Rockaway Beach
Rockaway Beach is a beach in New York, at a modelled elevation of 1 m. Todt Hill stands 125 m to the west, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Kohlridir Square, a park 0.4 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 17 miles off. 41 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
Beach in Queens, New York, United States.
Wikidata Q34711903, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
How to reach it
- 17.0 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 20.5 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Kohlridir Square: 0.4 mi
- Beach 59th Street Playground: 0.5 mi
- Beach Channel Playground: 0.6 mi
- Almeda Playground: 0.6 mi
- Benjamin Cardozo Playground: 0.7 mi
- Arverne East Nature Preserve: 0.8 mi
- Vernam Barbadoes Peninsula: 0.8 mi
- Rockaway Beach - Arverne Shorebird Preserve: 0.9 mi
- Dubos Point Wildlife Sanctuary: 1.1 mi
- Norton Basin Natural Resource Area: 1.8 mi
- Sun and Surf Beach Club: 2.4 mi
- Atlantic Beach: 3.5 mi
- Jacob Riis Park Beach 1: 3.8 mi
- Jacob Riis Park Beach 2: 3.9 mi
- Jacob Riis Park Beach 3: 4.0 mi
- Rock Hall: 3.6 mi
- Historic Aircraft Restoration Project - Hangar B: 4.6 mi
- Ryan Visitor Center: 5.3 mi
- Curly's Cowboy Center: 6.0 mi
- Long Beach Historical Museum: 6.6 mi
- Beach Grass Nursery: 4.6 mi
- The Floyd Bennett Gardens: 5.1 mi
- The Garden of Resilience: 5.7 mi
- 142nd Place & St. Block Association: 6.3 mi
- Mother Carter Garden: 6.4 mi
- JFK: 4.7 mi
- Wyckoff House Museum: 7.7 mi
- Historic Wyckoff-Bennett-Mont Residence: 8.3 mi
- Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead: 8.3 mi
- Forest Park Carousel: 8.6 mi
- Flight 587 Memorial: 2.2 mi
- Town of Hempsted Sanitary District No. 1 9-11 Memorial: 4.2 mi
- TWA Hotel Tickerboard: 4.3 mi
- LCFD Memorial: 4.3 mi
- Battery Fergusson: 4.8 mi
- Voice of Tomorrow: 4.0 mi
- The Young Rembrandt: 4.1 mi
- History of Time: 4.1 mi
- Rockaway Artists Alliance: 5.0 mi
- Horse: 5.5 mi
- Willink Hill: 10.3 mi
- Breeze Hill: 10.3 mi
- Lookout Hill: 10.5 mi
- Quaker Hill: 10.6 mi
- Sullivan Hill: 10.6 mi
- Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge: 2.6 mi
- Picnic Area B: 5.1 mi
- Picnic Area A: 5.1 mi
- Picnic Area G: 5.1 mi
- Picnic Area F: 5.1 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 13.8 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 13.8 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 15.7 mi
- North Tower: 16.4 mi
- Twin Lights State Historic Site: 16.4 mi
- Binnen Falls: 10.4 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 10.6 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 10.6 mi
- The Loch: 16.8 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 20.6 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 24.6 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 24.7 mi
- Palisades: 17.0 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 18.7 mi
- Barber: 24.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Rockaway Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Todt Hill | W 274° | 125 m | 16.8 mi |
| Crawford Hill | WSW 237° | 120 m | 24.5 mi |
| Harbor Hill | NNE 29° | 106 m | 16.9 mi |
| Telegraph Hill | WSW 236° | 106 m | 23.8 mi |
| West Hills | NE 50° | 106 m | 24.9 mi |
| Bronx High Point | NNW 345° | 85 m | 22.4 mi |
| Mannetto Hills | NE 50° | 85 m | 23.1 mi |
| Manhattan High Point | NNW 338° | 81 m | 19.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:31 | 19:07 |
| June solstice | 05:25 | 19:49 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:18 | 18:54 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 15:48 | 16:32 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 33 | 35 | 41 | 51 | 61 | 70 | 76 | 75 | 68 | 57 | 47 | 38 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.8 | 3.9 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.1 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — JFK Intl AP, 4 mi away.
Mean tidal range 5.44 ft at the nearest NOAA station.
NOAA CO-OPS station Beach Channel (bridge), NY, 1 mi away — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/88717124
Day trips start here
- Queens/Jamaica · 8 mi
- Brooklyn/Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush · 9 mi
- Queens/Forest Park · 9 mi
- Queens · 10 mi
- Rockville Centre · 10 mi
- Brooklyn/Downtown · 12 mi
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