimney: 5.3 mi
- Bird's Eye View: 4.7 mi
- Ohlone Woman: 6.3 mi
- Discoveries: 6.8 mi
- Discoveries: 6.8 mi
- Discoveries: 6.8 mi
- Santa Clara County Fairgrounds: 7.6 mi
- Rebel Yell Haunted House: 8.3 mi
- Little Dipper: 8.5 mi
- Slide Creek Falls: 8.5 mi
- Shotgun Falls: 8.5 mi
- Lake Cunningham Native Garden: 8.3 mi
- Rose Garden: 8.4 mi
- Morgan Hill Community Garden: 10.2 mi
- SoFA Demonstration Garden: 10.3 mi
- San Jose State Community Garden: 10.3 mi
- Santa Teresa Springs: 2.2 mi
- Cherry Springs: 9.0 mi
- Willow Spring: 10.3 mi
- South Spring: 10.7 mi
- Blackberry Spring: 11.1 mi
- Potbelly Beach: 19.4 mi
- Potbelly Beach: 19.4 mi
- Rio Del Mar Beach: 19.4 mi
- Beer Can Beach: 19.8 mi
- Esplanade Park Beach: 20.3 mi
- Lower Falls: 9.6 mi
- Granuja Falls: 9.7 mi
- Black Rock Falls: 9.9 mi
- Basin Falls: 10.1 mi
- Upper Falls: 10.1 mi
- Graffiti Rock: 17.9 mi
- Lyme Disease Rock: 18.5 mi
- Underworld Rock: 18.9 mi
- The Bluff: 19.7 mi
- Capitola Bluffs: 20.1 mi
- Felton Covered Bridge: 21.0 mi
- Felton Covered Bridge: 21.0 mi
- Santa Cruz West Breakwater Light: 22.6 mi
- Santa Cruz Lighthouse: 23.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.4 miles of Tulare Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Copernicus Peak | NE 38° | 1,327 m | 11.1 mi |
| Observatory Peak | NE 37° | 1,298 m | 10.4 mi |
| Hipparchus Peak | NE 39° | 1,295 m | 11.1 mi |
| Tycho Brahe Peak | NE 37° | 1,286 m | 10.6 mi |
| Mount Hamilton | NE 36° | 1,279 m | 10.4 mi |
| Huyghens Peak | NE 37° | 1,276 m | 10.5 mi |
| Mount Isabel | NE 45° | 1,275 m | 10.4 mi |
| Galileo Peak | NE 36° | 1,273 m | 11.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:11 | 18:45 | 19:19 |
| June solstice | 05:48 | 19:53 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:56 | 18:31 | 19:05 |
| December solstice | 07:18 | 16:13 | 16:54 |
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, 11 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/547992930
Day trips start here
- Aptos · 19 mi
- Capitola · 20 mi
- Watsonville · 21 mi
- Santa Cruz · 23 mi
- Moss Landing · 29 mi
- San Juan Bautista · 29 mi
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