United States / California
Manhattan Beach
Manhattan Beach is a coastal resort area in California, United States. Its longest mapped beach stretches about 3.4 km and has a sand surface. The sea averages 20.2 °C in August, its warmest month, and 14.8 °C in February; it never reaches 21 °C on average.
Average sea surface temperature by month. Current month outlined.
The beach is tagged as supervised.
Services in the resort
- 108Restaurants, cafés & bars
- 3Public toilets
- –Showers
- 3Drinking water
- 36Car parks
- –Lifeguard stations
- 3Hotels & guesthouses
- 1Campsites
- 9Grocery shops
- 23Bus stops (1.5 km)
- 1Historic sites
Food and drink mapped within 1 km: 78 restaurants, 18 cafés and 12 bars. Accommodation: 3 hotels and guesthouses.
Counted within 1 km of the beach (bus stops 1.5 km) from OpenStreetMap features and Overture Maps places, release of 2026-10. Unmapped does not mean absent.
Month by month
October at Manhattan Beach
Beach-day index 8.1/10 · United States median 4.5
| Measure | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sea °C | 14.9 °C | 14.8 °C | 14.8 °C | 15.1 °C | 16.6 °C | 18.2 °C | 19.7 °C | 20.2 °C | 20.0 °C | 19.0 °C | 17.3 °C | 15.6 °C |
| High °C | 17° | 17° | 19° | 21° | 23° | 27° | 30° | 30° | 29° | 25° | 21° | 17° |
| Low °C | 7° | 7° | 8° | 9° | 12° | 14° | 17° | 18° | 17° | 14° | 10° | 7° |
| Rain mm | 73 | 75 | 42 | 19 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 25 | 65 |
| Cloud % | 52 | 54 | 56 | 52 | 59 | 68 | 63 | 55 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 52 |
| Wind m/s | 3.4 | 3.2 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 2.8 | 2.5 | 2.4 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.6 | 3.0 | 3.3 |
| Daylight h | 10.1 | 11.0 | 11.9 | 13.0 | 13.9 | 14.4 | 14.2 | 13.5 | 12.4 | 11.4 | 10.4 | 9.9 |
| Record high/low | 30°/-1° | 30°/-1° | 31°/2° | 35°/2° | 35°/6° | 41°/9° | 42°/13° | 39°/13° | 42°/11° | 38°/7° | 33°/1° | 28°/1° |
| Beach index | 3.0 | 3.0 | 4.1 | 5.0 | 6.6 | 7.8 | 8.3 | 8.6 | 8.6 | 8.1 | 5.8 | 3.1 |
Long-term monthly averages: air from NASA POWER (2001–2020), sea from NOAA OISST (1991–2020); records are the extremes of 2001–2020. How the index works.
When to go
The beach-day index peaks in July–October; August scores 8.6/10 with highs of 30 °C, sea at 20.2 °C and 1 mm of rain.
In August that is 0.5 points above the median of the 2,466 beaches in United States covered by this atlas.
At its warmest the water here is 2.3 °C cooler than the United States median for August (22.5 °C).
Across the year the sea averages 17.2 °C, cooler than 63% of the coastal beaches in the atlas.
February is the wettest month (75 mm) and June the driest (1 mm); the yearly total is about 330 mm.
Daylight runs from 9.9 hours in December to 14.4 hours in June; in mid-August the sun rises at 06:14 and sets at 19:42 local time.
Orientation, sun and shore
The shore faces west-south-west (245°). Open water fills about 44% of the horizon close by, which makes it an open stretch of shore.
The sun sets over the sea in every month; in mid-June it goes down at 20:05 local time on a bearing of 299°.
Straight out to the west-south-west there is open water for more than 2,000 km, so the beach is exposed to long ocean swell.
About 1 km offshore the sea is roughly 13 m deep and 34 m at 3 km. Behind the beach the ground is about 40 m above sea level 500 m inland and 44 m at 1.5 km.
Within 1 km, the land is 79% built-up land, 13% bare ground, sand or rock and 6% tree cover (satellite land-cover map, 2021): an urban beach. Water makes up 44% of that circle.
- Built 79%
- Bare 13%
- Tree 6%
Land cover: ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m). Orientation from OpenStreetMap land polygons sampled in 36 directions; depths and heights from the GEBCO 2020 grid (about 450 m cells), indicative only.
Getting there
| Airport | Code | Distance | Direction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles International Airport Los Angeles | LAX | 5.8 km | north |
| Jack Northrop Field Hawthorne Municipal Airport Hawthorne | HHR | 8.2 km | north-east |
| Long Beach International Airport Long Beach | LGB | 25.9 km | east |
Straight-line distances from the beach; road distance is usually 20–40% longer.
Local transport: 23 bus stops within 1.5 km and 36 mapped car parks within 1 km.
12 towns and villages of 1,000+ people lie within 10 km (about 619.8K residents); within 30 km there are 74 (about 7.6M).
Photos
From above
Around the beach
Attractions & museums
- Roundhouse Marine Lab & Aquarium attraction 360 m SW
- Roundhouse Aquarium, Manhattan Beach, Ca. attraction 370 m S
Historic sites
- Public Art Light Gate monument 30 m W
Lighthouses & piers
- Manhattan Beach Pier pier 480 m SW
Campsites
- Champ Camp 940 m NW
Map and nearby beaches
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| Beach | Distance | Warmest sea | Length | Surface |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manhattan Beach | – | 20.2 °C | 3.4 km | Sand |
| Redondo Beach | 6.4 km SE | 20.2 °C | 2.6 km | Sand |
| Venice Beach | 11.1 km NW | 20.2 °C | 4.5 km | Sand |
- Redondo Beach6.4 km SECompare
- Venice Beach11.1 km NWCompare
Data on this page
- Air temperature, rain, cloud, wind, humidity: NASA POWER climatology 2001–2020, 0.5° grid.
- Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 monthly normals 1991–2020, nearest ocean cell 4.2 km away.
- Beach outline, surface, rules and public facilities: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), feature r6580308; restaurants, cafés, bars and lodging: Overture Maps places (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).
- Towns and time zone: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Airports: OurAirports (public domain). Sunrise and sunset: NOAA solar equations.
- Photos: Wikimedia Commons, author and licence under each image.
- Satellite view: Copernicus Sentinel-2 (ESA), scene S2C_11SLT_20251029_0_L2A.
- Orientation: OpenStreetMap land polygons (ODbL). Depth and terrain: GEBCO 2020 grid.
- Settlements: GeoNames places with 1,000+ inhabitants.
- Land cover: ESA WorldCover 2021, 10 m (CC BY 4.0).
- Search popularity: about 201K Google searches a month for the name (KeywordTool, October 2026).
Data compiled 2026-10-13. Something wrong? Report a data error.