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Harbor View Beach

Harbor View Beach from directly overhead

Harbor View Beach is a beach in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 2 m. Becks Hill stands 208 m to the north-northwest, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Yost Street Open Space, a nature reserve 0.3 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 4.3 miles off.

The story

beach in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States

Wikidata Q31810943, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

What the record says

Elevation
2 m

How to reach it

Coordinates41.08121, -73.40845

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
  • Yost Street Open Space: 0.3 mi
  • Long Beach Island: 0.6 mi
  • Meadow Street Park: 0.7 mi
  • Hoyts Island: 0.8 mi
  • San Vincenzo Park: 0.9 mi
Parks
  • Woodward Avenue Park: 0.4 mi
  • Village Creek Open Space: 0.6 mi
  • Calf Pasture Beach: 0.7 mi
  • Springwood Park: 0.8 mi
  • Charles Creek Park: 0.9 mi
Historic sites
  • War Memorial: 0.6 mi
  • Eye of Odin: 0.8 mi
  • Spc Wilfredo Perez Jr.: 1.5 mi
  • UN Tree of Norwalk: 1.9 mi
  • War Memorial: 2.6 mi
Peaks
  • Golden Hill: 1.7 mi
  • Sasqua Hill: 1.9 mi
  • Spring Hill: 2.4 mi
  • Seymour Rock: 2.7 mi
  • Compo Hill: 3.8 mi
Gardens
  • Formal Garden: 5.7 mi
  • Westport Community Garden: 6.4 mi
  • Community Garden: 6.9 mi
  • Herb Garden: 6.9 mi
  • Wildflower garden: 8.3 mi
Artworks
  • Dancing Girl: 7.1 mi
  • Samford Sign: 7.3 mi
  • Stamford Cone: 7.4 mi
  • Pollinator Pathway Mural: 11.1 mi
  • The Millenium Sundial: 11.5 mi
Attractions: 20
  • Rowayton Dog Park: 1.9 mi
  • Andrew Shaw Memorial Trust Scout Cabin: 3.9 mi
  • Darien Arts Center: 4.1 mi
  • Earthplace: 4.8 mi
  • Burr Homestead: 9.2 mi
Picnic sites: 19
  • The Meadow: 7.8 mi
  • Picnic Grove: 14.8 mi
  • Pell Hill: 15.1 mi
  • Bergfield Picnic Site: 15.4 mi
  • Upper Education Area: 15.5 mi
Waterfalls: 13
  • Farms Falls: 11.2 mi
  • Cascade: 11.2 mi
  • Devil's Glen Falls: 11.6 mi
  • Sheep Falls: 11.6 mi
  • Cascade: 11.6 mi
Lighthouses: 11
Cliffs: 10
Rest areas: 6
  • RT. 15 New Canaan NB Service Plaza: 4.6 mi
  • RT. 15 New Canaan SB Service Plaza: 4.6 mi
  • Long Island Welcome Center: 19.8 mi
  • Danbury Rest Area: 22.0 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 23.2 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • The Silver Spring: 13.0 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 12.6 miles of Harbor View Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Becks HillNNW 330°208 m11.3 mi
Nod HIllNNW 349°197 m12.6 mi
Gilbert HillN 357°186 m12.6 mi
Bald HillNNW 339°184 m9.9 mi
Upper Bald HillNNW 340°171 m10.9 mi
Comstock KnollNNW 342°164 m9.1 mi
Powells HillNNE 20°159 m11.4 mi
Staples HillNNE 28°144 m12.2 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5818:3019:06
June solstice05:2219:4920:30
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 °F303240516169757366554435
Precip in4.33.14.74.44.14.93.83.85.24.64.24.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Stamford 5 N, 8 mi away.

Mean tidal range 7.07 ft at the nearest NOAA station.

NOAA CO-OPS station South Norwalk, CT, 1 miaway — today’s predictions live there.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/359286012

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