Chappaquiddick Beach
Chappaquiddick Beach is a beach in Massachusetts, at a recorded elevation of 1 m. Peaked Hill stands 95 m to the west, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Chappy Point Beach, a nature reserve 0.5 miles away. Old King's Highway (Route 6A) passes 23 miles off. 40 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
Beach in Dukes County, Massachusetts, United States.
Wikidata Q49320351, joined on its GNIS feature id.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1 m
How to reach it
- 22.9 mi off the Old King's Highway (Route 6A), National
Named places within 25 miles
- Cannonball Park: 1.2 mi
- Robinson Road Recreation Area: 1.3 mi
- Enos Lots: 1.9 mi
- Waban Park: 5.5 mi
- Veira Park: 5.5 mi
- Lighthouse Beach: 0.5 mi
- Fuller Street Beach: 0.8 mi
- Norton Point Beach: 2.5 mi
- Edgartown Beach: 2.5 mi
- South Beach: 2.6 mi
- Chappy Point Beach: 0.5 mi
- Calebs Common: 0.5 mi
- Slater Tract: 0.6 mi
- Lighthouse Beach: 0.6 mi
- Three Ponds Reservation: 0.7 mi
- Sampson Hill: 0.9 mi
- Mill Hill: 1.1 mi
- Washaqua Hill: 1.9 mi
- Telegraph Hill: 6.9 mi
- Tashmoo Hill: 7.4 mi
- The Carnegie Heritage Center: 0.7 mi
- Vincent House Museum: 0.9 mi
- Doctor Daniel Fisher House Museum: 1.0 mi
- Mariposa Museum: 5.7 mi
- Cottage Museum: 5.8 mi
- cannon: 0.6 mi
- ship's anchor: 0.9 mi
- War Memorial: 5.8 mi
- Soldiers Memorial: 5.8 mi
- Nobska Lighthouse: 12.1 mi
- Wasque Point: 3.3 mi
- North Head: 6.7 mi
- Husselton Head: 7.7 mi
- Makonikey Head: 9.8 mi
- Cedar Tree Neck: 10.9 mi
- Big Bridge: 3.4 mi
- Flying Horses Carousel: 5.9 mi
- Polly Hill Arboretum: 9.3 mi
- Falmouth Road Race Finish Line: 12.2 mi
- The Liberté: 12.3 mi
- Whale Tail: 0.7 mi
- Buddha: 12.3 mi
- Helen Keller: 13.2 mi
- Rachel Carson: 13.2 mi
- Tree of Bike: 19.5 mi
- Spohr Public Gardens: 13.2 mi
- Garden of Our Lady: 13.3 mi
- Colonial Gardens: 13.3 mi
- Mashpee Community Garden: 18.3 mi
- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Garden: 20.0 mi
- West Chop Light: 8.4 mi
- Nobska Point Light: 12.1 mi
- Brant Point Light: 22.2 mi
- truck pull-off: 22.8 mi
- Yarmouth Tourist Information Center: 23.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Chappaquiddick Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peaked Hill | W 261° | 95 m | 12.5 mi |
| Pine Hill | N 351° | 93 m | 22.6 mi |
| Avery Hill | N 353° | 80 m | 24.2 mi |
| Prospect Hill | W 264° | 78 m | 12.9 mi |
| Discovery Hill | N 4° | 77 m | 23.5 mi |
| Deer Horn Hill | NNW 346° | 71 m | 19.6 mi |
| Whiting Hill | W 278° | 68 m | 10.6 mi |
| Clay Hill | NNE 19° | 58 m | 22.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:46 | 18:18 | 18:54 |
| June solstice | 05:09 | 19:38 | 20:20 |
| September equinox | 06:30 | 18:05 | 18:41 |
| December solstice | 07:05 | 15:32 | 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 | 33 | 34 | 39 | 48 | 57 | 66 | 72 | 72 | 66 | 56 | 47 | 38 |
| Precip in | 4.1 | 3.6 | 4.8 | 4.2 | 3.7 | 3.4 | 2.6 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 4.6 | 4.2 | 4.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Edgartown, 1 mi away.
Mean tidal range 2.13 ft at the nearest NOAA station.
NOAA CO-OPS station Edgartown, MA, under a mile away — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/358275003
Day trips start here
- Mattapoisett · 25 mi
- SouthCoast · 25 mi
- Marion · 26 mi
- Dartmouth · 29 mi
- New Bedford · 29 mi
- Rochester · 29 mi
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