Rockaway Beach
Rockaway Beach is a beach in New York, at a recorded elevation of 1 m. Todt Hill stands 125 m to the west, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Gwirtzman Triangle, a park 0.7 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, matched on coordinates and name (16 m apart).
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1 m
How to reach it
- 17.5 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 20.3 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Gwirtzman Triangle: 0.7 mi
- Patricia A Brackley Park: 0.7 mi
- Beach Channel Park: 0.9 mi
- Flight 587 Memorial Park: 0.9 mi
- Tribute Park: 1.0 mi
- Jacob Riis Park Beach 1: 0.7 mi
- Jacob Riis Park Beach 2: 0.8 mi
- Jacob Riis Park Beach 3: 1.0 mi
- Jacob Riis Park Beach 4: 1.1 mi
- Jacob Riis Park Beach 5: 1.2 mi
- Flight 587 Memorial: 0.9 mi
- Battery Fergusson: 1.7 mi
- Battery Construction 220: 2.0 mi
- Nike Silo: 2.0 mi
- Battery Harris Magazine 2: 2.4 mi
- Rockaway Artists Alliance: 1.9 mi
- Horse: 3.5 mi
- Fisherman: 4.2 mi
- Postcards From Sheepshead Bay: 5.5 mi
- Voice of Tomorrow: 6.1 mi
- Beach Grass Nursery: 1.9 mi
- The Floyd Bennett Gardens: 2.4 mi
- KCC Urban Farm: 4.3 mi
- Dana Borell Garden: 4.9 mi
- Father Kehoe Triangle: 5.6 mi
- Historic Aircraft Restoration Project - Hangar B: 2.3 mi
- Ryan Visitor Center: 2.6 mi
- Rock Hall: 6.7 mi
- Brooklyn Seltzer Museum: 7.4 mi
- Curly's Cowboy Center: 7.7 mi
- Vernam Barbadoes Peninsula: 2.9 mi
- Turtle Reintroduction Site: 3.2 mi
- Broad Channel Wetlands: 3.2 mi
- Four Sparrow Marsh: 3.5 mi
- Rookery: 3.6 mi
- Historic Wyckoff-Bennett-Mont Residence: 5.9 mi
- Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead: 5.9 mi
- Wyckoff House Museum: 6.2 mi
- Sharks: 6.5 mi
- Sea Cliffs: 6.5 mi
- Breeze Hill: 8.5 mi
- Willink Hill: 8.6 mi
- Lookout Hill: 8.7 mi
- Quaker Hill: 8.8 mi
- Sullivan Hill: 8.9 mi
- Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge: 3.4 mi
- Picnic Area B: 7.8 mi
- Picnic Area A: 7.8 mi
- Picnic Area G: 7.8 mi
- Picnic Area F: 7.8 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 11.0 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 11.0 mi
- North Tower: 14.0 mi
- Twin Lights State Historic Site: 14.0 mi
- South Tower: 14.0 mi
- Binnen Falls: 8.7 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 8.9 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 8.9 mi
- The Loch: 16.4 mi
- The Falls: 21.9 mi
- Palisades: 15.6 mi
- Palisades: 16.3 mi
- Palisades: 18.0 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 18.6 mi
- Palisades: 22.6 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 19.8 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 21.6 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 21.7 mi
- Barber: 21.5 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 278° | 125 m | 14.0 mi |
| Crawford Hill | SW 235° | 120 m | 21.5 mi |
| Harbor Hill | NE 35° | 106 m | 19.3 mi |
| Telegraph Hill | SW 234° | 106 m | 20.8 mi |
| Bronx High Point | N 353° | 85 m | 22.7 mi |
| Beacon Hill | SW 236° | 82 m | 23.8 mi |
| Manhattan High Point | NNW 347° | 81 m | 20.0 mi |
| Queens High Point | NNE 28° | 79.2 m | 14.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:32 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:26 | 19:49 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:18 | 18:54 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 15:49 | 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, 7 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Barren Island, Rockaway Inlet, NY, 2 miaway — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/357582584
Day trips start here
- Brooklyn/Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush · 8 mi
- Queens/Forest Park · 9 mi
- Queens/Jamaica · 9 mi
- Queens · 10 mi
- Brooklyn/Downtown · 11 mi
- Brooklyn/Williamsburg · 11 mi
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