Big Beach
Big Beach is a beach in North Carolina, at a recorded elevation of 1 m. Sand Hill stands 17 m to the northeast, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Sailfish Park, a park 0.8 miles away. Green Swamp Byway passes 8.7 miles off. 3 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1 m
How to reach it
- 8.7 mi off the Green Swamp Byway
- 24.3 mi off the Brunswick Town Road
Named places within 25 miles
- Sailfish Park: 0.8 mi
- Holden Beach Park: 4.4 mi
- Holden Beach Pavilion: 4.6 mi
- Town Center Park: 5.3 mi
- Mulberry Street Park: 5.3 mi
- Enr Esturine Preserve: 3.8 mi
- Wrc Sunset Harbor Access-Lockwood Folly: 7.8 mi
- Wrc Sunset Harbor Access-Lockwood Folly: 7.8 mi
- Bird Island Reserve: 11.0 mi
- Green Swamp Preserve: 13.4 mi
- Buoy 1: 18.0 mi
- Buoy 2: 18.0 mi
- Battery Shipp: 18.4 mi
- Battery Bagley: 18.5 mi
- Battery Swift: 18.7 mi
- Holden Beach: 2.5 mi
- Ocean Isle Beach: 5.4 mi
- Bald Beach: 9.3 mi
- Long Beach: 11.0 mi
- Oak Island Cabana: 13.2 mi
- Oak Island Lighthouse: 17.9 mi
- Bald Head Lighthouse: 20.0 mi
- Supply Shed: 20.0 mi
- Captain Charlie’s I: 22.2 mi
- Captain Charlie’s II: 22.2 mi
- Museum of Coastal Carolina: 5.2 mi
- Old Bridge Museum: 9.7 mi
- North Carolina Maritime Museum at Southport: 18.9 mi
- Fort Johnston: 18.9 mi
- North Myrtle Beach Area Historical Museum: 19.7 mi
- Fly-Trap Farm: 5.1 mi
- Hughes & Hughes Nursery: 14.7 mi
- Williams Plantworks LLC: 18.6 mi
- Caswell Avenue Community Garden: 18.6 mi
- The Swamp Patk Zip Line and ATV Center: 6.5 mi
- Thor: 18.7 mi
- T.I.G.E.R.S. Presevation Station: 24.0 mi
- Big Bluff: 15.1 mi
- Barnes Bluff: 16.0 mi
- Star Bluff: 23.5 mi
- Sand Hill: 16.8 mi
- Myrtle Head: 18.3 mi
- Sand Hill: 21.2 mi
- OIB Sign: 5.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Big Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sand Hill | NE 35° | 17 m | 21.2 mi |
| Sand Hill | NW 322° | 13 m | 16.8 mi |
| Myrtle Head | NNW 334° | 13 m | 18.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:18 | 18:52 | 19:25 |
| June solstice | 06:04 | 19:51 | 20:28 |
| September equinox | 07:02 | 18:39 | 19:12 |
| December solstice | 07:15 | 16:31 | 17:09 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Aug–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 46 | 48 | 55 | 63 | 70 | 77 | 80 | 79 | 75 | 65 | 55 | 49 |
| Precip in | 3.8 | 3.6 | 4.2 | 3.5 | 3.8 | 4.5 | 5.2 | 6.9 | 9.7 | 4.2 | 3.6 | 3.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Shallotte AG, 3 mi away.
Mean tidal range 4.26 ft at the nearest NOAA station.
NOAA CO-OPS station Bowen Point, Shallotte Inlet, NC, 2 miaway — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357768732
Day trips start here
- Oak Island · 12 mi
- Southport · 19 mi
- Kure Beach · 26 mi
- Carolina Beach · 27 mi
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