La Jolla From Above

La Jolla, sitting proudly on the edge of the Pacific Ocean, presents one extraordinary panorama after another, it occupies roughly seven miles of narrow, curving coastline that alternates sandy beaches, steep bluffs, and rocky caves. Located 14 miles northwest of downtown San Diego, 115 miles south of Los Angeles and 30 miles north of Mexico, La Jolla's unofficial boundaries extend from the hills curving in and above Pacific Beach on the south to Del Mar along Torrey Pines Road on the north and from the Pacific Ocean east to just beyond interstate 5. Its 6,482 acres contain approximately 13,000 housing units, which are shared by approximately 35,000 La Jolla residents.

Weather blesses the region with its near perfection, a comfortable 64 degrees is the mean temperature and the days down clear on the average of 265 times a year. There is only a 14 degree spread between summer highs of 71 degrees and winter lows of 57 degrees. The annual ocean temperature is 62 degrees warming up to 68 degrees during the summer months. But even on the warmest days, the entire village is bathed in gentle ocean breezes.

La Jolla's scenery is varied and exquisitely beautiful. This masterpiece of nature combines picturesque canyons with an ever-changing sea, sandy coves with rocky coves and mesas with distant mountains rising into glorious skies. La Jolla's casually sophisticated ambiance and spectacular scenery rival Europe's famed Riviera.

A bird's-eye view of La Jolla as it is today makes it difficult to envision the collection of tiny cottages and dusty chaparral that it was only a hundred years ago.