Daylight Spring
Daylight Spring is a spring in California, at a modelled elevation of 1,366 m. Grapevine Peak stands 2,663 m to the northwest, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Willow Spring, a spring 2.3 miles away. Death Valley Scenic Byway passes 12 miles off. 116 named places lie within 25 miles, 40 of them named summits.
How to reach it
- 11.5 mi off the Death Valley Scenic Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Devil's Corn Field · 14 mi
- Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes · 16 mi
- Wildlife Viewing Platform · 23 mi
- Zabriskie Point · 26 mi
116 named places within 25 miles
- Willow Spring: 2.3 mi
- Hole in the Rock Spring: 3.5 mi
- Keane Spring: 3.6 mi
- Monarch Spring: 4.7 mi
- Lostman Spring: 5.2 mi
- Corkscrew Peak: 3.9 mi
- Thimble Peak: 5.9 mi
- Death Valley Buttes: 6.5 mi
- Sharp Peak: 6.9 mi
- Chloride Cliff: 7.2 mi
- Chloride City: 6.4 mi
- Leadfield: 7.8 mi
- Bullfrog: 9.0 mi
- Rhyolite: 9.9 mi
- Gold Center: 10.9 mi
- Rhyolite Bottle House: 9.6 mi
- Rhyolite School Ruins: 9.7 mi
- Rhyolite Ghost Casino: 9.9 mi
- Harmony Borax Works: 21.6 mi
- Mission Ruins: 23.9 mi
- Rhyolite Ghost Town: 9.8 mi
- Mesquite Dunes: 13.4 mi
- Salt Creek: 14.0 mi
- Burnt Wagons: 17.1 mi
- Furnace Creek Ranch Stables: 23.4 mi
- Lady Desert: The Venus of Nevada: 9.4 mi
- The Last Supper: 9.4 mi
- Ghost Rider: 9.4 mi
- Sit Here!: 9.4 mi
- Goldwell Open Air Museum: 9.4 mi
- Beatty Museum & Historical Society: 12.6 mi
- Borax Museum Exhibits: 23.3 mi
- Borax Museum: 23.3 mi
- Cottonwood Park: 12.8 mi
- Robert A. and Florence Revert Park: 12.8 mi
- Date Grove: 23.1 mi
- Crescent Cliff: 15.5 mi
- Date Grove Picnic Area: 23.2 mi
- Death Valley National Park: 24.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Daylight Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grapevine Peak | NW 316° | 2,663.3 m | 16.9 mi |
| Wahguyhe Peak | NW 318° | 2,629.8 m | 14.0 mi |
| Mount Palmer | NW 307° | 2,409 m | 13.5 mi |
| Tucki Mountain | SSW 208° | 2,050.1 m | 22.7 mi |
| Thimble Peak | WNW 286° | 1,936 m | 5.9 mi |
| Bare Mountain | ENE 76° | 1,925.4 m | 15.0 mi |
| Bare Mountain Peak | ENE 67° | 1,838 m | 13.8 mi |
| Meiklejohn Peak | ENE 67° | 1,795 m | 16.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:52 | 18:26 | 19:00 |
| June solstice | 05:30 | 19:32 | 20:11 |
| September equinox | 06:36 | 18:12 | 18:46 |
| December solstice | 06:58 | 15:55 | 16:36 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–Apr.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 54 | 60 | 68 | 76 | 86 | 96 | 102 | 100 | 92 | 77 | 62 | 52 |
| Precip in | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Stovepipe Wells 1 SW, 17 mi away.
Inside the official boundary of Death Valley National Park. Quietest months by visitation: Sep and Jun; busiest: Mar.
NPS visitation statistics, monthly averages 2021–2025 (2020 excluded).
- Layne milkvetch16 obs
- Desert Paintbrush13 obs
- winding mariposa lily12 obs
- Mojave Woodyaster12 obs
- apricot globemallow10 obs
- Desert Trumpet10 obs
- Golden Suncup10 obs
- Fremont's syntrichopappus10 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/1145598392
Day trips start here
- Death Valley National Park · 25 mi
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