The Carmel Valley Village 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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88° on Nov. 15, 2008, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1968. Next is 82° in 2005.
Carmel Valley Village’s center stands about 840 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 220 ft to 2,160 ft, a difference of 1,940 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Ventana Double Cone, about 4,800 ft, 13 miles south.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 5×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Granodiorite, quartz-monzonite. Age: Early Cretaceous to Late Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Miocene to Pleistocene, less than 23 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sandstone, mudstone. Age: Oligocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 34 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Schist, gneiss. Age: Paleoproterozoic to Cretaceous, 66 to 2,500 million years old. About 2 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 Carmel Valley Village reaches the Pacific Ocean by way of the Carmel: about 13 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Carmel Valley Village; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Carmel Valley Village has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate. Summer afternoons average 71° in September; winter nights fall to about 43° in January. About 16 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Carmel Valley Village normally reaches 66° and falls to 46°. The record high is 85°, in 2008; the record low 36°, in 1971. The most rain on this date, 0.83 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1968 at Monterey Peninsul Airport, 10 miles northwest, 680 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
