

Weather at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk is a little easier to deal with, mostly because the beach boardwalk has the weather factored into their retail business.

Live Santa Cruz Beach Cam, captured at the Crow’s Nest “Banana belt” is an informal geographic term used to describe a segment of a larger geographic region which enjoys warmer weather conditions than the region as a whole, especially in the wintertime. So the path the sun shines across Santa Cruz, makes for beautiful weather and is sometimes referred to as a Banana Belt. Our afternoon sun widens to warm all of Santa Cruz and then thins to a sliver again finally disappearing from the east side of town. If you were to look at Santa Cruz from the ocean in the morning, right at sunrise you would notice the first slivers of light on the sun facing west side of town.

Yep, A Banana! Have you noticed that for almost every beach in Santa Cruz the ocean is to the south? Santa Cruz is mostly built on southern facing hillsides, which face the sun year round, summer through winter. Santa Cruz is sometimes referred to as a Banana belt, not because we have anything to do with growing bananas but because the path that the sun shines across Santa Cruz is actually shaped like a banana.
