Duck Harbor Beach
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Duck Harbor Beach is a beach in Massachusetts, at a recorded elevation of 6 m. Deer Park Hill stands 165 m to the south, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Griffin Island, a peak 0.7 miles away. Old King's Highway (Route 6A) passes 12 miles off. 44 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
Beach in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States.
Wikidata Q49320556, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 6 m
How to reach it
- 11.8 mi off the Old King's Highway (Route 6A), National
Named places within 25 miles
- Cannon Hill Park: 2.7 mi
- Snows Field: 4.1 mi
- Mill Field: 6.1 mi
- Pilgrim Pond Park: 6.2 mi
- Three Sisters of Nauset: 8.4 mi
- Ryder Beach: 1.4 mi
- Powers Landing: 1.7 mi
- Mayo Beach: 2.0 mi
- Fisher Beach: 2.8 mi
- Long Pond Beach: 3.3 mi
- Griffin Island: 0.7 mi
- Cannon Hill: 2.6 mi
- Little Beach Hill: 2.9 mi
- Gross Hill: 3.8 mi
- Tom Hill: 3.8 mi
- The Gut: 1.0 mi
- Pole Dyke Swamp: 1.5 mi
- Lewis Farm Cr: 1.7 mi
- Mayo Creek: 2.1 mi
- Hogsback Cr: 2.5 mi
- Indian Grave Stone: 0.8 mi
- Steamer Portland: 6.7 mi
- Cape Cod (Highland) Light original location plaque: 6.7 mi
- Pilgrim's First Landing Memorial: 8.9 mi
- Eastham Train Depot and Water Tower: 9.2 mi
- Atwood-Higgins House: 1.1 mi
- Wellfleet Historical Society Museum: 2.4 mi
- Highland House Museum: 6.6 mi
- Eastham 1869 Schoolhouse Museum: 9.0 mi
- Atlantic White Shark Conservancy: 9.1 mi
- Chime: 6.0 mi
- They Also Faced the Sea: 9.1 mi
- Homage to the Fishermen (1989): 9.3 mi
- Bubbles the Humpback: 9.3 mi
- ART: 9.3 mi
- Dolphin Fleet Whale Watch: 9.2 mi
- Dolphin Fleet · Whale Watch: 9.3 mi
- Penniman House: 10.3 mi
- Coast Guard Motor Lifeboat CG 36500: 10.5 mi
- Jonathan Young Windmill: 11.4 mi
- Indian Neck: 3.5 mi
- Salten Point: 20.0 mi
- Top of Eroding Coastal Bank (Spring 2025): 20.7 mi
- Fullers Point: 21.7 mi
- Lookout Point: 24.8 mi
- Butterfly & Hummingbird Garden: 5.9 mi
- Suzanne's Garden: 9.4 mi
- PAAM Sculpture Garden: 9.4 mi
- Shirley Cross Wildflower Garden: 24.4 mi
- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Garden: 24.4 mi
- Highland/Cape Cod Light: 6.7 mi
- Nauset Light: 8.6 mi
- U.S. Coast Guard Station: 19.9 mi
- Chatham Light: 19.9 mi
- Picnick Area: 12.7 mi
- Hardings Beach Picnic Area: 19.2 mi
- truck pull-off: 14.3 mi
- Yarmouth Tourist Information Center: 20.8 mi
- Long Point: 7.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Duck Harbor Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deer Park Hill | S 171° | 165 m | 13.0 mi |
| Signal Hill | SSW 201° | 60 m | 15.5 mi |
| Clay Hill | SW 219° | 58 m | 23.0 mi |
| Indian Hill | W 260° | 49 m | 23.9 mi |
| Black Ball Hill | SSW 202° | 45 m | 15.9 mi |
| The Highlands | N 7° | 41 m | 6.7 mi |
| Mill Hill | SSE 161° | 41 m | 12.2 mi |
| Green Hill | NNE 20° | 38 m | 5.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:45 | 18:16 | 18:53 |
| June solstice | 05:06 | 19:38 | 20:20 |
| September equinox | 06:28 | 18:03 | 18:39 |
| December solstice | 07:06 | 15:28 | 16:13 |
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 | 38 | 46 | 55 | 64 | 71 | 71 | 64 | 54 | 45 | 37 |
| Precip in | 3.8 | 3.6 | 4.4 | 4.0 | 3.3 | 2.9 | 2.8 | 3.0 | 3.6 | 4.2 | 4.5 | 5.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Chatham Muni AP, 18 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Wellfleet, MA, 2 mi away — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358269127
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