Black Beach
Black Beach is a beach in Massachusetts, at a recorded elevation of 0 m. Peaked Hill stands 95 m to the south-southwest, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Great Sippewissett Marsh, a nature reserve 0.3 miles away. Old King's Highway (Route 6A) passes 14 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 0 m
How to reach it
- 13.8 mi off the Old King's Highway (Route 6A), National
Named places within 25 miles
- Great Sippewissett Marsh: 0.3 mi
- Gt. Sippiwissett Marsh: 0.3 mi
- Marshlands: 0.3 mi
- Great Sippewissett Marsh: 0.4 mi
- Great Sippewissett Marsh: 0.4 mi
- Chappaquoit Beach: 0.7 mi
- Big Beach: 1.0 mi
- Public Beach Quissett Harbor: 3.4 mi
- Public Beach Buzzards Bay: 3.4 mi
- Surf Drive Beach: 3.7 mi
- Swift Park: 0.9 mi
- Cathedral Pines: 1.0 mi
- John L. Neill Youth Baseball Complex: 2.6 mi
- Trotting Park Skate Park: 2.7 mi
- Trotting Park: 2.9 mi
- Telegraph Hill: 1.0 mi
- Swifts Hill: 1.7 mi
- Riddle Hill: 2.4 mi
- The Knob: 3.5 mi
- Mt. Otis: 4.6 mi
- Katharine Lee Bates: 3.2 mi
- Falmouth Police Memorial: 3.4 mi
- Woods Holl: 4.8 mi
- Nobska Lighthouse: 5.3 mi
- HU-25 Falcon: 8.0 mi
- Saconesset Homestead and Museum: 1.3 mi
- Falmouth Museums on the Green: 2.9 mi
- Woods Hole Historical Museum: 4.8 mi
- Cape Cod Children's Museum: 8.8 mi
- Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Museum: 9.2 mi
- The Liberté: 3.9 mi
- Falmouth Road Race Finish Line: 4.1 mi
- Falmouth Road Race Starting Line: 4.8 mi
- Flying Horses Carousel: 10.4 mi
- Marstons Mills Herring Run: 12.7 mi
- Falmouth Cliffs: 2.1 mi
- Falmouth Heights: 4.8 mi
- Nobska Point: 5.9 mi
- The Cliffs: 7.7 mi
- Husselton Head: 8.8 mi
- Colonial Gardens: 2.9 mi
- Spohr Public Gardens: 3.4 mi
- Garden of Our Lady: 4.6 mi
- Mashpee Community Garden: 9.3 mi
- Dexter Rhododendron Garden: 12.9 mi
- Helen Keller: 4.8 mi
- Whale Tail: 4.8 mi
- Rachel Carson: 4.8 mi
- Tree of Bike: 5.1 mi
- Buddha: 8.3 mi
- Nobska Point Light: 5.3 mi
- Fog Signal Building: 8.0 mi
- West Chop Light: 8.0 mi
- Keeper's House: 8.0 mi
- Oil House: 8.1 mi
- Rest Area SR-25 Welcome Center: 13.2 mi
- truck pull-off: 14.7 mi
- truck pull-off: 14.8 mi
- Yarmouth Tourist Information Center: 19.6 mi
- truck pull-off: 22.0 mi
- Bourne Recreation Area: 11.1 mi
- Herring Run Recreational Area: 13.3 mi
- Crystal Spring: 11.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 18.0 miles of Black Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peaked Hill | SSW 196° | 94.8 m | 16.9 mi |
| Pine Hill | NNE 27° | 93 m | 9.1 mi |
| Telegraph Hill | NE 40° | 85 m | 12.8 mi |
| Flatrock Hill | NNE 26° | 82 m | 12.6 mi |
| Avery Hill | NNE 25° | 80 m | 10.7 mi |
| Prospect Hill | SSW 198° | 78 m | 16.4 mi |
| Discovery Hill | NE 45° | 77 m | 13.0 mi |
| Deer Horn Hill | NNE 32° | 71 m | 5.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:47 | 18:18 | 18:55 |
| June solstice | 05:09 | 19:39 | 20:21 |
| September equinox | 06:31 | 18:05 | 18:42 |
| December solstice | 07:07 | 15:31 | 16:16 |
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 | 32 | 33 | 37 | 47 | 56 | 65 | 72 | 72 | 66 | 56 | 46 | 38 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Woods Hole Golf Club, 4 mi away.
Mean tidal range 3.82 ft at the nearest NOAA station.
NOAA CO-OPS station Chappaquoit Point, West Falmouth Harbor, MA, under a mileaway — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/358274870
Day trips start here
- Marion · 10 mi
- Mattapoisett · 10 mi
- SouthCoast · 11 mi
- Wareham · 12 mi
- Rochester · 13 mi
- New Bedford · 15 mi
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