United States / California
Pebble Beach
Pebble Beach is a coastal resort area in California, United States. Its longest mapped beach (Carmel Beach) stretches about 1.5 km. The sea averages 14.7 °C in September, its warmest month, and 12.1 °C in April; it never reaches 21 °C on average.
Average sea surface temperature by month. Current month outlined.
The sea peaks at 14.7 °C in September. Most swimmers find water below 20 °C cold; a wetsuit is common here.
The mapped beach is tagged dog = “yes”.
OpenStreetMap shows no lifeguard station within 1 km. Seasonal lifeguard posts are often unmapped, so check on site.
Services in the resort
- 9Restaurants, cafés & bars
- 1Public toilets
- –Showers
- 14Car parks
- –Lifeguard stations
- 4Hotels & guesthouses
- 1Bus stops (1.5 km)
Food and drink mapped within 1 km: 5 restaurants, 1 café and 3 bars. Accommodation: 4 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 Pebble Beach
Beach-day index 5.6/10 · United States median 4.5
| Measure | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sea °C | 12.7 °C | 12.6 °C | 12.5 °C | 12.1 °C | 12.1 °C | 12.6 °C | 13.7 °C | 14.4 °C | 14.7 °C | 14.4 °C | 13.8 °C | 13.0 °C |
| High °C | 14° | 14° | 16° | 17° | 20° | 23° | 25° | 25° | 25° | 22° | 18° | 14° |
| Low °C | 5° | 6° | 6° | 7° | 8° | 10° | 11° | 11° | 11° | 10° | 7° | 5° |
| Rain mm | 92 | 92 | 80 | 40 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 26 | 54 | 114 |
| Cloud % | 62 | 64 | 66 | 62 | 63 | 58 | 77 | 76 | 58 | 53 | 54 | 62 |
| Wind m/s | 2.5 | 2.7 | 2.6 | 2.8 | 2.8 | 2.8 | 2.5 | 2.4 | 2.3 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.7 |
| Daylight h | 9.9 | 10.8 | 11.9 | 13.1 | 14.1 | 14.6 | 14.4 | 13.6 | 12.5 | 11.3 | 10.3 | 9.7 |
| Record high/low | 25°/-3° | 25°/-0° | 27°/1° | 34°/2° | 36°/5° | 38°/7° | 40°/8° | 38°/9° | 42°/8° | 38°/5° | 30°/-1° | 24°/-2° |
| Beach index | 2.6 | 2.6 | 2.7 | 3.1 | 4.5 | 5.9 | 6.6 | 6.7 | 6.9 | 5.6 | 3.3 | 2.5 |
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–September; September scores 6.9/10 with highs of 25 °C, sea at 14.7 °C and 4 mm of rain.
In September that is 0.5 points below the median of the 2,466 beaches in United States covered by this atlas.
At its warmest the water here is 6.2 °C cooler than the United States median for September (20.9 °C).
Across the year the sea averages 13.2 °C, cooler than 80% of the coastal beaches in the atlas.
December is the wettest month (114 mm) and July the driest (1 mm); the yearly total is about 520 mm.
Daylight runs from 9.7 hours in December to 14.6 hours in June; in mid-September the sun rises at 06:49 and sets at 19:17 local time.
Orientation, sun and shore
The shore faces south (185°). Open water fills about 28% of the horizon close by, which makes it an open stretch of shore.
At no time of year does the sun set over the sea here: sunset bearings run from 241° to 300°, behind the land.
Straight out to the south 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 11 m deep and 89 m at 3 km. Behind the beach the ground is about 40 m above sea level 500 m inland and 111 m at 1.5 km.
Within 1 km, the land is 57% tree cover, 27% grassland and 15% built-up land (satellite land-cover map, 2021): a partly built-up setting. Water makes up 31% of that circle.
- Tree 57%
- Grass 27%
- Built 15%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monterey Regional Airport Monterey | MRY | 9.2 km | east |
| Mineta San Jose International Airport San Jose | SJC | 88.4 km | north |
| San Carlos Airport San Carlos | SQL | 109 km | north |
Straight-line distances from the beach; road distance is usually 20–40% longer.
Local transport: 1 bus stop within 1.5 km and 14 mapped car parks within 1 km.
5 towns and villages of 1,000+ people lie within 10 km (about 85.4K residents); within 30 km there are 11 (about 278.3K).
Photos
From above
Around the beach
Islands in view
- Pescadero Rocks 540 m S
Lighthouses & piers
- Stillwater Pier pier 160 m SE
Map
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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 8.9 km away.
- Beach outline, surface, rules and public facilities: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), feature r7036987; restaurants, cafés, bars and lodging: Overture Maps places (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).
- Water body, status and length: Wikidata (CC0).
- 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 S2B_10SEF_20250123_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 301K Google searches a month for the name (KeywordTool, October 2026).
Data compiled 2026-10-13. Something wrong? Report a data error.