Foss Beach
Foss Beach is a beach in New Hampshire, at a recorded elevation of 0 m. Third Hill stands 104 m to the north, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Rye North Beach, a beach 0.4 miles away. Coastal Byway runs past it.
The story
Beach in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States.
Wikidata Q34753895, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 0 m
How to reach it
- On the Coastal Byway
- 6.3 mi off the Independence Byway
- 15.3 mi off the Essex Coastal Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Wildlife Viewing Platform · 17 mi
- Eagle Rock · 26 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Outer Marker Park: 1.0 mi
- Wallis Sands State Park: 1.5 mi
- Maple Haven Park: 3.1 mi
- Community Campus: 3.1 mi
- Lafayette Playground: 4.0 mi
- Peverly Hill: 3.2 mi
- Breakfast Hill: 3.4 mi
- Sagamore Hill: 3.4 mi
- Rocky Ledge: 3.8 mi
- Drake Hill: 4.1 mi
- 1614 Monument: 0.4 mi
- Pulpit Rock Tower: 2.1 mi
- Fishermans Shack: 2.8 mi
- Battery 204: 2.9 mi
- Founder's Monument: 3.0 mi
- Town Museum and Rye Historical Society: 1.6 mi
- Seacoast Science Center: 3.0 mi
- Wood Island Life Saving Station: 4.5 mi
- Rundlet-May House Museum: 4.5 mi
- New Castle, NH Historical Society: 4.6 mi
- Rye Town Forest: 0.9 mi
- Marden Woods: 1.1 mi
- Seavey Acres: 2.4 mi
- Jim Raynes Forest: 2.6 mi
- Urban Forestry Center: 3.0 mi
- Goodwin Garden: 4.7 mi
- Trial Gardens: 4.7 mi
- Liberty Gardens: 4.8 mi
- Victory Gardens: 4.8 mi
- Pocket Garden: 4.8 mi
- Rye North Beach: 0.4 mi
- Pirates Cove Beach: 1.1 mi
- Wallis Sands Beach: 1.5 mi
- Jenness Beach: 1.7 mi
- Sawyers Beach: 2.2 mi
- Bones: 2.9 mi
- Great Blue Heron and Cormorant Sculpture: 4.3 mi
- Chestnut Street Arch: 4.8 mi
- My Mother the Wind: 4.8 mi
- Fisherman’s Luck: 4.8 mi
- Triple Giant Slides: 2.8 mi
- Fuller Gardens: 3.6 mi
- Fort Constitution Historic Site: 4.7 mi
- Portsmouth Harbor Cruises: 5.0 mi
- Al Gauron Fishing & Whale Watching: 8.4 mi
- Sheep's Rock: 11.3 mi
- Dover Bluff: 13.0 mi
- Coffin's Cut: 14.7 mi
- York Cliffs: 15.0 mi
- Bald Head Cliff: 16.9 mi
- Hampton Falls: 9.3 mi
- Great Falls: 10.4 mi
- Lower Falls: 10.4 mi
- Piscassic Falls: 11.6 mi
- Second Falls: 12.3 mi
- Birthday Bay: 2.8 mi
- Fort McClary Picnic Area: 5.5 mi
- Front Pavilion: 7.9 mi
- Scamman Pavilion: 7.9 mi
- 4H Pavilion: 8.0 mi
- Hampton Liquor and Wine Outlet Southbound: 7.8 mi
- Hampton Liquor and Wine Outlet Northbound: 7.8 mi
- Seabrook Rest Area: 11.0 mi
- I 95 SB Salisbury Rest Area: 11.4 mi
- Rest Area I-495 (South Bound): 18.7 mi
- Portsmouth Harbor Light: 4.7 mi
- Marine Safety Detachment: 4.7 mi
- Cape Neddick "Nubble" Lighthouse: 13.3 mi
- Front Range Light: 14.9 mi
- Jailhouse Spring: 10.9 mi
- Lion's Spring: 15.5 mi
- Two Sisters Spring: 17.7 mi
- Rail Spring: 18.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.7 miles of Foss Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Third Hill | N 351° | 104 m | 11.7 mi |
| Stratham Hill | WNW 286° | 88 m | 7.7 mi |
| Jewell Hill | WNW 282° | 81 m | 7.8 mi |
| Great Hill | SW 230° | 74 m | 10.2 mi |
| Raitt Hill | N 350° | 74 m | 10.8 mi |
| Oakland Hill | W 277° | 73 m | 11.4 mi |
| Pevear Hill | WSW 239° | 66 m | 11.7 mi |
| Long Hill | W 281° | 62 m | 7.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:47 | 18:18 | 18:55 |
| June solstice | 05:05 | 19:43 | 20:26 |
| September equinox | 06:31 | 18:05 | 18:42 |
| December solstice | 07:12 | 15:26 | 16:12 |
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 | 24 | 27 | 34 | 45 | 55 | 65 | 70 | 69 | 62 | 50 | 40 | 30 |
| Precip in | 3.6 | 3.6 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.0 | 4.6 | 3.9 | 3.7 | 4.1 | 4.9 | 4.1 | 4.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Greenland, 4 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Jaffrey Point, NH, 4 mi away — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/1107488622
Day trips start here
- Portsmouth · 5 mi
- York · 12 mi
- Amesbury · 14 mi
- Dover · 15 mi
- Newburyport · 15 mi
- Ogunquit · 18 mi
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