The Beverly Hills plate. Relief from Copernicus GLO-30; rivers and lakes from USGS NHD; watersheds from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset; roads and city limits from Census TIGER 2024.
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33° on Nov. 17, 1958, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1933. Next is 41° in 1935.
Beverly Hills’s center stands about 310 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 110 ft to 1,340 ft, a difference of 1,230 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Saddle Peak, about 2,770 ft, 15 miles west.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Quaternary alluvium and marine deposits (coarse-detrital), from the Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 6 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 8×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Coarse-detrital. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Granodiorite. Age: Permian to Tertiary, 2.6 to 260 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone, mudstone. Age: Oligocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 34 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Orthogneiss. Age: Paleoproterozoic to Miocene, 5.3 to 2,500 million years old. About 0.8 mi of the line.
Basalt, andesite. Age: Late Oligocene to Late Miocene, 8 to 25 million years old. About 0.6 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR; rock from the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation.
A raindrop that lands in Beverly Hills reaches the Pacific Ocean by way of Ballona Creek: about 6 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Beverly Hills; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Beverly Hills has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate. Summer afternoons average 79° in August; winter nights fall to about 51° in February. About 18 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Beverly Hills normally reaches 73° and falls to 56°. The record high is 90°, in 2013; the record low 41°, in 1935. The most rain on this date, 1.71 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1933 at U C L A, 2 miles west-southwest, 120 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
