Mareloa

Lighthouse Field State Beach, California

Near Santa Cruz · 1.5 mi

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    Place characteristics

    Distance to town
    Santa Cruz · 1.6 mi
    shore_axis_deg
    78

    Practical information

    RecordedNot documented

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

    Length
    938 ft

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    Today’s windows

    Calculated at 12:31 AM · rules coast-v5

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      Shore gathering

      12:31 AM–03:31 AM · Check first

      Confidence 25 % · 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

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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

      03:09 PM–05:09 PM · Check first

      Confidence 35 % · rules coast-v5

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      Sunset

      04:24 PM–05:54 PM · Check first

      Confidence 35 % · rules coast-v5

    Beaches nearby

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    English
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    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 ↗

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    Tide unavailable: the activities stay unknown.

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