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Ocean Isle Beach

Ocean Isle Beach from directly overhead

Ocean Isle Beach is a beach in North Carolina, at a recorded elevation of 1 m. Sand Hill stands 13 m to the north-northwest, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Town Center Park, a park 0.2 miles away. Green Swamp Byway passes 13 miles off. 128 named places lie within 25 miles, 2 of them named summits.

What the record says

Elevation
1 m

How to reach it

Coordinates33.88628, -78.43723

128 named places within 25 miles

Parks: 57
  • Town Center Park: 0.2 mi
  • Sunset Beach Park: 4.2 mi
  • Shallotte Township Park: 5.6 mi
  • Shallotte Township District Park: 5.8 mi
  • Sailfish Park: 6.1 mi
Beaches: 25
Nature reserves: 15
Historic sites: 9
  • Buoy 1: 23.2 mi
  • Buoy 2: 23.2 mi
  • Battery Shipp: 23.5 mi
  • Battery Bagley: 23.7 mi
  • Battery Swift: 23.8 mi
Attractions: 6
  • The Swamp Patk Zip Line and ATV Center: 4.1 mi
  • T.I.G.E.R.S. Presevation Station: 18.6 mi
  • Extreme Laser Tag Center: 21.7 mi
  • The Carolina Opry: 22.9 mi
  • Pirates Voyage: 22.9 mi
Museums: 5
Gardens: 4
  • Fly-Trap Farm: 9.0 mi
  • Hughes & Hughes Nursery: 11.1 mi
  • Williams Plantworks LLC: 17.3 mi
  • Caswell Avenue Community Garden: 23.9 mi
Cliffs: 3
Peaks: 2
  • Sand Hill: 15.5 mi
  • Myrtle Head: 18.0 mi
Artworks: 1
  • OIB Sign: 0.4 mi
Lighthouses: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Ocean Isle Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Sand HillNNW 341°13 m15.5 mi
Myrtle HeadN 351°13 m18.0 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1818:5319:26
June solstice06:0419:5220:29
September equinox07:0318:3919:12
December solstice07:1616:3117:09

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Aug–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F464855637077807975655549
Precip in3.83.64.23.53.84.55.26.99.74.23.63.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Shallotte AG, 4 mi away.

Mean tidal range 4.26 ft at the nearest NOAA station.

NOAA CO-OPS station Bowen Point, Shallotte Inlet, NC, 4 miaway — today’s predictions live there.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element node/357798862

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