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Moss Beach

Moss Beach is a coastal census-designated place in San Mateo County, California, with a year 2020 census population of 3,214. Located in Moss Beach are the , a marine sanctuary; the Half Moon Bay Airport, the historic ; and the Seal Cove Inn, a destination lodging property.
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  • Type: Village with 3,100 residents
  • Description: census-designated place in California, United States
  • Also known as: “Moss Beach, CA” and “Moss Beach, California”
  • Postal code: 94038

Places of Interest

Highlights include Eddie Andreini Sr. Airfield and Point Montara Light Station.

Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 4.0.
, officially Half Moon Bay Airport, is a public airport in , six miles northwest of , United States. The airport is on the Pacific Coast, south of .

Lighthouse
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Point Montara Light is a lighthouse in , , on the southern approach to the , approximately 25 miles south of San Francisco.

Nature reserve
Photo: Elaine with Grey Cats, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fitzgerald Marine Reserve is a marine reserve in on the Pacific Ocean, located just north of and Mavericks in the community of Moss Beach.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Montara and Princeton.

Village
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is a census-designated place in , , United States. The population was 2,833 at the 2020 census. Nearby communities include Moss Beach and Princeton-by-the-Sea.

Hamlet
Princeton-by-the-Sea is an unincorporated community on the coast of . The ZIP code is 94019 and the community is in area code 650. is situated 2 miles southeast of Moss Beach.

Moss Beach

Latitude
37.5274° or 37° 31′ 39″ north
Longitude
-122.5133° or 122° 30′ 48″ west
Population
3,100
Elevation
62 feet (19 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US ZGA
Open location code
849VGFGP+XM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150947168
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
5375034
Wiki­data ID
Q3295933
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Volapük—“Moss Beach” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Moss Beach”
  • Bulgarian: “Мос Бийч”
  • Catalan: “Moss Beach”
  • Cebuano: “Moss Beach”
  • Chechen: “Мосс-Бич”
  • Chinese: “Moss Beach”
  • Chinese: “莫斯比奇”
  • Croatian: “Moss Beach”
  • Dutch: “Moss Beach”
  • French: “Moss Beach”
  • German: “Moss Beach”
  • Gilaki: “موس بیچ”
  • Irish: “Moss Beach”
  • Italian: “Moss Beach”
  • Ladin: “Moss Beach”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Moss Beach”
  • Newari: “मस बीच (क्यालिफोर्निया)”
  • Newari: “मस बीच, क्यालिफोर्निया”
  • Newari: “मस बीच”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Moss Beach”
  • Persian: “ماس بیچ، کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “ماس بیچ”
  • Polish: “Moss Beach”
  • Portuguese: “Moss Beach”
  • Serbian: “Мос Бич”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Moss Beach, California”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Moss Beach”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ماس بیچ، کالیفورنیا”
  • Spanish: “Moss Beach”
  • Tatar: “Мосс-Бич”
  • Turkish: “Moss Beach”
  • Ukrainian: “Мосс-Біч”
  • Volapük: “Moss Beach”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Moss Beach”. Photo: Sallyrob, Public domain.