Saturday Spring
Saturday Spring is a spring in California, at a modelled elevation of 1,069 m. Piute Peak stands 2,565 m to the east-southeast, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Saturday Peak, a peak 0.5 miles away.
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Saturday Peak: 0.5 mi
- Ball Mountain: 3.5 mi
- Pine Mountain: 4.9 mi
- Mount Adelaide: 5.6 mi
- Burke Hill: 7.6 mi
- Willow Spring: 0.9 mi
- Democrat Spring: 2.0 mi
- Oscar Meyer Spring: 2.5 mi
- Tunnel Spring: 3.2 mi
- Prefedio Spring: 3.2 mi
- Father Garces Monument: 9.2 mi
- Rivers Edge Park: 9.5 mi
- Kern River County Park: 9.5 mi
- Solera Gardens Park: 10.0 mi
- Kern River State Park: 11.2 mi
- Live Oak Picnic Area: 2.2 mi
- Upper Richbar Picnic Area: 2.2 mi
- Lower Richbar Picnic Area: 2.3 mi
- PICNIC TABLE: 21.7 mi
- PICNIC TABLE: 21.8 mi
- checkpoint: 14.9 mi
- woody rd: 15.2 mi
- Coso Mines: 17.5 mi
- Bakersfield Speedway: 18.1 mi
- Bakersfield Jam: 19.8 mi
- California Living Museum: 11.0 mi
- Silver City Ghost Town: 14.0 mi
- Kern County Museum Historical Reference Library: 18.9 mi
- Kern County Museum and Pioneer Village: 18.9 mi
- Kern Valley Museum: 23.5 mi
- Kern Veterans Memorial: 19.0 mi
- Martyr's Rock: 21.0 mi
- The Cross on the Loop: 23.4 mi
- Tehachapi Loop Overlook: 23.9 mi
- Bear Vally Veteran's Memorial: 24.2 mi
- Lake Ming County Park: 10.2 mi
- Rattlesnake Canyon: 12.0 mi
- CSLC Open Space: 16.9 mi
- Chalk Cliff: 10.9 mi
- Mon Bluff: 13.8 mi
- Father Francisco Garces: 19.1 mi
- North Beardsley Skatepark: 19.4 mi
- Rio Bravo: 24.2 mi
- Stickneys Ferry: 24.4 mi
- Miracle Hot Springs: 11.2 mi
- Sister City Gardens: 18.9 mi
- 4 Island Lake Beach: 24.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.8 miles of Saturday Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Piute Peak | ESE 102° | 2,565 m | 18.6 mi |
| Sunday Peak | NNE 21° | 2,531 m | 20.3 mi |
| Brown Peak | E 96° | 2,466 m | 16.4 mi |
| Liebel Peak | E 90° | 2,452 m | 17.8 mi |
| Inspiration Point | E 89° | 2,387 m | 20.1 mi |
| Breckenridge Mountain | ESE 118° | 2,298 m | 8.3 mi |
| Black Mountain | NNE 33° | 2,267 m | 19.4 mi |
| Shirley Peak | NNE 32° | 2,164 m | 16.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:59 | 18:33 | 19:07 |
| June solstice | 05:41 | 19:36 | 20:14 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:20 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 07:01 | 16:07 | 16:46 |
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 | 42 | 43 | 46 | 50 | 56 | 64 | 71 | 70 | 65 | 56 | 47 | 41 |
| Precip in | 3.7 | 3.5 | 3.1 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 1.9 | 3.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Glennville, 15 mi away.
Months at or above the year’s average flow: Mar–Aug — fullest in Jun, leanest in Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 244 | 252 | 292 | 330 | 352 | 360 | 349 | 324 | 254 | 232 | 214 | 231 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Kern R NO 1 Conduit NR Democrat Springs CA, 1 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.
- Butterfly Mariposa Lily18 obs
- Elegant Clarkia9 obs
- caterpillar scorpionweed8 obs
- California buckeye8 obs
- rose-flowered larkspur8 obs
- Pacific poison oak7 obs
- Lacy phacelia7 obs
- Sacred Datura7 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/9421140978
Day trips start here
- Kern County · 18 mi
- Bakersfield · 20 mi
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