Big Beach
Big Beach is a beach in Maine, at a recorded elevation of 0 m. Atherton Hill stands 178 m to the north-northwest, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Battery Ferguson, a historic site 0.2 miles away. PEQUAWKET TRAIL SCENIC BYWAY passes 20 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 0 m
How to reach it
- 20.2 mi off the PEQUAWKET TRAIL SCENIC BYWAY
Named places within 25 miles
- Battery Ferguson: 0.2 mi
- Battery Kendrick: 0.2 mi
- Battery Bowdoin: 0.3 mi
- Battery Daniels: 0.3 mi
- Fort Levett: 0.4 mi
- Farm Hill: 0.4 mi
- Meetinghouse Hill: 1.8 mi
- Barren Hill: 3.2 mi
- Hunger Hill: 3.3 mi
- Shore Acres Hill: 4.1 mi
- Cliff House Beach: 0.9 mi
- Fisherman's Point: 0.9 mi
- Picnic Point: 1.0 mi
- Willard Beach: 1.1 mi
- w: 1.1 mi
- Ram Island: 1.0 mi
- Peaks Island Land Preserve: 1.4 mi
- Peaks Island Land Preserve: 1.4 mi
- Peaks Island Land Preserve: 1.5 mi
- Peaks Island Land Preserve: 1.7 mi
- Community Garden: 1.2 mi
- The Parks Department Community Garden: 2.5 mi
- The Cape Community Garden at Maxwell's Farm: 2.7 mi
- Boyd Street Community Garden: 3.0 mi
- Shaw Sculpture Park: 3.0 mi
- Devil's Bathing Beach: 0.3 mi
- Little Beach: 0.3 mi
- Clam Beach: 0.4 mi
- Shell Beach: 0.5 mi
- Bathing Beach: 0.6 mi
- Tug Stamford Propeller: 2.5 mi
- Portland Discovery Land and Sea Tours: 2.6 mi
- Portland Observatory: 2.8 mi
- Elks Club: 5.7 mi
- Ampitheater: 6.7 mi
- Fifth Maine Regiment Museum: 1.2 mi
- Umbrella Cover Museum: 1.2 mi
- Cushing's Point Museum: 1.7 mi
- Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum: 2.5 mi
- Maine Jewish Museum: 2.8 mi
- The Armillary: 2.5 mi
- Seven: 3.0 mi
- Triangles At Work: 3.3 mi
- Duck House: 3.5 mi
- Pinecone: 3.6 mi
- Cunner Ledges: 0.3 mi
- Cod Ledges: 0.4 mi
- The Cliffs: 0.8 mi
- White Head Cliff: 0.9 mi
- Spurwink Rock Ledge: 4.7 mi
- Presumpscot Falls: 6.5 mi
- First Falls: 11.1 mi
- Cascade Falls Waterfall: 12.0 mi
- Bug Light: 1.8 mi
- Limington Rapids Rest Area: 23.3 mi
- Cold Bowling Spring: 24.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.1 miles of Big Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atherton Hill | NNW 330° | 178 m | 14.7 mi |
| Blackstrap Hill | NW 326° | 151 m | 10.1 mi |
| Leighton Hill | NW 320° | 145 m | 9.8 mi |
| Libby Hill | NW 325° | 144 m | 13.7 mi |
| Bruce Hill | NNW 347° | 136 m | 13.2 mi |
| Poplar Ridge | NNW 330° | 133 m | 12.6 mi |
| Blackstrap Hill | NW 322° | 129 m | 9.3 mi |
| Walnut Hill | N 349° | 129 m | 14.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:45 | 18:15 | 18:53 |
| June solstice | 05:00 | 19:43 | 20:27 |
| September equinox | 06:29 | 18:02 | 18:40 |
| December solstice | 07:12 | 15:20 | 16:07 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 24 | 26 | 34 | 45 | 55 | 64 | 70 | 69 | 62 | 50 | 40 | 30 |
| Precip in | 3.5 | 3.5 | 4.1 | 4.4 | 3.7 | 4.1 | 3.4 | 3.6 | 3.8 | 5.3 | 4.2 | 4.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Portland Jetport, 5 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Cushing Island, ME, under a mileaway — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/714625349
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