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Since Newark CA is around 37.5° north latitude, which is 14° north of the Tropic of Cancer, the highest point the sun could possibly appear from Newark is 14° from straight up, which is 76° above the horizon.

You can verify this with the length of the shadow of a stick sticking straight out of the ground measured at solar noon on the summer solstice. If you make sure that the stick is perfectly plumb and that the surface on which the shadow will be cast is perfectly level, then the arctangent of the ratio of the length of the stick's shadow to the stick's height should be close to 14°. For Newark, which is close to 122° west longitude, solar noon would be 1:08 PM PDT.

Since the exact time of the solstice on June 20, 2012 is only three hours after solar noon where you are, the sun's zenith on that day will be slightly higher than on most summer solstices (not enough to notice unless you're taking precise measurements).

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