{"id":7091,"date":"2012-07-19T11:44:46","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T18:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=7091"},"modified":"2012-07-19T12:26:02","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T19:26:02","slug":"california-beaches-why-people-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-beaches-why-people-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do People Flock to California Beaches? To Get Out of the Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/staycool.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why do people visit the California coast?<\/strong> The perception is that they want to swim and get wet. However, the figures and facts don&#8217;t necessarily bare that theory out.\u00a0 Just talk to beach concessionaires and they&#8217;ll tell you what the driving force is: weather.\u00a0 In a study of beach use published at USC&#8217;s Population Research Center, of those who said they do go to the beach, only 38.46% said that they actually get in the water when they go to the beach. Almost half of the respondents who went to the beach, but did not get in the water, cited pollution as the reason they avoided water contact.\u00a0 The other 50% who didn&#8217;t mention pollution, but still opted not to go into the ocean, cited issues such as dangers, discomfort, or no interest. What people ARE interested in is staying cool. Temperatures at the beach are typically 10 to 30 degrees cooler than inland destinations such as valleys, deserts and mountains. SeeCalifornia.com did a survery of temperatures this weekend to show the variation in weather depending on your location.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WEEKEND WEATHER IN CALIFORNIA 2012<\/strong>\u00a0 (supplied by Weather.com)<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>City &amp; Temp Fahrenheit:\u00a0 Fri July 20 | Sat July 21 | Sun July 22<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/california\/regions-deserts.html\">DESERT<\/a><br \/>\nNEEDLES\u00a0 112, 113, 109<br \/>\nPALM DESERT\u00a0 109, 112, 107<br \/>\nDEATH VALLEY\u00a0 116, 120, 120<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/california\/regions-sierra-mountains.html\">MOUNTAINS<\/a><br \/>\nBIG BEAR LAKE 82, 84, 82<br \/>\nIDYLLWILD 86, 88, 86<br \/>\nMAMMOTH LAKES\u00a0 79, 83, 83<br \/>\nSEQUOIA KINGS CANYON\u00a0 98, 101, 102<br \/>\nSOUTH LAKE TAHOE\u00a0 79, 83, 81<br \/>\nYOSEMITE VALLEY\u00a0 96, 100, 101<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/california\/regions-central-valley.html\">INLAND<\/a><br \/>\nBAKERSFIELD\u00a0 97, 100, 101<br \/>\nCORNING\u00a0 94, 101,99<br \/>\nFRESNO\u00a0 99, 103, 103<br \/>\nDOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES\u00a0 89, 90, 91<br \/>\nRIVERSIDE\u00a0 98, 100, 101<br \/>\nSACRAMENTO\u00a0 95, 101, 100<br \/>\nSAN JOSE\u00a0 81, 86, 85<br \/>\nSONORA\u00a0 95, 100, 100<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/beaches\/directory.html\">BEACHES<\/a><br \/>\nEUREKA\u00a0 58, 60, 60<br \/>\nSAN FRANCISCO\u00a0 75, 71, 71<br \/>\nSANTA CRUZ\u00a0 73, 75, 73<br \/>\nPISMO BEACH\u00a0 68, 70, 68<br \/>\nMALIBU\u00a0 75, 73, 73<br \/>\nNEWPORT BEACH\u00a0 77, 78, 79<br \/>\nSAN DIEGO\u00a0 74, 74, 74<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do people visit the California coast? The perception is that they want to swim and get wet. However, the figures and facts don&#8217;t necessarily bare that theory out.\u00a0 Just talk to beach concessionaires and they&#8217;ll tell you what the driving force is: weather.\u00a0 In a study of beach use published at USC&#8217;s Population Research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7091"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}