Falmouth Beach
Falmouth Beach is a beach in Massachusetts, at a recorded elevation of 0 m. Peaked Hill stands 95 m to the south-southwest, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Salt Pond Frontage, a nature reserve less than a tenth of a mile away. Old King's Highway (Route 6A) passes 16 miles off.
The story
Beach in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States.
Wikidata Q49320670, joined on its GNIS feature id.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 0 m
How to reach it
- 16.3 mi off the Old King's Highway (Route 6A), National
Named places within 25 miles
- Riddle Hill: 1.3 mi
- The Knob: 1.7 mi
- Swifts Hill: 2.0 mi
- Nobska Hill: 2.1 mi
- Mount Sod: 3.9 mi
- Falmouth Town Green: 1.1 mi
- Margaret E. Noonan Park: 1.1 mi
- Shiverick's Pond Pathway: 1.1 mi
- WHOI - Rose Garden: 1.1 mi
- Downtown Library Park: 1.2 mi
- Surf Drive Beach: 0.2 mi
- Quissett Beach: 0.7 mi
- Trunk River Beach: 0.8 mi
- Public Beach Quissett Harbor: 1.4 mi
- Public Beach Buzzards Bay: 1.6 mi
- Katharine Lee Bates: 1.1 mi
- Falmouth Police Memorial: 1.7 mi
- Nobska Lighthouse: 2.2 mi
- Woods Holl: 2.4 mi
- Soldiers Memorial: 6.9 mi
- Falmouth Museums on the Green: 1.1 mi
- Woods Hole Historical Museum: 2.3 mi
- Saconesset Homestead and Museum: 4.6 mi
- Old Schoolhouse Museum and Liberty Pole: 5.9 mi
- Martha's Vineyard Museum: 6.5 mi
- Salt Pond Frontage: 0.0 mi
- Surf Drive Beach Frontage: 0.1 mi
- Surf Drive: 0.1 mi
- Welsh Parcel: 0.1 mi
- Salt Pond Reservation: 0.1 mi
- The Liberté: 1.2 mi
- Falmouth Road Race Finish Line: 1.7 mi
- Falmouth Road Race Starting Line: 2.4 mi
- Flying Horses Carousel: 6.8 mi
- Big Bridge: 9.5 mi
- Falmouth Heights: 1.7 mi
- Nobska Point: 3.9 mi
- Husselton Head: 5.2 mi
- Falmouth Cliffs: 5.7 mi
- Makonikey Head: 6.2 mi
- Spohr Public Gardens: 0.7 mi
- Colonial Gardens: 1.1 mi
- Garden of Our Lady: 2.3 mi
- Mashpee Community Garden: 10.6 mi
- Dexter Rhododendron Garden: 15.6 mi
- Helen Keller: 2.4 mi
- Whale Tail: 2.5 mi
- Rachel Carson: 2.5 mi
- Buddha: 7.3 mi
- Tree of Bike: 8.2 mi
- Nobska Point Light: 2.2 mi
- West Chop Light: 4.4 mi
- Clark's Point Light: 14.6 mi
- truck pull-off: 16.3 mi
- Rest Area SR-25 Welcome Center: 16.6 mi
- Yarmouth Tourist Information Center: 20.3 mi
- Bourne Recreation Area: 14.4 mi
- Herring Run Recreational Area: 16.5 mi
- Crystal Spring: 14.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 21.0 miles of Falmouth Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peaked Hill | SSW 204° | 95 m | 13.9 mi |
| Pine Hill | NNE 16° | 93 m | 12.1 mi |
| Flatrock Hill | NNE 17° | 82 m | 15.5 mi |
| Avery Hill | NNE 15° | 80 m | 13.8 mi |
| Prospect Hill | SSW 207° | 78 m | 13.5 mi |
| Discovery Hill | NNE 33° | 77 m | 15.2 mi |
| Deer Horn Hill | NNE 14° | 71 m | 8.6 mi |
| Whiting Hill | SSW 202° | 68 m | 10.0 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 | 07:06 | 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 | 32 | 33 | 37 | 47 | 56 | 65 | 72 | 72 | 66 | 56 | 46 | 38 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Woods Hole Golf Club, 2 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Falmouth Heights, MA, 2 mi away — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/82313720
Day trips start here
- Marion · 13 mi
- Mattapoisett · 13 mi
- SouthCoast · 13 mi
- Wareham · 16 mi
- Rochester · 17 mi
- Dartmouth · 18 mi
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