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Crescent Beach

Crescent Beach from directly overhead

Crescent Beach is a beach in New York, at a recorded elevation of 0 m. Round Hill stands 172 m to the northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Crescent Beach Town Park, a park 0.2 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 15 miles off.

What the record says

Elevation
0 m

How to reach it

Coordinates40.90732, -73.40012

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Crescent Beach Town Park: 0.2 mi
  • Bay Hills Beach: 0.2 mi
  • Fleets Cove Beach Park: 0.8 mi
  • Huntington Beach Community Association: 1.1 mi
  • Centerport Park: 1.2 mi
Beaches
Nature reserves
Museums
Gardens
  • Rose Garden: 1.7 mi
  • Rose Garden: 3.7 mi
  • Walled Garden: 3.8 mi
  • Crucifix Garden: 3.8 mi
  • Organic Demonstration Site #1: 4.9 mi
Artworks
Historic sites
Peaks
  • Caumsett State Historic Park Preserve Peak: 4.4 mi
  • Sagamore Hill: 5.5 mi
  • Signal Hill: 6.5 mi
  • Jayne's Hill: 6.5 mi
  • West Hills: 6.5 mi
Attractions: 33
Picnic sites: 22
  • Lower Education Area: 6.2 mi
  • Upper Education Area: 6.2 mi
  • Picnic Area C: 7.9 mi
  • Picnic Area A & B: 8.0 mi
  • Wolf 5: 10.4 mi
Lighthouses: 11
Cliffs: 8
Waterfalls: 7
  • Farms Falls: 18.8 mi
  • The Falls: 23.0 mi
  • Cascade: 23.2 mi
  • Devil's Glen Falls: 23.3 mi
  • Cascade: 23.5 mi
Rest areas: 3
  • Long Island Welcome Center: 8.4 mi
  • RT. 15 New Canaan NB Service Plaza: 15.3 mi
  • RT. 15 New Canaan SB Service Plaza: 15.3 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • The Silver Spring: 24.6 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 21.4 miles of Crescent Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Round HillNW 314°172 m19.7 mi
Comstock KnollN 351°164 m20.9 mi
Huckleberry HillsNNW 349°141 m20.0 mi
Canoe HillNNW 347°140 m18.3 mi
Camfield HillN 6°123 m21.4 mi
Jayne's HillSSW 192°122 m6.5 mi
Ferris HillNNW 347°120 m18.8 mi
Pine HillNNW 348°120 m19.3 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5818:3019:06
June solstice05:2319:4820:30
September equinox06:4218:1618:53
December solstice07:1615:4516:29

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 5080 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F313339506069757367564637
Precip in3.73.14.24.13.94.33.84.34.74.33.54.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Centerport, 2 mi away.

Mean tidal range 7.03 ft at the nearest NOAA station.

NOAA CO-OPS station Lloyd Harbor, Huntington Bay, NY, 2 miaway — today’s predictions live there.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/357555696

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