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mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Valley in Northern California, United States</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For the wine region in the same area, see <a href="/wiki/Santa_Clara_Valley_AVA" title="Santa Clara Valley AVA">Santa Clara Valley AVA</a>. For the valley in Southern California, see <a href="/wiki/Santa_Clara_River_Valley" title="Santa Clara River Valley">Santa Clara River Valley</a>.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"Valley of the Heart's Delight" redirects here. For the 2006 film, see <a href="/wiki/Valley_of_the_Heart%27s_Delight_(film)" title="Valley of the Heart's Delight (film)">Valley of the Heart's Delight (film)</a>.</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard" style="line-height: 1.5em;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above fn org" style="background-color: #e7dcc3;">Santa Clara Valley</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><i>Valle de Santa Clara</i> (<a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a>)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><div style="background-color:white;border-collapse:collapse;border:1px solid white;width:270px;display:table;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><div style="display:table-row"><div style="display:table-cell;border-top:0;padding:2px 0 0 2px"><div style="display:table;background-color:white;border-collapse:collapse"><div style="display:table-row"><div style="display:table-cell;border-top:0;padding:0 2px 2px 0"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:SJ_skyline_at_night_horizontal.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/SJ_skyline_at_night_horizontal.jpg/270px-SJ_skyline_at_night_horizontal.jpg" decoding="async" width="270" height="85" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/SJ_skyline_at_night_horizontal.jpg/405px-SJ_skyline_at_night_horizontal.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/SJ_skyline_at_night_horizontal.jpg/540px-SJ_skyline_at_night_horizontal.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4148" data-file-height="1304" /></a></span></div></div></div><div style="display:table;background-color:white;border-collapse:collapse"><div style="display:table-row"><div style="display:table-cell;border-top:0;padding:0 2px 2px 0"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Stanford_University_Main_Quad_May_2011_001_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Stanford_University_Main_Quad_May_2011_001_%28cropped%29.jpg/134px-Stanford_University_Main_Quad_May_2011_001_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="134" height="85" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Stanford_University_Main_Quad_May_2011_001_%28cropped%29.jpg/201px-Stanford_University_Main_Quad_May_2011_001_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Stanford_University_Main_Quad_May_2011_001_%28cropped%29.jpg/268px-Stanford_University_Main_Quad_May_2011_001_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3494" data-file-height="2212" /></a></span></div><div style="display:table-cell;border-top:0;padding:0 2px 2px 0"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Friday_May_10,_130_365_(8761584621).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Friday_May_10%2C_130_365_%288761584621%29.jpg/134px-Friday_May_10%2C_130_365_%288761584621%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="134" height="85" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Friday_May_10%2C_130_365_%288761584621%29.jpg/201px-Friday_May_10%2C_130_365_%288761584621%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Friday_May_10%2C_130_365_%288761584621%29.jpg/268px-Friday_May_10%2C_130_365_%288761584621%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5049" data-file-height="3210" /></a></span></div></div></div><div style="display:table;background-color:white;border-collapse:collapse"><div style="display:table-row"><div style="display:table-cell;border-top:0;padding:0 2px 2px 0"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Almaden_Lake_Park_1.2_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Almaden_Lake_Park_1.2_%28cropped%29.jpg/134px-Almaden_Lake_Park_1.2_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="134" height="91" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Almaden_Lake_Park_1.2_%28cropped%29.jpg/201px-Almaden_Lake_Park_1.2_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Almaden_Lake_Park_1.2_%28cropped%29.jpg/268px-Almaden_Lake_Park_1.2_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3648" data-file-height="2471" /></a></span></div><div style="display:table-cell;border-top:0;padding:0 2px 2px 0"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Alviso,_San_Jose_1_(cropped).jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Alviso%2C_San_Jose_1_%28cropped%29.jpeg/134px-Alviso%2C_San_Jose_1_%28cropped%29.jpeg" decoding="async" width="134" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Alviso%2C_San_Jose_1_%28cropped%29.jpeg/201px-Alviso%2C_San_Jose_1_%28cropped%29.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Alviso%2C_San_Jose_1_%28cropped%29.jpeg/268px-Alviso%2C_San_Jose_1_%28cropped%29.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="1810" data-file-height="1215" /></a></span></div></div></div><div style="display:table;background-color:white;border-collapse:collapse"><div style="display:table-row"><div style="display:table-cell;border-top:0;padding:0 2px 2px 0"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:AlumRockViewSiliconValley_w.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/AlumRockViewSiliconValley_w.jpg/270px-AlumRockViewSiliconValley_w.jpg" decoding="async" width="270" height="60" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/AlumRockViewSiliconValley_w.jpg/405px-AlumRockViewSiliconValley_w.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/AlumRockViewSiliconValley_w.jpg/540px-AlumRockViewSiliconValley_w.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5891" data-file-height="1308" /></a></span></div></div></div></div></div></div> <div style="font-size:95%"><b>Clockwise from the top left</b>:<br /> <a href="/wiki/Downtown_San_Jose" title="Downtown San Jose">Downtown San Jose</a> skyline; Hillsides in <a href="/wiki/Morgan_Hill" class="mw-redirect" title="Morgan Hill">Morgan Hill</a>; <a href="/wiki/Alviso,_San_Jose" title="Alviso, San Jose">Alviso, San Jose</a>; View of Santa Clara Valley; <a href="/wiki/Almaden_Reservoir" title="Almaden Reservoir">Almaden Reservoir</a> in <a href="/wiki/South_San_Jose" title="South San Jose">South San Jose</a>; <a href="/wiki/Stanford_University" title="Stanford University">Stanford University</a> in <a href="/wiki/Stanford,_California" title="Stanford, California">Stanford</a>.</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Relief_map_of_Santa_Clara_Valley.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Relief_map_of_Santa_Clara_Valley.png/272px-Relief_map_of_Santa_Clara_Valley.png" decoding="async" width="272" height="312" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Relief_map_of_Santa_Clara_Valley.png/408px-Relief_map_of_Santa_Clara_Valley.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Relief_map_of_Santa_Clara_Valley.png/544px-Relief_map_of_Santa_Clara_Valley.png 2x" data-file-width="681" data-file-height="780" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Location in California</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Length</th><td class="infobox-data">90 miles (145 km) northwest–southeast</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #e7dcc3;">Geography</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Location</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>, United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Borders on</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay" title="San Francisco Bay">San Francisco Bay</a> (north), <a href="/wiki/Santa_Cruz_Mountains" title="Santa Cruz Mountains">Santa Cruz Mountains</a> (southwest), <a href="/wiki/Diablo_Range" title="Diablo Range">Diablo Range</a> (east)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system" title="Geographic coordinate system">Coordinates</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Santa_Clara_Valley&params=37_22_01_N_121_59_02_W_source:kolossus-nowiki_type:river"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">37°22′01″N</span> <span class="longitude">121°59′02″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">37.36694°N 121.98389°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">37.36694; -121.98389</span></span></span></a></span></span> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Santa Clara Valley</b> (<a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a>: <i>Valle de Santa Clara</i>)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is a <a href="/wiki/Geologic_trough" class="mw-redirect" title="Geologic trough">geologic trough</a> in <a href="/wiki/Northern_California" title="Northern California">Northern California</a> that extends 90 miles (140 km) south–southeast from <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a> to <a href="/wiki/Hollister,_California" title="Hollister, California">Hollister</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Longitudinal_valley" title="Longitudinal valley">longitudinal valley</a> is bordered on the west by the <a href="/wiki/Santa_Cruz_Mountains" title="Santa Cruz Mountains">Santa Cruz Mountains</a> and on the east by the <a href="/wiki/Diablo_Range" title="Diablo Range">Diablo Range</a>; the two coastal ranges meet south of Hollister. The <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay" title="San Francisco Bay">San Francisco Bay</a> borders the valley to the north, and fills much of the northern third of the valley.<sup id="cite_ref-Poland,_Ireland_1988_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Poland,_Ireland_1988-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The valley floor is an <a href="/wiki/Alluvial_plain" title="Alluvial plain">alluvial plain</a> that formed in the <a href="/wiki/Graben" title="Graben">graben</a> (tectonic depression) between the <a href="/wiki/San_Andreas_Fault" title="San Andreas Fault">San Andreas Fault</a> to the west and the <a href="/wiki/Hayward_Fault_Zone" title="Hayward Fault Zone">Hayward</a> and <a href="/wiki/Calaveras_Fault" title="Calaveras Fault">Calaveras</a> faults to the east.<sup id="cite_ref-TimelineWater_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TimelineWater-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Within the valley and surrounding the bay on three sides are the urban communities of <a href="/wiki/San_Mateo_County,_California" title="San Mateo County, California">San Mateo County</a>, <a href="/wiki/Santa_Clara_County,_California" title="Santa Clara County, California">Santa Clara County</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Alameda_County,_California" title="Alameda County, California">Alameda County</a>, while the narrow southern reaches of the valley extend into rural <a href="/wiki/San_Benito_County,_California" title="San Benito County, California">San Benito County</a> to Hollister. In practical terms, the central portion of the Santa Clara Valley is often considered by itself, contained entirely within Santa Clara County.<sup id="cite_ref-Poland,_Ireland_1988_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Poland,_Ireland_1988-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The valley, named after the Spanish <a href="/wiki/Mission_Santa_Clara" class="mw-redirect" title="Mission Santa Clara">Mission Santa Clara</a>, was for a time known as the <b>Valley of Heart's Delight</b> for its high concentration of orchards, flowering trees, and plants.<sup id="cite_ref-Shueh_Page_8_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shueh_Page_8-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Todd_Page_2_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Todd_Page_2-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Until the 1960s it was the largest fruit-producing and packing region in the world, with 39 canneries.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The high-tech <a href="/wiki/Industrialization" class="mw-redirect" title="Industrialization">industrial growth</a> starting in the 1960s—later known as <a href="/wiki/Silicon_Valley" title="Silicon Valley">Silicon Valley</a>—transformed the area from extensive agricultural tracts to an urbanized landscape. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Overview">Overview</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Santa_Clara_Valley&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Overview"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Once primarily agricultural because of its highly fertile soil, Santa Clara Valley is now largely urbanized, although its far southern reaches south of <a href="/wiki/Gilroy,_California" title="Gilroy, California">Gilroy</a> remain agrarian. Few traces of its agricultural past can still be found, but the <a href="/wiki/Santa_Clara_Valley_AVA" title="Santa Clara Valley AVA">Santa Clara Valley American Viticultural Area</a> remains a large wine-making region. It was one of the first commercial wine-producing regions in California (and possibly the United States), utilizing high-quality French varietal vines imported from France.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The northern end of the Santa Clara Valley is at <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a>, and the southern end is south of <a href="/wiki/Hollister,_California" title="Hollister, California">Hollister</a>. The valley is bounded by the <a href="/wiki/Santa_Cruz_Mountains" title="Santa Cruz Mountains">Santa Cruz Mountains</a> on the southwest, which separate the valley from the Pacific Ocean, and by the <a href="/wiki/Diablo_Range" title="Diablo Range">Diablo Range</a> on the northeast. The valley is approximately 93 miles (150 km) long by 15 miles (20 km) wide.<sup id="cite_ref-Poland,_Ireland_1988_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Poland,_Ireland_1988-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Its largest city is <a href="/wiki/San_Jose,_California" title="San Jose, California">San Jose</a>. Santa Clara Valley has a Mediterranean semi-arid climate. </p><p>Joseph S. Diller, a geologist, observed in 1915 that a "notable peculiarity" of the Santa Clara Valley is that "it is divided transversely by a scarcely noticeable soil-covered <a href="/wiki/Drainage_divide" title="Drainage divide">divide</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-Diller_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Diller-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The northern portion is drained northward by various rivers and creeks into San Francisco Bay. The southern portion of the valley is drained southward by <a href="/wiki/Llagas_Creek" title="Llagas Creek">Llagas Creek</a> into the <a href="/wiki/Pajaro_River" title="Pajaro River">Pajaro River</a>, which in turn flows westward to <a href="/wiki/Monterey_Bay" title="Monterey Bay">Monterey Bay</a>. As one travels across the valley floor, "the <a href="/wiki/Alluvial_plain" title="Alluvial plain">alluvial plain</a> is continuous across the divide."<sup id="cite_ref-Diller_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Diller-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The summit of the transverse divide is about two miles from the former town of <a href="/wiki/Madrone,_Morgan_Hill,_California" title="Madrone, Morgan Hill, California">Madrone</a> at an elevation of 345 feet (105 meters), but the alluvial plain is so continuous that most travelers are unaware they are crossing between two <a href="/wiki/Drainage_basin" title="Drainage basin">drainage basins</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Diller_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Diller-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Santa_Clara_Valley&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The earliest known inhabitants on the Santa Clara Valley are the <a href="/wiki/Ohlone" title="Ohlone">Ohlone people</a>, who had eight distinct languages and tribes in the coastal region.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Mission_Santa_Clara_de_As%C3%ADs" title="Mission Santa Clara de Asís">Mission Santa Clara de Asís</a>, which had control over a vast tract of land stretching from <a href="/wiki/Palo_Alto,_California" title="Palo Alto, California">Palo Alto</a> to Gilroy, was founded by <a href="/wiki/Franciscans" title="Franciscans">Franciscans</a> in 1777.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> San Jose was California's first town and was also founded in 1777 by Spain as an agricultural pueblo.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_14-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There were 66 original settlers. In Spanish and Mexican times the land was devoted to cattle, as was most of California. Following the <a href="/wiki/Mexican%E2%80%93American_War" title="Mexican–American War">Mexican–American War</a> San Jose was briefly the capital of California. The influx of Americans resulted in relocation of many of the native Mexican and Indian people of San Jose to the mission at Santa Clara, which had been under control of Jesuits from 1850; they founded <a href="/wiki/Santa_Clara_University" title="Santa Clara University">Santa Clara University</a> there in 1851. In 1860, as an American town, the population of San Jose was 4,579, with cattle ranching still the main agricultural activity. For a time wheat became the main crop, but in the 1870s fruit gradually became the main crop and processing of fruit by drying or canning the predominant industry. The railroad reached San Jose in 1860.<sup id="cite_ref-SVWCD14_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SVWCD14-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Valley_of_Heart's_Delight"><span id="The_Valley_of_Heart.27s_Delight"></span>The Valley of Heart's Delight</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Santa_Clara_Valley&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: The Valley of Heart's Delight"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Prune_Orchard_near_Santa_Clara,_California_(3655751146).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Prune_Orchard_near_Santa_Clara%2C_California_%283655751146%29.jpg/220px-Prune_Orchard_near_Santa_Clara%2C_California_%283655751146%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="179" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Prune_Orchard_near_Santa_Clara%2C_California_%283655751146%29.jpg/330px-Prune_Orchard_near_Santa_Clara%2C_California_%283655751146%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Prune_Orchard_near_Santa_Clara%2C_California_%283655751146%29.jpg/440px-Prune_Orchard_near_Santa_Clara%2C_California_%283655751146%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2422" data-file-height="1967" /></a><figcaption>"Valley of the Heart's Delight", mid 20th century</figcaption></figure> <p>The valley with its scenic beauty, mild climate, and thousands of acres of blooming fruit trees was known as "The Valley of Heart's Delight".<sup id="cite_ref-Shueh_Page_8_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shueh_Page_8-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Todd_Page_2_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Todd_Page_2-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Various fruit cooperatives were formed in the area to deal with economic issues, including the California Fruit Union (founded in 1883) and the Santa Clara County Fruit Exchange (founded in 1892).<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Prune" title="Prune">Prunes</a> were a major crop, with the valley was producing the majority of prunes in California by 1900 and shipped internationally.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Water was supplied from an <a href="/wiki/Artesian_aquifer" class="mw-redirect" title="Artesian aquifer">artesian aquifer</a> and when the water table dropped, wells were pumped. Many orchards were small with housing and fruit growing in a dispersed pattern. By the 1920s and 1930s, the agricultural and horticultural industries were doing well in the valley and included 18 canneries, 13 dried-fruit packing houses, and 12 fresh-fruit and vegetable shipping firms, and they were shipping internationally.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Del_Monte_Foods" title="Del Monte Foods">Del Monte</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sunsweet" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunsweet">Sunsweet</a> are two brands which originated in the Santa Clara Valley.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The need for workers greatly exceeded the local population and in the nineteenth century, Chinese and Japanese immigrants met that need. Toward the end of the nineteenth century many Italians and other immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe came to the valley and worked in the orchards and canneries. During the 20th century there were Filipino immigrants and increasing numbers of immigrants from Mexico who during World War II became the dominant agricultural workforce. The town of San Jose was dominated by its business community, which was in part composed of Irish Catholics, who had a self-contained social life which did not include immigrant labor.<sup id="cite_ref-Carroll_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carroll-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There was marked prejudice against Asians, particularly Chinese, who gradually left the valley.<sup id="cite_ref-SVWCD14-32_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SVWCD14-32-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Great_Depression">The Great Depression</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Santa_Clara_Valley&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: The Great Depression"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Libby_Water_Tower.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Libby_Water_Tower.jpg/170px-Libby_Water_Tower.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="257" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Libby_Water_Tower.jpg/255px-Libby_Water_Tower.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Libby_Water_Tower.jpg/340px-Libby_Water_Tower.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="4928" /></a><figcaption>Libby Water Tower, a heritage landmark in Sunnyvale<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Deflation" title="Deflation">Deflation</a> and <a href="/wiki/Overproduction" title="Overproduction">overproduction</a> severely hurt the orchards and packers of the Santa Clara Valley during the <a href="/wiki/Great_Depression" title="Great Depression">Great Depression</a>. Bankrupt farmers from the <a href="/wiki/Dust_Bowl" title="Dust Bowl">Dust Bowl</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Okie" title="Okie">Okies</a>, made the trek to California<i>.</i> Desperate to feed their families, they joined a workforce that was itself impacted by unemployment. The growers, with record low prices and surplus supply, could pay little. Labor organizers and goon squads battled in the labor camps.<sup id="cite_ref-Bronfenbrenner_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bronfenbrenner-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Woody_Guthrie" title="Woody Guthrie">Woody Guthrie</a>'s songs were on the radio and he wrote a regular column in the San Francisco-based <i><a href="/wiki/People%27s_World" title="People's World">The Daily People's World</a></i>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Encyclopedic_content" title="Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not"><span title="Someone's songs were on the radio? He wrote a column in a magazine? What does that have to do with Santa Clara Valley? (March 2023)">importance?</span></a></i>]</sup> San Francisco had a strong labor union tradition which extended to Santa Clara County. During the "<a href="/wiki/International_Longshore_and_Warehouse_Union#Participation_in_the_Hawaii_Democratic_Revolution_of_1954" title="International Longshore and Warehouse Union">March Inland</a>" organizing drive the <a href="/wiki/International_Longshore_and_Warehouse_Union" title="International Longshore and Warehouse Union">International Longshore and Warehouse Union</a> (ILWU) backed the <a href="/wiki/Cannery_and_Agricultural_Workers%27_Industrial_Union" title="Cannery and Agricultural Workers' Industrial Union">Cannery and Agricultural Workers' Industrial Union</a> (CAWIU), a <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_USA" title="Communist Party USA">Communist</a>-controlled union headquartered in San Jose, which had considerable success organizing farm and cannery workers in the Santa Clara Valley and elsewhere in California<sup id="cite_ref-Bronfenbrenner_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bronfenbrenner-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> until it was suppressed and its leaders jailed in 1934 by the State of California following sustained attacks by business, political, and reactionary forces<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view" title="Wikipedia:Neutral point of view"><span title="This statement is possibly biased. (March 2023)">neutrality</span></a> is <a href="/wiki/Talk:Santa_Clara_Valley" title="Talk:Santa Clara Valley">disputed</a></i>]</sup> which, in San Jose, resulted in an atmosphere of terror (the low point of which was a public lynching tacitly supported by <a href="/wiki/James_Rolph" title="James Rolph">James Rolph</a>, the Governor of California).<sup id="cite_ref-SVWCD53-64_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SVWCD53-64-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The canneries, with a segregated seasonal work force of white women, were eventually organized, at first by an AFL-affiliated company union, but one which gradually evolved, thanks to rank and file efforts, into a union which genuinely represented cannery workers.<sup id="cite_ref-SVWCD48-80_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SVWCD48-80-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="War_and_industry">War and industry</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Santa_Clara_Valley&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: War and industry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The fruit industry gradually recovered, and by the early 1940s, prosperity returned to the valley.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Wartime production associated with World War II brought industry to the valley such as building of marine engines for <a href="/wiki/Liberty_ship" title="Liberty ship">Liberty ships</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Joshua_Hendy_Iron_Works" title="Joshua Hendy Iron Works">Joshua Hendy Iron Works</a>, now <a href="/wiki/Northrop_Grumman" title="Northrop Grumman">Northrop Grumman</a> Marine Systems<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in <a href="/wiki/Sunnyvale,_California" title="Sunnyvale, California">Sunnyvale</a>; <a href="/wiki/Landing_Vehicle_Tracked" title="Landing Vehicle Tracked">landing craft</a> were built by <a href="/wiki/FMC_Corporation" title="FMC Corporation">Food Machinery Corporation</a>, which later built the <a href="/wiki/M113_armored_personnel_carrier" title="M113 armored personnel carrier">M113</a> armored personnel carrier, the <a href="/wiki/M2_Bradley" title="M2 Bradley">Bradley Fighting Vehicle</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/FMC_XR311" title="FMC XR311">XR311</a> at its facility in <a href="/wiki/Santa_Clara,_California" title="Santa Clara, California">Santa Clara</a>;<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> and an <a href="/wiki/IBM" title="IBM">IBM</a> factory began manufacturing <a href="/wiki/Punched_card" title="Punched card">punch cards</a> in San Jose in 1943.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>About 1,000 <a href="/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans" title="Internment of Japanese Americans">Japanese were interned</a>, losing substantial property. Wartime production drew workers, including <a href="/wiki/Rosie_the_Riveter" title="Rosie the Riveter">women</a>, from the orchards and canneries; they were replaced by <a href="/wiki/Mexican_American" class="mw-redirect" title="Mexican American">Mexican Americans</a> from Texas and California and by Mexican <a href="/wiki/Bracero_program" class="mw-redirect" title="Bracero program">braceros</a>. Neighborhoods in East San Jose, such as the <a href="/wiki/Meadowfair" class="mw-redirect" title="Meadowfair">Meadowfair</a> district, became <a href="/wiki/Barrio" title="Barrio">barrios</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/UGM-27_Polaris" title="UGM-27 Polaris">Polaris submarine-launched ballistic missile</a> was built during the Cold War by Lockheed Missiles & Space Division in Sunnyvale for the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">United States Navy</a>, while Northrop Grumman Marine Systems built the launch tubes and propulsion systems.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> For the most part, the defense industry and traditional electronics manufacturers, with the exception of IBM, in the Santa Clara Valley were unionized, mainly by the <a href="/wiki/International_Association_of_Machinists_and_Aerospace_Workers" title="International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers">International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers</a>, <a href="/wiki/International_Brotherhood_of_Electrical_Workers" title="International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers">International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers</a>, and Teamsters. The <a href="/wiki/United_Electrical,_Radio_and_Machine_Workers_of_America" title="United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America">United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America</a>, a communist dominated union, but friendly to minority and women workers, gradually lost its place during the McCarthy era.<sup id="cite_ref-SVWCD119-22_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SVWCD119-22-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Silicon_Valley">Silicon Valley</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Santa_Clara_Valley&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Silicon Valley"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Silicon_Valley" title="Silicon Valley">Silicon Valley</a></div> <p>In the 1950s, the first <a href="/wiki/Transistor" title="Transistor">transistor</a> industries was established in the area. Led by <a href="/wiki/Stanford_University" title="Stanford University">Stanford University</a>, the lower San Francisco Peninsula became home to many high-tech industries, creating the high-tech center known as <a href="/wiki/Silicon_Valley" title="Silicon Valley">Silicon Valley</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-SVWCD81-146_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SVWCD81-146-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The name came from the <a href="/wiki/Silicon" title="Silicon">silicon</a> element used by <a href="/wiki/Semiconductor" title="Semiconductor">semiconductor</a> companies in their <a href="/wiki/Integrated_circuit" title="Integrated circuit">microchips</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The borders of Silicon Valley have been variously defined. Most observers include the entirety of Santa Clara County and the southern portions of San Mateo and Alameda counties, while others extend the region northwest to <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a> or northeast to <a href="/wiki/San_Ramon,_California" title="San Ramon, California">San Ramon</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_29-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="San_Jose">San Jose</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Santa_Clara_Valley&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: San Jose"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1950, <a href="/wiki/A._P._Hamann" title="A. P. Hamann">Dutch Hamann</a> was appointed <a href="/wiki/City_manager" title="City manager">city manager</a> of San Jose. Hamann's boosterism was supported by <a href="/wiki/Knight_Ridder" title="Knight Ridder">Joe Ridder</a>, publisher of the <i><a href="/wiki/San_Jose_Mercury_News" class="mw-redirect" title="San Jose Mercury News">San Jose Mercury</a></i>. In power until 1969, Hamann created a <a href="/wiki/Urban_planning" title="Urban planning">master plan</a> for San Jose and embarked on a program of <a href="/wiki/Annexation" title="Annexation">annexation</a> that increased the area of San Jose from 17 square miles to 136.7 square miles.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The main bargaining chip was the superior <a href="/wiki/Sewage_collection_and_disposal" class="mw-redirect" title="Sewage collection and disposal">sewage system</a> built to handle cannery waste.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> To overcome resistance by school districts, who otherwise would have lost their tax base, annexed areas were allowed to maintain independent school districts. This resulted in some parts of the city, such as <a href="/wiki/East_San_Jose" title="East San Jose">East San Jose</a>, having low-quality segregated school systems with a low tax base while school systems in other parts of San Jose had an ample tax base and high-quality schools.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The population of San Jose increased from 95 thousand in 1950 to 446 thousand in 1970. There were critics: Santa Clara County Planning Director Karl Belser, who opposed <a href="/wiki/Urban_sprawl" title="Urban sprawl">urban sprawl</a>, commented, "Perhaps the only use we will ever find for the hydrogen bomb will be to erase this great mistake from the face of the earth."<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Housing for each additional 1000 people took 257 acres of land.<sup id="cite_ref-SVWCD95-102_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SVWCD95-102-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In more recent years, San Jose and the Santa Clara Valley have suffered from extensive <a href="/wiki/Droughts_in_California" title="Droughts in California">droughts in California</a> to the extent that some residents may run out of household water by the summer of 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="The date of the event predicted near this tag has passed. (March 2023)">needs update</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Schools">Schools</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Santa_Clara_Valley&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Schools"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Funding for public schools in upscale communities in the Santa Clara Valley is often supplemented by grants from private foundations set up for that purpose and funded by local residents. Schools in less favorable demographics must depend on state funding.<sup id="cite_ref-TNY52713_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TNY52713-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cities_and_towns">Cities and towns</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Santa_Clara_Valley&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Cities and towns"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:AlumRockViewSiliconValley_w.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/AlumRockViewSiliconValley_w.jpg/440px-AlumRockViewSiliconValley_w.jpg" decoding="async" width="440" height="98" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/AlumRockViewSiliconValley_w.jpg/660px-AlumRockViewSiliconValley_w.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/AlumRockViewSiliconValley_w.jpg/880px-AlumRockViewSiliconValley_w.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5891" data-file-height="1308" /></a><figcaption>Looking west, across the valley, from <a href="/wiki/Alum_Rock_Park" title="Alum Rock Park">Alum Rock Park</a> over northern <a href="/wiki/San_Jose,_California" title="San Jose, California">San Jose</a> (downtown is at far left) and other parts of the valley. The valley runs north to south in the picture.</figcaption></figure> <p>Cities and towns in the Santa Clara Valley include (in alphabetical order):<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Campbell,_California" title="Campbell, California">Campbell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cupertino,_California" title="Cupertino, California">Cupertino</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gilroy,_California" title="Gilroy, California">Gilroy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hollister,_California" title="Hollister, California">Hollister</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Los_Gatos,_California" title="Los Gatos, California">Los Gatos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Los_Altos,_California" title="Los Altos, California">Los Altos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Los_Altos_Hills,_California" title="Los Altos Hills, California">Los Altos Hills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milpitas,_California" title="Milpitas, California">Milpitas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monte_Sereno,_California" title="Monte Sereno, California">Monte Sereno</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morgan_Hill,_California" title="Morgan Hill, California">Morgan Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mountain_View,_California" title="Mountain View, California">Mountain View</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palo_Alto,_California" title="Palo Alto, California">Palo Alto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Martin,_California" title="San Martin, California">San Martin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Jose,_California" title="San Jose, California">San Jose</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Juan_Bautista,_California" title="San Juan Bautista, California">San Juan Bautista</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Santa_Clara,_California" title="Santa Clara, California">Santa Clara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saratoga,_California" title="Saratoga, California">Saratoga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunnyvale,_California" title="Sunnyvale, California">Sunnyvale</a></li></ul> <p>Because technology companies have spread out from Silicon Valley, <a href="/wiki/Fremont,_California" title="Fremont, California">Fremont</a> and <a href="/wiki/Newark,_California" title="Newark, California">Newark</a>, even though they are not in Santa Clara County, are often included in discussions about Silicon Valley, or, in the case of Fremont, referred to as the "Gateway to the Silicon Valley" (a title also claimed occasionally by San Jose, <a href="/wiki/Union_City,_California" title="Union City, California">Union City</a>, and several other locations). Similarly, <a href="/wiki/Palo_Alto,_California" title="Palo Alto, California">Palo Alto</a>, while in <a href="/wiki/Santa_Clara_County,_California" title="Santa Clara County, California">Santa Clara County</a> and considered part of <a href="/wiki/Silicon_Valley" title="Silicon Valley">Silicon Valley</a>, is on the <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Peninsula" title="San Francisco Peninsula">San Francisco Peninsula</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:San_Jose_California_Skyline.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/San_Jose_California_Skyline.jpg/290px-San_Jose_California_Skyline.jpg" decoding="async" width="290" height="193" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/San_Jose_California_Skyline.jpg/435px-San_Jose_California_Skyline.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/San_Jose_California_Skyline.jpg/580px-San_Jose_California_Skyline.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3888" data-file-height="2592" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/San_Jose,_California" title="San Jose, California">San Jose</a> is the largest city in the Santa Clara Valley.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:South_San_Francisco_Bay_viewed_from_Mission_Peak_in_Fremont,_California.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/South_San_Francisco_Bay_viewed_from_Mission_Peak_in_Fremont%2C_California.JPG/290px-South_San_Francisco_Bay_viewed_from_Mission_Peak_in_Fremont%2C_California.JPG" decoding="async" width="290" height="193" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/South_San_Francisco_Bay_viewed_from_Mission_Peak_in_Fremont%2C_California.JPG/435px-South_San_Francisco_Bay_viewed_from_Mission_Peak_in_Fremont%2C_California.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/South_San_Francisco_Bay_viewed_from_Mission_Peak_in_Fremont%2C_California.JPG/580px-South_San_Francisco_Bay_viewed_from_Mission_Peak_in_Fremont%2C_California.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4608" data-file-height="3072" /></a><figcaption>South San Francisco Bay viewed from <a href="/wiki/Mission_Peak" title="Mission Peak">Mission Peak</a> Regional Preserve in <a href="/wiki/Fremont,_California" title="Fremont, California">Fremont</a></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_structures">Notable structures</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Santa_Clara_Valley&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Notable structures"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/List_of_attractions_in_Silicon_Valley" class="mw-redirect" title="List of attractions in Silicon Valley">List of attractions in Silicon Valley</a></div> <p>There are a number of well-known structures and sites of interest in the South Bay: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Apple_Park" title="Apple Park">Apple Park</a>, Cupertino</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hewlett-Packard" title="Hewlett-Packard">Hewlett-Packard</a>, Palo Alto</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stanford_University" title="Stanford University">Stanford University</a>, Palo Alto</li> <li><a href="/wiki/SAP_Center" title="SAP Center">SAP Center</a>, downtown San Jose</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hayes_Mansion" title="Hayes Mansion">Hayes Mansion</a>, Southern San Jose</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plaza_de_C%C3%A9sar_Ch%C3%A1vez" title="Plaza de César Chávez">Plaza de César Chávez</a>, downtown San Jose</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cathedral_Basilica_of_St._Joseph_(San_Jose)" title="Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph (San Jose)">Cathedral Basilica of Saint Joseph</a>, downtown San Jose</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winchester_Mystery_House" title="Winchester Mystery House">Winchester Mystery House</a>, Western San Jose</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Santana_Row" title="Santana Row">Santana Row</a>, Western San Jose</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lick_Observatory" title="Lick Observatory">Lick Observatory</a>, Mount Hamilton</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rosicrucian_Egyptian_Museum" title="Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum">Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum</a>, Central San Jose</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mexican_Heritage_Plaza" title="Mexican Heritage Plaza">Mexican Heritage Plaza</a>, Eastern San Jose</li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_Park_at_Kelley_Park" class="mw-redirect" title="History Park at Kelley Park">History Park at Kelley Park</a>, Central San Jose</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Children%27s_Discovery_Museum_of_San_Jose" title="Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose">Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose</a>, Downtown San Jose</li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Jose_International_Airport" title="San Jose International Airport">San Jose International Airport</a>, uptown San Jose</li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Jose_Museum_of_Art" title="San Jose Museum of Art">San Jose Museum of Art</a>, downtown San Jose</li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Jose_State_University" title="San Jose State University">San Jose State University</a>, downtown San Jose</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Santa_Clara_University" title="Santa Clara University">Santa Clara University</a>, Santa Clara (which includes the original Santa Clara Mission site)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/California%27s_Great_America" title="California's Great America">California's Great America</a>, Santa Clara</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Tech_Interactive" title="The Tech Interactive">The Tech Interactive</a>, downtown San Jose</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moffett_Federal_Airfield" title="Moffett Federal Airfield">Moffett Federal Airfield</a>, Sunnyvale/Mountain View</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yahoo!" class="mw-redirect" title="Yahoo!">Yahoo!</a>, Sunnyvale</li> <li><a href="/wiki/LinkedIn" title="LinkedIn">LinkedIn</a>, Sunnyvale</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alviso" class="mw-redirect" title="Alviso">Alviso</a>, Northern San Jose (sea access/ main port of goods from Asia in 1800 before Oakland took over the following century)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Berryessa_Flea_Market" class="mw-redirect" title="Berryessa Flea Market">Berryessa Flea Market</a>, Northern San Jose (previously Earth's largest)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gurdwara_Sahib_of_San_Jose" title="Gurdwara Sahib of San Jose">Gurdwara Sahib of San Jose</a>, Eastern San Jose (Sikh Temple built by President Jit Singh Bainiwal)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Levis_Stadium" class="mw-redirect" title="Levis Stadium">Levis Stadium</a>, Santa Clara</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geology">Geology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Santa_Clara_Valley&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Geology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Santa Clara Valley was created by the sudden growth of the <a href="/wiki/Santa_Cruz_Mountains" title="Santa Cruz Mountains">Santa Cruz Mountains</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Diablo_Range" title="Diablo Range">Diablo Range</a> during the later <a href="/wiki/Cenozoic" title="Cenozoic">Cenozoic</a> era. This was a period of intense <a href="/wiki/Mountain_formation" title="Mountain formation">mountain building</a> in California when the folding and thrusting of the Earth's <a href="/wiki/Crust_(geology)" title="Crust (geology)">crust</a>, combined with active <a href="/wiki/Volcano" title="Volcano">volcanism</a>, gave shape to the present state of California. Hence, Santa Clara Valley is a structural valley, created by mountain building, as opposed to an erosional valley, which is a valley that has undergone the wearing away of the Earth's surface by natural agents.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The underlying geology of the Santa Cruz Mountains was also formed by the <a href="/wiki/Sediment" title="Sediment">sediment</a> of the ancient seas, where marine <a href="/wiki/Shale" title="Shale">shale</a> points to <a href="/wiki/Miocene" title="Miocene">Miocene</a> origin. Today, evidence of this is still found in the Santa Cruz Mountains, where <a href="/wiki/Shark" title="Shark">shark</a>'s teeth and the remains of maritime life are still found as high as <a href="/wiki/Scotts_Valley,_California" title="Scotts Valley, California">Scotts Valley</a>, a city nestled in the mountains.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The highest peak on the Santa Cruz Mountain Range side of the valley is <a href="/wiki/Loma_Prieta" title="Loma Prieta">Loma Prieta</a> at 3,790 feet. The highest peak in the <a href="/wiki/Diablo_Range" title="Diablo Range">Diablo Range</a> side of the valley is <a href="/wiki/Mount_Hamilton_(California)" title="Mount Hamilton (California)">Mount Hamilton</a>, specifically Copernicus Peak at 4,370 feet elevation. It is the highest peak in <a href="/wiki/Santa_Clara_County" class="mw-redirect" title="Santa Clara County">Santa Clara County</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The valley is a <a href="/wiki/Graben" title="Graben">graben</a> between the <a href="/wiki/San_Andreas_Fault" title="San Andreas Fault">San Andreas</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hayward_Fault" class="mw-redirect" title="Hayward Fault">Hayward</a> faults.<sup id="cite_ref-TimelineWater_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TimelineWater-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Quicksilver_mine">Quicksilver mine</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Santa_Clara_Valley&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Quicksilver mine"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During the 19th century, 37,388 metric tons of <a href="/wiki/Mercury_(element)" title="Mercury (element)">mercury</a> were extracted from the <a href="/wiki/New_Almaden" title="New Almaden">New Almaden</a> mine south of San Jose and northeast of <a href="/wiki/Santa_Cruz,_California" title="Santa Cruz, California">Santa Cruz</a>. The area, closed for many years, resulted in pollution of the Guadalupe River and South San Francisco Bay.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After intermittent mining operations finally ceased in the 20th century, the area was purchased by Santa Clara County to be used as a park and was designated a <a href="/wiki/National_Historic_Landmark" title="National Historic Landmark">National Historic Landmark</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Climate">Climate</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Santa_Clara_Valley&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Climate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:AlumRockViewSiliconValley_w.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/AlumRockViewSiliconValley_w.jpg/440px-AlumRockViewSiliconValley_w.jpg" decoding="async" width="440" height="98" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/AlumRockViewSiliconValley_w.jpg/660px-AlumRockViewSiliconValley_w.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/AlumRockViewSiliconValley_w.jpg/880px-AlumRockViewSiliconValley_w.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5891" data-file-height="1308" /></a><figcaption>Looking west over northern San Jose (downtown is at far left) and other parts of Silicon Valley</figcaption></figure> <p>The climate of the Santa Clara Valley in <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a> is a <a href="/wiki/Mediterranean_climate" title="Mediterranean climate">Mediterranean climate</a><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with warm, very dry summers and mild, fairly rainy winters. Today, the Valley attracts many people from the <a href="/wiki/East_Coast_of_the_United_States" title="East Coast of the United States">East Coast</a> with its warm and sunny climate. The Santa Clara Valley receives on average 330 sunny days per <a href="/wiki/Year" title="Year">year</a>. The northern areas of the valley (such as <a href="/wiki/Palo_Alto,_California" title="Palo Alto, California">Palo Alto</a> or <a href="/wiki/Mountain_View,_California" title="Mountain View, California">Mountain View</a>) have greater marine influences with temperatures rarely rising above 85 °F (29 °C) while in the southern areas and near the <a href="/wiki/Santa_Cruz_Mountains" title="Santa Cruz Mountains">mountains</a> (such as <a href="/wiki/Los_Gatos,_California" title="Los Gatos, California">Los Gatos</a>, <a href="/wiki/Morgan_Hill,_California" title="Morgan Hill, California">Morgan Hill</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Gilroy,_California" title="Gilroy, California">Gilroy</a>) the temperature frequently exceeds 95 °F (35 °C) in the summer months. Winter is the rainy season, but still quite sunny. Winter highs range from 57 to 66 °F (14 to 19 °C)<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while lows range from 40 to 48 °F (4 to 9 °C). Summer highs range from 82 to 95 °F (28 to 35 °C) and summer lows range from 53 to 58 °F (12 to 14 °C).<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The record high for the Santa Clara Valley was recorded in Los Gatos on June 9, 2000, with a temperature of 114 °F (46 °C) and the record low was recorded in Gilroy on December 23, 1990, with a temperature of 16 °F (−9 °C).<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Temperatures drop below 40 °F (4 °C) on average of 17 days per year, below freezing on average of 4 days per year and below 30 °F (−1 °C) on average of 0 days per year (none).<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>More recently, extensive <a href="/wiki/Droughts_in_California" title="Droughts in California">droughts in California</a>, further complicated by drainage of the local Anderson reservoir for seismic repairs, have strained the Valley's <a href="/wiki/Water_security" title="Water security">water security</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Temperatures">Temperatures</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Santa_Clara_Valley&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Temperatures"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="width:auto; text-align:center; line-height:1.2em;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="14">Climate data for San Jose, California </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Month </th> <th scope="col">Jan </th> <th scope="col">Feb </th> <th scope="col">Mar </th> <th scope="col">Apr </th> <th scope="col">May </th> <th scope="col">Jun </th> <th scope="col">Jul </th> <th scope="col">Aug </th> <th scope="col">Sep </th> <th scope="col">Oct </th> <th scope="col">Nov </th> <th scope="col">Dec </th> <th scope="col" style="border-left-width:medium">Year </th></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record high °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #FF5D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">83<br />(28) </td> <td style="background: #FF5600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">85<br />(29) </td> <td style="background: #FF4800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">87<br />(31) </td> <td style="background: #FF2C00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">95<br />(35) </td> <td style="background: #FF1800; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">101<br />(38) </td> <td style="background: #EA0000; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">109<br />(43) </td> <td style="background: #F80000; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">108<br />(42) </td> <td style="background: #FF0300; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">105<br />(41) </td> <td style="background: #FF0A00; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">104<br />(40) </td> <td style="background: #FF1800; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">101<br />(38) </td> <td style="background: #FF5600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">85<br />(29) </td> <td style="background: #FF5D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">83<br />(28) </td> <td style="background: #EA0000; color:#FFFFFF; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">109<br />(43) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily maximum °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #FFA852; color:#000000;" class="notheme">62<br />(17) </td> <td style="background: #FFA144; color:#000000;" class="notheme">65<br />(18) </td> <td style="background: #FF8D1B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">70<br />(21) </td> <td style="background: #FF7F00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">73<br />(23) </td> <td style="background: #FF7100; color:#000000;" class="notheme">77<br />(25) </td> <td style="background: #FF5D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">82<br />(28) </td> <td style="background: #FF5600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">84<br />(29) </td> <td style="background: #FF5600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">84<br />(29) </td> <td style="background: #FF6300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">81<br />(27) </td> <td style="background: #FF7800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">76<br />(24) </td> <td style="background: #FFA144; color:#000000;" class="notheme">65<br />(18) </td> <td style="background: #FFA852; color:#000000;" class="notheme">62<br />(17) </td> <td style="background: #FF8104; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">72.9<br />(22.7) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily minimum °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #FFF4EA; color:#000000;" class="notheme">43<br />(6) </td> <td style="background: #FFEDDC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">45<br />(7) </td> <td style="background: #FFE6CE; color:#000000;" class="notheme">46<br />(8) </td> <td style="background: #FFDFC0; color:#000000;" class="notheme">48<br />(9) </td> <td style="background: #FFD2A5; color:#000000;" class="notheme">52<br />(11) </td> <td style="background: #FFC489; color:#000000;" class="notheme">55<br />(13) </td> <td style="background: #FFBD7C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">57<br />(14) </td> <td style="background: #FFBD7C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">57<br />(14) </td> <td style="background: #FFC489; color:#000000;" class="notheme">56<br />(13) </td> <td style="background: #FFD2A5; color:#000000;" class="notheme">52<br />(11) </td> <td style="background: #FFEDDC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">45<br />(7) </td> <td style="background: #FFF4EA; color:#000000;" class="notheme">43<br />(6) </td> <td style="background: #FFD9B4; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">49.8<br />(9.9) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record low °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #D1D1FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">24<br />(−4) </td> <td style="background: #D6D6FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">26<br />(−3) </td> <td style="background: #E1E1FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">30<br />(−1) </td> <td style="background: #F1F1FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">35<br />(2) </td> <td style="background: #F6F6FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">37<br />(3) </td> <td style="background: #FFF4EA; color:#000000;" class="notheme">42<br />(6) </td> <td style="background: #FFE6CE; color:#000000;" class="notheme">47<br />(8) </td> <td style="background: #FFE6CE; color:#000000;" class="notheme">47<br />(8) </td> <td style="background: #FFF4EA; color:#000000;" class="notheme">42<br />(6) </td> <td style="background: #F1F1FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">36<br />(2) </td> <td style="background: #C6C6FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">21<br />(−6) </td> <td style="background: #C0C0FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">20<br />(−7) </td> <td style="background: #C0C0FF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">20<br />(−7) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average <a href="/wiki/Precipitation" title="Precipitation">precipitation</a> inches (mm) </th> <td style="background: #8686FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.2<br />(81) </td> <td style="background: #8A8AFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.8<br />(71) </td> <td style="background: #9C9CFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.6<br />(66) </td> <td style="background: #D8D8FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">1.0<br />(25) </td> <td style="background: #F0F0FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.4<br />(10) </td> <td style="background: #FBFBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.1<br />(2.5) </td> <td style="background: #FBFBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.1<br />(2.5) </td> <td style="background: #FBFBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.1<br />(2.5) </td> <td style="background: #F7F7FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.2<br />(5.1) </td> <td style="background: #DCDCFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.9<br />(23) </td> <td style="background: #D0D0FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">1.2<br />(30) </td> <td style="background: #B3B3FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.0<br />(51) </td> <td style="background: #CECEFF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">15.1<br />(380) </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="14" style="text-align:center;font-size:95%;">Source: AccuWeather.com<sup id="cite_ref-Accuweather_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Accuweather-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div><p>. </p><div> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="width:auto; text-align:center; line-height:1.2em;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="14">Climate data for Campbell, California </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Month </th> <th scope="col">Jan </th> <th scope="col">Feb </th> <th scope="col">Mar </th> <th scope="col">Apr </th> <th scope="col">May </th> <th scope="col">Jun </th> <th scope="col">Jul </th> <th scope="col">Aug </th> <th scope="col">Sep </th> <th scope="col">Oct </th> <th scope="col">Nov </th> <th scope="col">Dec </th> <th scope="col" style="border-left-width:medium">Year </th></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record high °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #FF5D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">83<br />(28) </td> <td style="background: #FF4F00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">86<br />(30) </td> <td style="background: #FF4100; color:#000000;" class="notheme">89<br />(32) </td> <td style="background: #FF3300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">93<br />(34) </td> <td style="background: #FF1F00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">98<br />(37) </td> <td style="background: #EA0000; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">110<br />(43) </td> <td style="background: #F80000; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">108<br />(42) </td> <td style="background: #FF0300; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">106<br />(41) </td> <td style="background: #FF0300; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">106<br />(41) </td> <td style="background: #FF1800; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">100<br />(38) </td> <td style="background: #FF4F00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">86<br />(30) </td> <td style="background: #FF5D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">83<br />(28) </td> <td style="background: #EA0000; color:#FFFFFF; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">110<br />(43) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily maximum °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #FFA852; color:#000000;" class="notheme">63<br />(17) </td> <td style="background: #FF9B37; color:#000000;" class="notheme">66<br />(19) </td> <td style="background: #FF860D; color:#000000;" class="notheme">71<br />(22) </td> <td style="background: #FF7800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">75<br />(24) </td> <td style="background: #FF6A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">79<br />(26) </td> <td style="background: #FF5D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">82<br />(28) </td> <td style="background: #FF5600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">85<br />(29) </td> <td style="background: #FF5600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">85<br />(29) </td> <td style="background: #FF5D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">82<br />(28) </td> <td style="background: #FF7800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">76<br />(24) </td> <td style="background: #FF9B37; color:#000000;" class="notheme">66<br />(19) </td> <td style="background: #FFA852; color:#000000;" class="notheme">63<br />(17) </td> <td style="background: #FF7F00; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">74<br />(23) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily minimum °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #FFF4EA; color:#000000;" class="notheme">43<br />(6) </td> <td style="background: #FFE6CE; color:#000000;" class="notheme">46<br />(8) </td> <td style="background: #FFE6CE; color:#000000;" class="notheme">47<br />(8) </td> <td style="background: #FFDFC0; color:#000000;" class="notheme">49<br />(9) </td> <td style="background: #FFD2A5; color:#000000;" class="notheme">52<br />(11) </td> <td style="background: #FFC489; color:#000000;" class="notheme">56<br />(13) </td> <td style="background: #FFBD7C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">57<br />(14) </td> <td style="background: #FFBD7C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">57<br />(14) </td> <td style="background: #FFC489; color:#000000;" class="notheme">55<br />(13) </td> <td style="background: #FFD2A5; color:#000000;" class="notheme">51<br />(11) </td> <td style="background: #FFE6CE; color:#000000;" class="notheme">46<br />(8) </td> <td style="background: #FFF4EA; color:#000000;" class="notheme">43<br />(6) </td> <td style="background: #FFD9B3; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">50<br />(10) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record low °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #C6C6FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">22<br />(−6) </td> <td style="background: #D6D6FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">26<br />(−3) </td> <td style="background: #DBDBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">29<br />(−2) </td> <td style="background: #F1F1FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">35<br />(2) </td> <td style="background: #F6F6FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">38<br />(3) </td> <td style="background: #FFF4EA; color:#000000;" class="notheme">42<br />(6) </td> <td style="background: #FFF4EA; color:#000000;" class="notheme">42<br />(6) </td> <td style="background: #FCFCFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">40<br />(4) </td> <td style="background: #F6F6FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">38<br />(3) </td> <td style="background: #F1F1FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">36<br />(2) </td> <td style="background: #DBDBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">29<br />(−2) </td> <td style="background: #C0C0FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">19<br />(−7) </td> <td style="background: #C0C0FF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">19<br />(−7) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average <a href="/wiki/Precipitation" title="Precipitation">precipitation</a> inches (mm) </th> <td style="background: #4C4CFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">4.7<br />(120) </td> <td style="background: #5B5BFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">4.1<br />(100) </td> <td style="background: #9C9CFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.6<br />(66) </td> <td style="background: #E7E7FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.6<br />(15) </td> <td style="background: #F3F3FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.3<br />(7.6) </td> <td style="background: #FBFBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.1<br />(2.5) </td> <td style="background: #FBFBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.1<br />(2.5) </td> <td style="background: #FBFBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.1<br />(2.5) </td> <td style="background: #F3F3FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.3<br />(7.6) </td> <td style="background: #E4E4FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.7<br />(18) </td> <td style="background: #9C9CFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.5<br />(64) </td> <td style="background: #5B5BFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">4.3<br />(110) </td> <td style="background: #B9B9FF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">21.6<br />(550) </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="14" style="text-align:center;font-size:95%;"><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2010)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <div> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="width:auto; text-align:center; line-height:1.2em;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="14">Climate data for Los Gatos, California </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Month </th> <th scope="col">Jan </th> <th scope="col">Feb </th> <th scope="col">Mar </th> <th scope="col">Apr </th> <th scope="col">May </th> <th scope="col">Jun </th> <th scope="col">Jul </th> <th scope="col">Aug </th> <th scope="col">Sep </th> <th scope="col">Oct </th> <th scope="col">Nov </th> <th scope="col">Dec </th> <th scope="col" style="border-left-width:medium">Year </th></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record high °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #FF5D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">83<br />(28) </td> <td style="background: #FF4F00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">86<br />(30) </td> <td style="background: #FF4100; color:#000000;" class="notheme">89<br />(32) </td> <td style="background: #FF2500; color:#000000;" class="notheme">96<br />(36) </td> <td style="background: #FF1800; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">101<br />(38) </td> <td style="background: #C00000; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">114<br />(46) </td> <td style="background: #CE0000; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">113<br />(45) </td> <td style="background: #F80000; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">107<br />(42) </td> <td style="background: #EA0000; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">109<br />(43) </td> <td style="background: #FF1100; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">103<br />(39) </td> <td style="background: #FF4800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">87<br />(31) </td> <td style="background: #FF5D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">83<br />(28) </td> <td style="background: #C00000; color:#FFFFFF; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">114<br />(46) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily maximum °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #FFA852; color:#000000;" class="notheme">63<br />(17) </td> <td style="background: #FF9B37; color:#000000;" class="notheme">66<br />(19) </td> <td style="background: #FF860D; color:#000000;" class="notheme">72<br />(22) </td> <td style="background: #FF7800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">76<br />(24) </td> <td style="background: #FF6300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">80<br />(27) </td> <td style="background: #FF5600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">84<br />(29) </td> <td style="background: #FF4F00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">86<br />(30) </td> <td style="background: #FF4F00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">86<br />(30) </td> <td style="background: #FF5600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">84<br />(29) </td> <td style="background: #FF7100; color:#000000;" class="notheme">77<br />(25) </td> <td style="background: #FF9B37; color:#000000;" class="notheme">66<br />(19) </td> <td style="background: #FFA852; color:#000000;" class="notheme">63<br />(17) </td> <td style="background: #FF7800; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">75<br />(24) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily minimum °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #FFF4EA; color:#000000;" class="notheme">43<br />(6) </td> <td style="background: #FFE6CE; color:#000000;" class="notheme">46<br />(8) </td> <td style="background: #FFE6CE; color:#000000;" class="notheme">47<br />(8) </td> <td style="background: #FFDFC0; color:#000000;" class="notheme">49<br />(9) </td> <td style="background: #FFD2A5; color:#000000;" class="notheme">52<br />(11) </td> <td style="background: #FFC489; color:#000000;" class="notheme">56<br />(13) </td> <td style="background: #FFBD7C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">57<br />(14) </td> <td style="background: #FFBD7C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">57<br />(14) </td> <td style="background: #FFC489; color:#000000;" class="notheme">55<br />(13) </td> <td style="background: #FFD2A5; color:#000000;" class="notheme">51<br />(11) </td> <td style="background: #FFE6CE; color:#000000;" class="notheme">46<br />(8) </td> <td style="background: #FFF4EA; color:#000000;" class="notheme">43<br />(6) </td> <td style="background: #FFD9B3; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">50<br />(10) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record low °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #C6C6FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">22<br />(−6) </td> <td style="background: #D1D1FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">25<br />(−4) </td> <td style="background: #DBDBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">28<br />(−2) </td> <td style="background: #F1F1FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">35<br />(2) </td> <td style="background: #F6F6FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">37<br />(3) </td> <td style="background: #FFFBF8; color:#000000;" class="notheme">41<br />(5) </td> <td style="background: #FFFBF8; color:#000000;" class="notheme">41<br />(5) </td> <td style="background: #FCFCFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">40<br />(4) </td> <td style="background: #F6F6FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">38<br />(3) </td> <td style="background: #F1F1FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">36<br />(2) </td> <td style="background: #DBDBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">28<br />(−2) </td> <td style="background: #C0C0FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">19<br />(−7) </td> <td style="background: #C0C0FF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">19<br />(−7) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average <a href="/wiki/Precipitation" title="Precipitation">precipitation</a> inches (mm) </th> <td style="background: #4C4CFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">4.9<br />(120) </td> <td style="background: #5B5BFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">4.1<br />(100) </td> <td style="background: #9595FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.8<br />(71) </td> <td style="background: #E7E7FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.6<br />(15) </td> <td style="background: #F3F3FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.3<br />(7.6) </td> <td style="background: #FBFBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.1<br />(2.5) </td> <td style="background: #FBFBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.1<br />(2.5) </td> <td style="background: #FBFBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.1<br />(2.5) </td> <td style="background: #F3F3FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.3<br />(7.6) </td> <td style="background: #E4E4FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.7<br />(18) </td> <td style="background: #9191FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.8<br />(71) </td> <td style="background: #4C4CFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">4.8<br />(120) </td> <td style="background: #B5B5FF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">22.8<br />(580) </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="14" style="text-align:center;font-size:95%;"><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2010)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <div> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="width:auto; text-align:center; line-height:1.2em;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="14">Climate data for Sunnyvale, California </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Month </th> <th scope="col">Jan </th> <th scope="col">Feb </th> <th scope="col">Mar </th> <th scope="col">Apr </th> <th scope="col">May </th> <th scope="col">Jun </th> <th scope="col">Jul </th> <th scope="col">Aug </th> <th scope="col">Sep </th> <th scope="col">Oct </th> <th scope="col">Nov </th> <th scope="col">Dec </th> <th scope="col" style="border-left-width:medium">Year </th></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record high °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #FF7800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">75<br />(24) </td> <td style="background: #FF5600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">84<br />(29) </td> <td style="background: #FF5600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">85<br />(29) </td> <td style="background: #FF3300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">94<br />(34) </td> <td style="background: #FF1800; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">100<br />(38) </td> <td style="background: #F80000; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">107<br />(42) </td> <td style="background: #FF0300; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">105<br />(41) </td> <td style="background: #FF1800; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">101<br />(38) </td> <td style="background: #FF0300; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">105<br />(41) </td> <td style="background: #FF1800; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">100<br />(38) </td> <td style="background: #FF4100; color:#000000;" class="notheme">89<br />(32) </td> <td style="background: #FF7800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">75<br />(24) </td> <td style="background: #F80000; color:#FFFFFF; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">107<br />(42) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily maximum °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #FFAF60; color:#000000;" class="notheme">61<br />(16) </td> <td style="background: #FFA852; color:#000000;" class="notheme">62<br />(17) </td> <td style="background: #FFA144; color:#000000;" class="notheme">64<br />(18) </td> <td style="background: #FF8D1B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">69<br />(21) </td> <td style="background: #FF7F00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">73<br />(23) </td> <td style="background: #FF7100; color:#000000;" class="notheme">77<br />(25) </td> <td style="background: #FF6A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">79<br />(26) </td> <td style="background: #FF6A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">79<br />(26) </td> <td style="background: #FF6A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">78<br />(26) </td> <td style="background: #FF7F00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">73<br />(23) </td> <td style="background: #FFA144; color:#000000;" class="notheme">64<br />(18) </td> <td style="background: #FFAF60; color:#000000;" class="notheme">61<br />(16) </td> <td style="background: #FF8D1B; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">70<br />(21) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily minimum °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #FFF4EA; color:#000000;" class="notheme">42<br />(6) </td> <td style="background: #FFF4EA; color:#000000;" class="notheme">43<br />(6) </td> <td style="background: #FFE6CE; color:#000000;" class="notheme">46<br />(8) </td> <td style="background: #FFE6CE; color:#000000;" class="notheme">47<br />(8) </td> <td style="background: #FFD2A5; color:#000000;" class="notheme">51<br />(11) </td> <td style="background: #FFC489; color:#000000;" class="notheme">55<br />(13) </td> <td style="background: #FFBD7C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">57<br />(14) </td> <td style="background: #FFBD7C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">57<br />(14) </td> <td style="background: #FFC489; color:#000000;" class="notheme">55<br />(13) </td> <td style="background: #FFD9B3; color:#000000;" class="notheme">50<br />(10) </td> <td style="background: #FFEDDC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">44<br />(7) </td> <td style="background: #FFF4EA; color:#000000;" class="notheme">42<br />(6) </td> <td style="background: #FFD9B3; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">49<br />(10) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record low °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #C6C6FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">21<br />(−6) </td> <td style="background: #D1D1FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">24<br />(−4) </td> <td style="background: #C6C6FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">22<br />(−6) </td> <td style="background: #E1E1FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">31<br />(−1) </td> <td style="background: #ECECFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">33<br />(1) </td> <td style="background: #FCFCFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">40<br />(4) </td> <td style="background: #FFFBF8; color:#000000;" class="notheme">41<br />(5) </td> <td style="background: #FFEDDC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">44<br />(7) </td> <td style="background: #FFFBF8; color:#000000;" class="notheme">41<br />(5) </td> <td style="background: #ECECFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">34<br />(1) </td> <td style="background: #B6B6FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">15<br />(−9) </td> <td style="background: #C0C0FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">20<br />(−7) </td> <td style="background: #B6B6FF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">15<br />(−9) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average <a href="/wiki/Precipitation" title="Precipitation">precipitation</a> inches (mm) </th> <td style="background: #8484FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.24<br />(82) </td> <td style="background: #7A7AFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.18<br />(81) </td> <td style="background: #9B9BFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.65<br />(67) </td> <td style="background: #DBDBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.89<br />(23) </td> <td style="background: #F1F1FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.35<br />(8.9) </td> <td style="background: #FAFAFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.11<br />(2.8) </td> <td style="background: #FDFDFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.03<br />(0.76) </td> <td style="background: #FCFCFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.08<br />(2.0) </td> <td style="background: #F7F7FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.19<br />(4.8) </td> <td style="background: #DEDEFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.85<br />(22) </td> <td style="background: #B8B8FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">1.83<br />(46) </td> <td style="background: #A7A7FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.31<br />(59) </td> <td style="background: #CCCCFF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">15.71<br />(399.26) </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="14" style="text-align:center;font-size:95%;">Source: National Weather Service<sup id="cite_ref-NWS_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NWS-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <div> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="width:auto; text-align:center; line-height:1.2em;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="14">Climate data for Mountain View, California </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Month </th> <th scope="col">Jan </th> <th scope="col">Feb </th> <th scope="col">Mar </th> <th scope="col">Apr </th> <th scope="col">May </th> <th scope="col">Jun </th> <th scope="col">Jul </th> <th scope="col">Aug </th> <th scope="col">Sep </th> <th scope="col">Oct </th> <th scope="col">Nov </th> <th scope="col">Dec </th> <th scope="col" style="border-left-width:medium">Year </th></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily maximum °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #FFB66E; color:#000000;" class="notheme">59<br />(15) </td> <td style="background: #FFA852; color:#000000;" class="notheme">63<br />(17) </td> <td style="background: #FFA144; color:#000000;" class="notheme">64<br />(18) </td> <td style="background: #FF8D1B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">70<br />(21) </td> <td style="background: #FF7F00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">73<br />(23) </td> <td style="background: #FF7100; color:#000000;" class="notheme">77<br />(25) </td> <td style="background: #FF6A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">79<br />(26) </td> <td style="background: #FF6A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">79<br />(26) </td> <td style="background: #FF6A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">79<br />(26) </td> <td style="background: #FF7F00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">73<br />(23) </td> <td style="background: #FFA144; color:#000000;" class="notheme">64<br />(18) </td> <td style="background: #FFB66E; color:#000000;" class="notheme">59<br />(15) </td> <td style="background: #FF8D1B; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">70<br />(21) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily minimum °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #FFFBF8; color:#000000;" class="notheme">41<br />(5) </td> <td style="background: #FFF4EA; color:#000000;" class="notheme">43<br />(6) </td> <td style="background: #FFE6CE; color:#000000;" class="notheme">46<br />(8) </td> <td style="background: #FFE6CE; color:#000000;" class="notheme">46<br />(8) </td> <td style="background: #FFD2A5; color:#000000;" class="notheme">52<br />(11) </td> <td style="background: #FFD2A5; color:#000000;" class="notheme">52<br />(11) </td> <td style="background: #FFD2A5; color:#000000;" class="notheme">52<br />(11) </td> <td style="background: #FFD2A5; color:#000000;" class="notheme">52<br />(11) </td> <td style="background: #FFD2A5; color:#000000;" class="notheme">52<br />(11) </td> <td style="background: #FFDFC0; color:#000000;" class="notheme">48<br />(9) </td> <td style="background: #FFEDDC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">45<br />(7) </td> <td style="background: #FFFBF8; color:#000000;" class="notheme">41<br />(5) </td> <td style="background: #FFDFC0; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">48<br />(9) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average <a href="/wiki/Precipitation" title="Precipitation">precipitation</a> inches (mm) </th> <td style="background: #8484FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.24<br />(82.3) </td> <td style="background: #7A7AFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.18<br />(80.8) </td> <td style="background: #9A9AFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.65<br />(67.3) </td> <td style="background: #DCDCFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.89<br />(22.6) </td> <td style="background: #F1F1FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.35<br />(8.9) </td> <td style="background: #FAFAFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.11<br />(2.8) </td> <td style="background: #FDFDFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.03<br />(0.8) </td> <td style="background: #FCFCFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.08<br />(2.0) </td> <td style="background: #F7F7FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.19<br />(4.8) </td> <td style="background: #DEDEFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.85<br />(21.6) </td> <td style="background: #B7B7FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">1.83<br />(46.5) </td> <td style="background: #A7A7FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.31<br />(58.7) </td> <td style="background: #CCCCFF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">15.71<br />(399.1) </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="14" style="text-align:center;font-size:95%;">Source: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/wxclimatology/monthly/graph/94043?from=text_bottomnav_business#climograph">http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/wxclimatology/monthly/graph/94043?from=text_bottomnav_business#climograph</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span 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class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.valleywater.org/sites/default/files/Letter%20from%20Chair%20Varela%20-%20Sp.pdf">ValleyWater - El Distrito de Aguas del Valle de Santa Clara está organizando reuniones comunitarias el 6, 12 y 17 de abril sobre las inundaciones y los esfuerzos de prevención de riesgos de inundación</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Poland,_Ireland_1988-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Poland,_Ireland_1988_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Poland,_Ireland_1988_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Poland,_Ireland_1988_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output 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class="citation book cs1">Poland, Joseph Fairfield; Ireland, R. 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Silicon Valley</i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Santa_Clara_Valley&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.historysanjose.org">History San José collects, preserves and celebrates the stories of diversity and innovation in San José and the Santa Clara Valley</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mthamilton.ucolick.org/hamcam/">Up-to-the-minute view of San Jose from the Mount Hamilton web camera</a></li></ul> <div class="navbox-styles"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output 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title="Novato, California">Novato</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palo_Alto,_California" title="Palo Alto, California">Palo Alto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petaluma,_California" title="Petaluma, California">Petaluma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pittsburg,_California" title="Pittsburg, California">Pittsburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pleasanton,_California" title="Pleasanton, California">Pleasanton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Redwood_City,_California" title="Redwood City, California">Redwood City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Leandro,_California" title="San Leandro, California">San Leandro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Rafael,_California" title="San Rafael, California">San Rafael</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Ramon,_California" title="San Ramon, California">San Ramon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_San_Francisco,_California" title="South San Francisco, California">South San Francisco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_City,_California" title="Union City, California">Union City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walnut_Creek,_California" title="Walnut Creek, California">Walnut Creek</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#ffe16d;width:1%">25k–50k</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Belmont,_California" title="Belmont, California">Belmont</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benicia,_California" title="Benicia, California">Benicia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burlingame,_California" title="Burlingame, California">Burlingame</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Campbell,_California" title="Campbell, California">Campbell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Danville,_California" title="Danville, California">Danville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Palo_Alto,_California" title="East Palo Alto, California">East Palo Alto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/El_Cerrito,_California" title="El Cerrito, California">El Cerrito</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foster_City,_California" title="Foster City, California">Foster City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hercules,_California" title="Hercules, California">Hercules</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lafayette,_California" title="Lafayette, California">Lafayette</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Los_Altos,_California" title="Los Altos, California">Los Altos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Los_Gatos,_California" title="Los Gatos, California">Los Gatos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martinez,_California" title="Martinez, California">Martinez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Menlo_Park,_California" title="Menlo Park, California">Menlo Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morgan_Hill,_California" title="Morgan Hill, California">Morgan Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newark,_California" title="Newark, California">Newark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oakley,_California" title="Oakley, California">Oakley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pacifica,_California" title="Pacifica, California">Pacifica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pleasant_Hill,_California" title="Pleasant Hill, California">Pleasant Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rohnert_Park,_California" title="Rohnert Park, California">Rohnert Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Bruno,_California" title="San Bruno, California">San Bruno</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Carlos,_California" title="San Carlos, California">San Carlos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Pablo,_California" title="San Pablo, California">San Pablo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saratoga,_California" title="Saratoga, California">Saratoga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suisun_City,_California" title="Suisun City, California">Suisun City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Windsor,_California" title="Windsor, California">Windsor</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#ffe16d;width:1%">10k–25k</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albany,_California" title="Albany, California">Albany</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Canyon,_California" title="American Canyon, California">American Canyon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clayton,_California" title="Clayton, California">Clayton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corte_Madera,_California" title="Corte Madera, California">Corte Madera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dixon,_California" title="Dixon, California">Dixon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emeryville,_California" title="Emeryville, California">Emeryville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Half_Moon_Bay,_California" title="Half Moon Bay, California">Half Moon Bay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Healdsburg,_California" title="Healdsburg, California">Healdsburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hillsborough,_California" title="Hillsborough, California">Hillsborough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Larkspur,_California" title="Larkspur, California">Larkspur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mill_Valley,_California" title="Mill Valley, California">Mill Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Millbrae,_California" title="Millbrae, California">Millbrae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moraga,_California" title="Moraga, California">Moraga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orinda,_California" title="Orinda, California">Orinda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Piedmont,_California" title="Piedmont, California">Piedmont</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pinole,_California" title="Pinole, California">Pinole</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rio_Vista,_California" title="Rio Vista, California">Rio Vista</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Anselmo,_California" title="San Anselmo, California">San Anselmo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sonoma,_California" title="Sonoma, California">Sonoma</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#ffe16d;width:1%">Under 10k</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Atherton,_California" title="Atherton, California">Atherton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belvedere,_California" title="Belvedere, California">Belvedere</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brisbane,_California" title="Brisbane, California">Brisbane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calistoga,_California" title="Calistoga, California">Calistoga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cloverdale,_California" title="Cloverdale, California">Cloverdale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colma,_California" title="Colma, California">Colma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cotati,_California" title="Cotati, California">Cotati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fairfax,_California" title="Fairfax, California">Fairfax</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Los_Altos_Hills,_California" title="Los Altos Hills, California">Los Altos Hills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monte_Sereno,_California" title="Monte Sereno, California">Monte Sereno</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portola_Valley,_California" title="Portola Valley, California">Portola Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ross,_California" title="Ross, California">Ross</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St._Helena,_California" title="St. Helena, California">St. Helena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sausalito,_California" title="Sausalito, California">Sausalito</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sebastopol,_California" title="Sebastopol, California">Sebastopol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tiburon,_California" title="Tiburon, California">Tiburon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Woodside,_California" title="Woodside, California">Woodside</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yountville,_California" title="Yountville, California">Yountville</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #FCC200;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Census-designated_place" title="Census-designated place">CDPs</a><br />over 10k</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alamo,_California" title="Alamo, California">Alamo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alum_Rock,_California" class="mw-redirect" title="Alum Rock, California">Alum Rock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ashland,_California" title="Ashland, California">Ashland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bay_Point,_California" title="Bay Point, California">Bay Point</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Castro_Valley,_California" title="Castro Valley, California">Castro Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cherryland,_California" title="Cherryland, California">Cherryland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Discovery_Bay,_California" title="Discovery Bay, California">Discovery Bay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/El_Sobrante,_Contra_Costa_County,_California" title="El Sobrante, Contra Costa County, California">El Sobrante</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fairview,_California" title="Fairview, California">Fairview</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Fair_Oaks,_California" title="North Fair Oaks, California">North Fair Oaks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Lorenzo,_California" title="San Lorenzo, California">San Lorenzo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stanford,_California" title="Stanford, California">Stanford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tamalpais-Homestead_Valley,_California" title="Tamalpais-Homestead Valley, California">Tamalpais-Homestead Valley</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #FCC200;width:1%">Sub-regions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/East_Bay" title="East Bay">East Bay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Bay_(San_Francisco_Bay_Area)" title="North Bay (San Francisco Bay Area)">North Bay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Peninsula" title="San Francisco Peninsula">San Francisco Peninsula</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Santa Clara Valley</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" 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aria-labelledby="State_of_California" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background-color:#FCC200;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:California" title="Template:California"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:California" title="Template talk:California"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:California" title="Special:EditPage/Template:California"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="State_of_California" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/U.S._state" title="U.S. state">State</a> of <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a></div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="background-color:#FCC200;"><div><b><a href="/wiki/Sacramento,_California" title="Sacramento, California">Sacramento</a></b> (capital)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color:#FCC200;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_California" title="Outline of California">Topics</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Culture_of_California" title="Culture of California">Culture</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cuisine_of_California" title="Cuisine of California">food</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_California" title="Music of California">music</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Languages_of_California" class="mw-redirect" title="Languages of California">languages</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/California_sound" title="California sound">California sound</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sports_in_California" title="Sports in California">sports</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/California_Dream" title="California Dream">California Dream</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crime_in_California" title="Crime in California">Crime</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_California" title="Demographics of California">Demographics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_California" title="List of earthquakes in California">Earthquakes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Economy_of_California" title="Economy of California">Economy</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Agriculture_in_California" title="Agriculture in California">agriculture</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Education_in_California" title="Education in California">Education</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Environment_of_California" title="Environment of California">Environment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geography_of_California" title="Geography of California">Geography</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Climate_of_California" title="Climate of California">climate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ecology_of_California" title="Ecology of California">ecology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/California_Floristic_Province" title="California Floristic Province">flora</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fauna_of_California" title="Fauna of California">fauna</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Government_of_California" title="Government of California">Government</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/California_State_Capitol" title="California State Capitol">Capitol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Districts_in_California" title="Districts in California">districts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_California" title="Governor of California">governor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/California_State_Legislature" title="California State Legislature">legislature</a></li> <li><a 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href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_California" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in California">NRHP listings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_California" title="Politics of California">Politics</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_States_congressional_delegations_from_California" title="United States congressional delegations from California">congressional delegations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elections_in_California" title="Elections in California">elections</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_people_from_California" title="List of people from California">People</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/California_protected_areas" class="mw-redirect" title="California protected areas">Protected areas</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_California_state_parks" title="List of California state parks">state parks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_California_Historical_Landmarks" title="List of California Historical Landmarks">state historic landmarks</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_California_state_symbols" title="List of California state symbols">Symbols</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transportation_in_California" title="Transportation in California">Transportation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Water_in_California" title="Water in California">Water</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Index_of_California-related_articles" title="Index of California-related articles">Index of articles</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color:#FCC200;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_regions_of_California" title="List of regions of California">Regions</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Antelope_Valley" title="Antelope Valley">Antelope Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Big_Sur" title="Big Sur">Big Sur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/California_Coast_Ranges" title="California Coast Ranges">California Coast Ranges</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cascade_Range" title="Cascade Range">Cascade Range</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_California" title="Central California">Central California</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Coast_(California)" title="Central Coast (California)">Central Coast</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Valley_(California)" title="Central Valley (California)">Central Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Channel_Islands_(California)" title="Channel Islands (California)">Channel Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coachella_Valley" title="Coachella Valley">Coachella Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coastal_California" title="Coastal California">Coastal California</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conejo_Valley" title="Conejo Valley">Conejo Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cucamonga_Valley" title="Cucamonga Valley">Cucamonga Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Death_Valley" title="Death Valley">Death Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Bay_(San_Francisco_Bay_Area)" class="mw-redirect" title="East Bay (San Francisco Bay Area)">East Bay (SF Bay Area)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_County,_San_Diego" title="East County, San Diego">East County (SD)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eastern_California" title="Eastern California">Eastern California</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emerald_Triangle" title="Emerald Triangle">Emerald Triangle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gold_Country" title="Gold Country">Gold Country</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Basin" title="Great Basin">Great Basin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Bernardino_Valley" title="San Bernardino Valley">Greater San Bernardino</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inland_Empire" title="Inland Empire">Inland Empire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Klamath_Basin" title="Klamath Basin">Klamath Basin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lake_Tahoe" title="Lake Tahoe">Lake Tahoe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Los_Angeles_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Greater Los Angeles Area">Greater Los Angeles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Basin" title="Los Angeles Basin">Los Angeles Basin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lost_Coast" title="Lost Coast">Lost Coast</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mojave_Desert" title="Mojave Desert">Mojave Desert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mountain_Empire,_San_Diego" title="Mountain Empire, San Diego">Mountain Empire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Bay_(San_Francisco_Bay_Area)" title="North Bay (San Francisco Bay Area)">North Bay (SF)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Coast_(California)" title="North Coast (California)">North Coast</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_County_(San_Diego_area)" title="North County (San Diego area)">North County (SD)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_California" title="Northern California">Northern California</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orange_Coast" title="Orange Coast">Orange Coast</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Owens_Valley" title="Owens Valley">Owens Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oxnard_Plain" 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