Monterey Bay is a bay on the central California coast, an open-ocean embayment of the Pacific Ocean between the Monterey Peninsula in the south and Santa Cruz in the north. The tide is mixed semidiurnal, with a mean range of 3.54 ft (1.08 m) at the Monterey station.
- Type
- Bay
- Location
- California, United States
- Setting
- On the central California coast, an open-ocean embayment of the Pacific Ocean between the Monterey Peninsula in the south and Santa Cruz in the north
- Tidal range
- The tide is mixed semidiurnal, with a mean range of 3.54 ft (1.08 m) at the Monterey station.
- Notable
- The Monterey Submarine Canyon, with a maximum depth comparable to the Grand Canyon's, runs into the bay from the open Pacific; the bay lies within NOAA's Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, designated in 1992 (NOAA NMS / MBARI).
