Twin Buttes
Twin Buttes rises to 2,570 m in New Mexico. Sonsela Buttes stands 2,709 m to the north-northwest, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Beelzebub, a peak 2.8 miles away. Trail of the Ancients - NM passes 5.0 miles off. 82 named places lie within 25 miles, 27 of them named summits.
The story
Mountain in New Mexico, United States of America.
Wikidata Q49085910, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2,570 m
How to reach it
- 5.0 mi off the Trail of the Ancients - NM, National
- 9.8 mi off the Dine' Tah "Among the People" Scenic Road
- 26.7 mi off the Historic Route 66, National
82 named places within 25 miles
- Squirrel Springs: 4.1 mi
- White Clay Spring: 5.6 mi
- Cold Water Spring: 7.9 mi
- Pine Spring 14N-25: 8.2 mi
- Manuelito Spring: 8.6 mi
- Beelzebub: 2.8 mi
- Zilditloi Mountain: 3.3 mi
- Frog Rock: 4.4 mi
- Split Mesa: 6.4 mi
- Green Knobs: 6.5 mi
- Venus Needle: 4.7 mi
- Cleopatra Needle: 6.0 mi
- Tseghaahoodzani (Window Rock): 14.4 mi
- Window Rock Tribal Park: 14.5 mi
- Tse Bonita Tribal Park: 15.6 mi
- Navajo Tribal Fairground: 16.4 mi
- Falling Iron Cliffs: 20.4 mi
- Hunters Point: 23.7 mi
- NP21: 4.7 mi
- window rock: 14.4 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 14.5 mi
- Narbona Pass Picnic Area: 14.5 mi
- Navajo Museum: 15.7 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Twin Buttes. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sonsela Buttes | NNW 332° | 2,709 m | 17.4 mi |
| Chuska Peak | E 86° | 2,624 m | 6.7 mi |
| Zilditloi Mountain | WNW 302° | 2,604 m | 3.3 mi |
| White Cone | NNW 342° | 2,569 m | 22.5 mi |
| Fluted Rock | W 272° | 2,528 m | 16.3 mi |
| Deza Bluffs | E 81° | 2,519 m | 10.5 mi |
| Little White Cone | NNW 349° | 2,515 m | 17.9 mi |
| Piney Hill | SW 236° | 2,471 m | 14.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:20 | 18:54 | 19:28 |
| June solstice | 06:01 | 19:58 | 20:36 |
| September equinox | 07:05 | 18:40 | 19:14 |
| December solstice | 07:23 | 16:27 | 17:06 |
Local time (America/Denver).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 30 | 34 | 41 | 47 | 55 | 65 | 72 | 69 | 61 | 49 | 39 | 30 |
| Precip in | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 1.8 | 1.9 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Window Rock AP, 16 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 895941 — Twin Buttes, McKinley County, New Mexico.
OpenStreetMap element node/357581356
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