Whaleback
Whaleback rises to 3,573 m in California. Mount Stanford stands 4,260 m to the northeast, 9.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Glacier Ridge, a peak 1.8 miles away.
The story
Mountain in Kings Canyon National Park.
Wikidata Q49698945, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3,573 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Glacier Ridge: 1.8 mi
- Centennial Peak: 2.3 mi
- Copper Mine Peak: 2.5 mi
- Triple Divide Peak: 2.6 mi
- Milestone Mountain: 2.6 mi
- General Sherman Tree: 12.7 mi
- Tharp's Log: 12.7 mi
- Chief Sequoyah: 12.7 mi
- Congress Group: 12.8 mi
- McKinley Tree: 12.9 mi
- Tamarack Falls: 3.7 mi
- Upper Picket Creek Falls: 6.0 mi
- Lower Picket Creek Falls: 6.1 mi
- Upper Buck Creek Falls: 6.2 mi
- Tokopah Falls: 9.1 mi
- Old Big Arroyo Patrol Cabin: 7.6 mi
- Shorty's Sphinx Creek Cabin: 9.3 mi
- Shorty's Crowley Canyon Cabin: 9.7 mi
- Shorty's Bubbs Creek Cabin: 10.3 mi
- Shorty's Vidette Meadow Cabin: 11.1 mi
- Cold Spring: 13.2 mi
- Soda Spring: 14.0 mi
- Wall Spring: 14.4 mi
- SB23 intermittent spring: 14.6 mi
- Big Fern Springs: 14.9 mi
- Valhalla: 5.1 mi
- Ebersbacher Ledges: 15.8 mi
- Window Cliffs: 18.5 mi
- Muro Blanco: 19.3 mi
- Windy Cliffs: 20.1 mi
- Natural Arch: 20.6 mi
- Natural Bridge: 20.7 mi
- Whitney Portal Arch: 20.9 mi
- Lathe Arch: 22.5 mi
- Mobius Arch: 22.5 mi
- Bk 34 Mess Hall Garden: 21.7 mi
- Bk 12 Mess Hall Garden: 21.7 mi
- Japanese Garden: 21.8 mi
- Kado's Garden: 21.8 mi
- Arai Pond: 21.9 mi
- Pinewood Picnic Area: 13.6 mi
- Halstead Meadow Picnic Area: 14.2 mi
- Hospital Rock Picnic Site: 15.4 mi
- Whitney Portal Picnic Area: 16.4 mi
- Grizzly Falls Picnic Area: 16.8 mi
- Giant Forest Museum: 14.1 mi
- Eastern California Museum: 21.7 mi
- Mary Austin's House: 21.8 mi
- Manzanar National Historic Site Visitor Center: 22.3 mi
- Three Rivers Historical Museum: 24.0 mi
- General Grant Grove Section Kings Canyon Nat: 20.8 mi
- Merritt Park: 21.8 mi
- Independence Park: 21.8 mi
- Dehy Park: 21.9 mi
- Paiute Mural: 21.8 mi
- Miss Alabama: 24.1 mi
- Sandy Cove Beach: 23.2 mi
- Jumping Rock: 23.6 mi
- Kern Hot Spring: 12.6 mi
- Kearsarge: 16.9 mi
- Fort Independence Travel Plaza: 22.0 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.4 miles of Whaleback. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Stanford | NE 56° | 4,260 m | 9.1 mi |
| Gregory's Monument | ENE 57° | 4,254 m | 9.0 mi |
| Caltech Peak | ENE 62° | 4,217 m | 8.8 mi |
| Mount Kaweah | SSE 158° | 4,205 m | 7.8 mi |
| Red Kaweah | SSE 167° | 4,185 m | 6.4 mi |
| Michael's Pinnacle | SSE 167° | 4,170 m | 6.5 mi |
| Second Kaweah | SSE 162° | 4,166 m | 7.0 mi |
| Table Mountain | ENE 57° | 4,151 m | 3.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:32 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:37 | 19:38 | 20:17 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:18 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 07:03 | 16:02 | 16:43 |
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, 11 mi away.
Inside the official boundary of Kings Canyon National Park.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/7900152231
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