Mareloa

Cresent Bay Beach, California

Near Laguna Beach · 1.1 mi

In brief

Cresent Bay Beach is a beach 1.1 mi from Laguna Beach (California). The beach faces south-west and stretches for about 919 ft. OpenStreetMap reports a lifeguard post nearby, with no published hours. The nearest beaches are Picnic Beach (0.7 mi east), Bird Rock Beach (0.8 mi east) and Laguna Beach (1.3 mi south-east).

Tide

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Place characteristics

Distance to town
Laguna Beach · 1.1 mi
Cliffs nearby
364 ft

Practical information

RecordedNot documented

© OpenStreetMap · Oct 20, 2026 · check on site · Sources

Length
922 ft

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Today’s windows

Calculated at 11:14 AM · rules coast-v5

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    Shore gathering

    11:14 AM–02:14 PM · Check first

    Confidence 25 % · rules coast-v5

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    Family beach time

    02:00 PM–05:00 PM · Check first

    Confidence 0 % · rules coast-v5

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    Photography

    02:58 PM–04:58 PM · Check first

    Confidence 35 % · rules coast-v5

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    Sunset

    04:13 PM–05:43 PM · Check first

    Confidence 35 % · rules coast-v5

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    Beach run

    08:00 AM–09:30 AM · Check first

    Confidence 35 % · rules coast-v5

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    Coastal walk

    10:00 AM–12:00 PM · Check first

    Confidence 35 % · rules coast-v5

Beaches nearby

Discovery score: distance, available annual classification and catalogue quality. It is neither real-time health advice nor a safety conclusion.

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Country profile

Languages
English
Currency
US Dollar
Driving side
right

Wikidata · CC0 · Retrieved on Sep 18, 2026

Sources and method

Tide heights
Heights retain the vertical reference supplied by the source and are not an official hydrographic zero.
Sea temperature and conditions
Temperature and conditions come from a limited-resolution coastal model, not an observation at the beach. Do not use for navigation or to conclude that bathing is safe.
Beach characteristics
These place characteristics are recorded from the linked sources. They describe the place, not current conditions.

Source & freshness

© OpenStreetMap contributors — named coastal features, ODbL; geographic catalogue, not current bathing-health informationAging

Official catalogue · Bathing water quality

Method and source ↗Licence ↗
Copernicus DEM GLO-30 -- (c) DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; distributed via the AWS Open Data Registry (bucket copernicus-dem-30m).Fresh

Additional source

Method and source ↗
© ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortiumFresh

ESA WorldCover (land cover)

Method and source ↗Licence ↗
Lang, N., Jetz, W., Schindler, K., & Wegner, J. D. (2023). A high-resolution canopy height model of the Earth. Nature Ecology & Evolution. Data: https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000609802 (CC BY 4.0)Fresh

Tree canopy (documented dataset)

Method and source ↗
Bunting, P., Hilarides, L., Rosenqvist, A., Zanaga, D., Van De Kerchove, R., Lucas, R., Castro Brandao Vaz dos Santos, P. (2024). Global Mangrove Watch: Annual Mangrove Extent, version 4.0.19. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12756047 (CC BY 4.0)Fresh

Tree canopy (documented dataset)

Method and source ↗
Athanasiou, P., van Dongeren, A., Pronk, M., Giardino, A., Vousdoukas, M., Ranasinghe, R. (2024). Global database of Coastal Characteristics (GCC), version 1.1. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11072020 (described in https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2023-313) (CC BY 4.0)Fresh

Nearshore slope (documented dataset)

Method and source ↗

GeoNames · CC BY 4.0

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