Matoaka Beach
Matoaka Beach is a beach in Maryland, at a modelled elevation of 5 m. Fort Hill stands 35 m to the south, 2.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Long Beach, a beach 0.6 miles away. Star-Spangled Banner Byway passes 1.4 miles off. 2 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Fee
- Yes
How to reach it
- 1.4 mi off the Star-Spangled Banner Byway
- 10.4 mi off the Roots and Tides Byway
- 11.8 mi off the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway, National
- 14.6 mi off the Religious Freedom Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Church Point · 20 mi
- Eagle Nesting Site · 21 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- BGE Field: 4.6 mi
- Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum: 5.1 mi
- Gray's Road Dog Park: 5.8 mi
- Battle Creek Cypress Swamp Nature Sanctuary: 6.4 mi
- Battle Creek Cypress Swamp County Sanctuary: 6.5 mi
- Marseille: 8.7 mi
- Greenberg Variations: 8.7 mi
- The Council Ring: 8.8 mi
- A Tribute to the Oyster Tonger, A Chesapeake Waterman: 8.8 mi
- Potomac Rhythm: 8.8 mi
- Gatewood Preserve: 6.1 mi
- Battle Creek Cypress Swamp Sanctuary: 6.3 mi
- Sotterley: 7.1 mi
- Greenwell State Park: 7.5 mi
- Mollys Leg Dredge Spoil: 10.3 mi
- Fisherman's Cabin: 1.9 mi
- Battle Creek Cypress Swamp Nature Center: 6.2 mi
- Sotterley Plantation: 7.3 mi
- Cove Point Lighthouse: 7.9 mi
- Arthur Storer Planetarium;Spaceflight America Museum and Science Center: 8.0 mi
- Corncrib: 3.8 mi
- Lemuel-Wallace House: 3.8 mi
- Drum Point Lighthouse: 9.6 mi
- Solomon’s Island: 10.2 mi
- J.C. Lore & Sons Oyster House: 10.2 mi
- Long Beach: 0.6 mi
- Cove Point Beach: 7.9 mi
- Seahorse Beach: 10.1 mi
- Breezy Point Beach: 10.5 mi
- Drum Point Beach: 10.9 mi
- Calvert Cliffs: 2.1 mi
- Calvert Cliffs: 4.2 mi
- Calvert Cliffs: 5.6 mi
- Nutts Cliffs: 6.0 mi
- Roosevelt Cliffs: 11.3 mi
- Malone's Church: 14.3 mi
- Spocott Windmill: 18.0 mi
- Stanley Institute: 21.0 mi
- Eagle Nest: 21.4 mi
- Fort Hill: 2.4 mi
- Blue Gull Hill: 24.2 mi
- Garden of Remembrance: 19.7 mi
- Cambridge Community Garden: 22.6 mi
- Drum Point Lighthouse: 9.7 mi
- Wilson: 20.1 mi
- Patuxent Park Pavillion: 23.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Matoaka Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Hill | S 178° | 35 m | 2.4 mi |
| Blue Gull Hill | SSE 166° | 22 m | 24.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:10 | 18:43 | 19:18 |
| June solstice | 05:43 | 19:54 | 20:34 |
| September equinox | 06:54 | 18:30 | 19:05 |
| December solstice | 07:20 | 16:07 | 16:49 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Jun, Aug–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 38 | 39 | 46 | 56 | 66 | 76 | 80 | 79 | 72 | 61 | 51 | 42 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Solomons, 11 mi away.
Mean tidal range 1.01 ft at the nearest NOAA station.
NOAA CO-OPS station Long Beach, MD, under a mileaway — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/954029593
Day trips start here
- Prince Frederick · 8 mi
- Solomons · 9 mi
- Leonardtown · 15 mi
- Lexington Park · 15 mi
- Chesapeake Beach · 16 mi
- Hooper's Island · 19 mi
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