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website can help you to find your way around the night-time sky. In addition to detailed
sky charts, their website will help you find planets, asteriods, comets, satellites and their tracks across the sky.
To give accurate results, Heavens-Above requires the latitude and longitude of your location. As a starting point, when we link to Heavens-Above,
we pass this GPS location for Belvedere Heights:
33.983627, -117.310876
Once you're on the Heavens-Above website, you can improve its accuracy by giving a more precise longitude and latitude as your actual position.
Open the Heavens-Above website centered on Belvedere Heights
Bird Watching ...
We enjoy finding new spots for bird watching and we use the eBird website for local sighting reports and to help identify hotspots.
The eBird website is organized on a county-by-county basis. We have selected Riverside County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found four communities that are also named Belvedere Heights.
Within California, the name Belvedere Heights is unique.
Beyond California, we know of four communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these four communities, three are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Connecticut
New Haven County
Although located in New Haven County, we don't know the location within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the New Haven County community of Belvedere Heights.
Maryland
Anne Arundel County
This Belvedere Heights is located in Anne Arundel County and lies 2,272 miles [3,656.4 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Belvedere Heights that is located in Riverside County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anne Arundel County community of Belvedere Heights.
Quebec
This Belvedere Heights lies 2,501 miles [4,025 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Belvedere Heights that is located in Riverside County.
West Virginia
Jefferson County
This Belvedere Heights is located in Jefferson County and lies 2,199 miles [3,538.9 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Belvedere Heights that is located in Riverside County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Belvedere Heights.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Belvedere Heights ...
As we travel, we always see a community with a name that gives pause. While there are names which are interesting or familiar, some catch our attention or strike our fancy. We always wonder about such a name. If time permits and the community is not too far, we'll usually try to make a side-trip.
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers, Almanacs & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Belvedere Heights to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Belvedere Heights and extending to:
Sacramento, which is the State Capital of California, lies 393 miles [632.5 km]<1> to the northwest (NW). If you could drive a straight line from Belvedere Heights to Sacramento, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 23 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 16 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 2,244 miles [3,611.4 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take 5 days, a buggy would take 88 days and walking would take 128 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 7,549 miles [12,148.9 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 8,318 miles [13,386.5 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 6,299 miles [10,137.3 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Belvedere Heights) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>
While we have tried to pick reasonable speeds, the rate of travel is very theoretical - obstacles like fences, hills, lakes, river crossings and rest stops have been ignored. When we say 'Days' of travel, we're assuming 8 hours of travel per day.
<4>
The shortest line can be visualized by stretching a string on a Globe from Point A to Point B - this is known as a Great Circle Route. Where you might expect the shortest route from Belvedere Heights to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Belvedere Heights. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.9836, Longitude: -117.3109 In this case, the coordinates for Belvedere Heights have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 335.458 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 335.188 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 325.093 degrees.