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Bay Beach

Bay Beach from directly overhead

Bay Beach is a beach in North Carolina, at a recorded elevation of 1 m. Sand Hill stands 17 m to the north-northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Bald Head Island Natural Area, a nature reserve 2.4 miles away. Brunswick Town Road passes 9.4 miles off.

What the record says

Elevation
1 m

How to reach it

Coordinates33.90422, -77.94942

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Marina Park: 3.4 mi
  • Fort Fisher State Recreation Area: 3.5 mi
  • Kingsley Park: 3.8 mi
  • Fort Fisher State Recreation Area: 3.9 mi
  • Southport Community Center: 4.0 mi
Historic sites: 36
  • Cape Fear Quarantine Station: 2.9 mi
  • Battery McDonough: 3.9 mi
  • Battery Caswell: 4.0 mi
  • Battery Madison: 4.0 mi
  • Battery Swift: 4.2 mi
Nature reserves: 27
Attractions: 15
  • Thor: 4.2 mi
  • Tank: 5.6 mi
  • M110: 5.6 mi
  • M-60: 5.6 mi
  • Artillery: 5.6 mi
Museums: 12
Beaches: 10
Gardens: 6
  • Caswell Avenue Community Garden: 4.5 mi
  • Fly-Trap Farm: 22.2 mi
  • Devon Park Community Garden: 22.5 mi
  • Pollinator Garden: 22.5 mi
  • The Transplanted Garden: 22.6 mi
Cliffs: 2
Peaks: 1
  • Sand Hill: 20.3 mi
Artworks: 1
Picnic sites: 1
  • Wynn Plaza Pavilion: 22.8 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Bay Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Sand HillNNW 329°17 m20.3 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1618:5119:24
June solstice06:0219:5020:27
September equinox07:0118:3719:10
December solstice07:1416:2917:07

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 5080 °F: Feb–Jun, Sep–Dec.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F485056637179828176675751
Precip in3.73.34.03.13.44.05.66.88.25.43.43.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Southport 5 N, 7 mi away.

Mean tidal range 4.09 ft at the nearest NOAA station.

NOAA CO-OPS station Zekes Island, NC, 3 miaway — today’s predictions live there.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/1503583758

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