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Long Beach

Long Beach from directly overhead

Long Beach is a beach in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 0 m. Becks Hill stands 208 m to the north-northwest, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Long Beach Island, a nature reserve less than a tenth of a mile away. Merritt Parkway passes 4.9 miles off.

What the record says

Elevation
0 m

How to reach it

Coordinates41.07287, -73.40317

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Historic sites
  • War Memorial: 0.8 mi
  • Eye of Odin: 0.9 mi
  • Spc Wilfredo Perez Jr.: 2.2 mi
  • UN Tree of Norwalk: 2.6 mi
  • War Memorial: 3.2 mi
Parks
  • Village Creek Open Space: 0.9 mi
  • Calf Pasture Beach: 0.9 mi
  • Woodward Avenue Park: 1.0 mi
  • Shady Beach: 1.2 mi
  • Springwood Park: 1.3 mi
Peaks
  • Sasqua Hill: 2.3 mi
  • Golden Hill: 2.4 mi
  • Seymour Rock: 2.8 mi
  • Spring Hill: 3.1 mi
  • Compo Hill: 4.0 mi
Gardens
  • Formal Garden: 6.3 mi
  • Westport Community Garden: 6.6 mi
  • Community Garden: 7.5 mi
  • Herb Garden: 7.5 mi
  • Conifer Garden: 8.8 mi
Artworks
  • Dancing Girl: 7.2 mi
  • Samford Sign: 7.4 mi
  • Stamford Cone: 7.5 mi
  • Pollinator Pathway Mural: 11.2 mi
  • The Millenium Sundial: 11.6 mi
Attractions: 20
  • Rowayton Dog Park: 1.9 mi
  • Andrew Shaw Memorial Trust Scout Cabin: 4.2 mi
  • Darien Arts Center: 4.3 mi
  • Earthplace: 5.3 mi
  • Burr Homestead: 9.2 mi
Picnic sites: 19
  • The Meadow: 8.3 mi
  • Picnic Grove: 15.0 mi
  • Upper Education Area: 15.1 mi
  • Lower Education Area: 15.1 mi
  • Pell Hill: 15.7 mi
Waterfalls: 12
  • Farms Falls: 11.6 mi
  • Cascade: 11.9 mi
  • Devil's Glen Falls: 12.1 mi
  • Cascade: 12.2 mi
  • Cascade: 12.2 mi
Lighthouses: 11
Cliffs: 10
Rest areas: 6
  • RT. 15 New Canaan NB Service Plaza: 5.1 mi
  • RT. 15 New Canaan SB Service Plaza: 5.2 mi
  • Long Island Welcome Center: 19.2 mi
  • Danbury Rest Area: 22.6 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 23.3 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • The Silver Spring: 13.6 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 13.1 miles of Long Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Becks HillNNW 330°208 m12.0 mi
Bald HillNNW 338°184 m10.5 mi
Upper Bald HillNNW 340°171 m11.5 mi
Comstock KnollNNW 342°164 m9.7 mi
Powells HillNNE 18°159 m11.9 mi
Flirt HillNNE 17°148 m13.1 mi
Staples HillNNE 26°144 m12.5 mi
Honey HillN 354°143 m11.8 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, 2 miaway — today’s predictions live there.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/359265545

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