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Balboa to 38th climb

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712, Great Highway, San Francisco, California, 94121, United States
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Climb Stats

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Climb categoryCategory 4
Distance1.97 km / 1.22 miles
Elevation gain95.4 m / 313 ft
Average gradient4.9%
Maximum gradient13.4%
Elevation high119.6 m / 392 ft
Elevation low24.2 m / 79 ft
Climb difficulty score9,530.74

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Climb Rank

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This climb ranks 606,069th out of 2,710,652 worldwide cycling climbs.

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Ranked as the 48,781st most difficult cycling climb of all 337,250 climbs in United States.

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Places 15,587th out of 66,571 cycling climbs in California.

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Ranks 218th out of 2,337 cycling climbs in San Francisco.

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A local climb of note, this is the 5th most difficult cycling climb (out of 16 climbs) in Great Highway.

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