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Sinai Spring

Sinai Spring, seen from above at true elevation

Sinai Spring is a spring in Florida, at a modelled elevation of 32 m. Sixteenth Hill stands 61 m to the north-northwest, 5.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Hill Springs, a spring 0.9 miles away. BIG BEND SCENIC BYWY passes 25 miles off. 140 named places lie within 25 miles, 2 of them named summits.

How to reach it

Coordinates30.66460, -84.91046

140 named places within 25 miles

Springs: 49
  • Hill Springs: 0.9 mi
  • King Spring: 2.0 mi
  • White Cave Spring: 2.4 mi
  • Jackson Blue Spring Apalachicola: 3.4 mi
  • Chattahoochee Spring: 4.3 mi
Parks: 44
  • Adam Tucker Wilson Memorial Park: 3.2 mi
  • West Bank Overlook: 3.7 mi
  • Palm Street Park: 4.1 mi
  • Rodden Berry City Park: 4.4 mi
  • Sneads Park: 4.4 mi
Nature reserves: 23
  • Lake Seminole Wildlife Management Area - River Junction: 7.4 mi
  • Apalachee Wildlife Management Area: 8.0 mi
  • Lake Seminole Wildlife Management Area - Ranger Station: 8.5 mi
  • Pine Hill Plantation: 11.0 mi
  • Lake Seminole Wildlife Management Area - Ten Mile Still: 11.4 mi
Historic sites: 12
  • Tank: 3.6 mi
  • Caboose: 4.7 mi
  • CSS Chattahoochee: 4.8 mi
  • Cannon: 12.2 mi
  • Camp Recovery Historic Marker: 12.3 mi
Museums: 4
  • Greensboro Depot Railroad Museum: 11.8 mi
  • Dezell House Museum: 12.0 mi
  • Panhandle Pioneer Settlement: 17.3 mi
  • Gadsden Arts Center & Museum: 20.6 mi
Peaks: 2
Attractions: 2
  • Sugar Mill: 21.0 mi
  • Caverns Visitors Center: 21.3 mi
Rest areas: 1
Cliffs: 1
Gardens: 1
  • Cane Field: 21.0 mi
Artworks: 1
  • CCC Worker: 21.3 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Sinai Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Sixteenth HillNNW 343°61 m5.5 mi
Hickory HillSSW 203°40 m3.5 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:4418:2018:51
June solstice05:3819:1119:46
September equinox06:2918:0618:38
December solstice06:3416:0716:43

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Sep–May.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F525562687681838279706054
Precip in4.04.55.03.73.15.15.14.94.13.13.74.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Marianna Muni AP, 20 mi away.

Months at or above the year’s average flow: Jan–Apr — fullest in Mar, leanest in Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Mean cfs27,30633,14638,53233,17820,82115,81316,15914,36512,13312,09613,17120,374

USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Apalachicola River AT Chattahoochee Fla, 4 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.

  • woodland pinkroot4 obs
  • Baldwin's Milkvine4 obs
  • Underwood's trillium4 obs
  • Common Box Turtle3 obs
  • thickleaf phlox3 obs
  • Orange Azalea3 obs
  • lanceleaf wakerobin3 obs
  • Southern Two-lined Salamander2 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/3164097413

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