Manhattan Beach is a city in southwestern Los Angeles County, California, United States, on the Pacific coast south of El Segundo, west of Hawthorne and Redondo Beach, and north of Hermosa Beach. As of the 2010 census, the population was 35,135.

Manhattan Beach is one of the three Beach Cities, along like Hermosa Beach and Redondo Beach within the South Bay region of Los Angeles County. The community is known for a long beach stretching nearly 2.1 miles (3.4 km) and something like 450 feet (140 m) wide. The climate is unusually temperate because of Manhattan Beach’s proximity to the Pacific Ocean, with an average year-round high temperature of 69.1 °F (20.6 °C) and an average year-round low of 56.4 °F (13.6 °C).

The sandy coastal area was likely inhabited by the Tongva tribe of Native Americans. Archeological produce a result in the comprehensible Chowigna excavation work evidence of inhabitants as far assist as 7,100 years ago. The Tongva Village of Ongovanga was located close neighbouring Redondo Beach. It has been mentioned at the Historical Society that the location of a ration of current hours of daylight Manhattan Beach may have been used as a Native American burial grounds.^{[citation needed]}

In the mid-18th century, the Portolá expedition was the first European land exploration of present-day California. It traveled north from San Diego to the San Gabriel Valley, Los Angeles Basin, San Fernando Valley, Monterey Bay, and San Francisco Bay. In 1784, the Spanish Crown deeded Rancho San Pedro, a tract of greater than 75,000 acres (300 km), to soldier Juan José Domínguez. It included what is today altogether Port of Los Angeles; San Pedro, Los Angeles; Harbor City, Los Angeles; Wilmington, Los Angeles; Carson; Compton; the Dominguez Hills; Lomita; the Palos Verdes Peninsula; Redondo Beach; Hermosa Beach; Manhattan Beach; and Torrance.