Rowayton Community Beach

Rowayton Community 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 Kulze Nature Preserve, a nature reserve 0.3 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 4.3 miles off.
The story
Beach in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States.
Wikidata Q31811113, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 0 m
How to reach it
- 4.3 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
- 16.6 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 24.8 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Bayley Beach Park: 0.4 mi
- Pinkney Park: 0.5 mi
- Witch Lane Park: 0.6 mi
- Tokeneke Park: 0.8 mi
- Village Creek Open Space: 1.7 mi
- Connecticut Graphis Arts Center and Museum: 2.8 mi
- SONO Switch Tower Museum: 2.9 mi
- Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum: 3.5 mi
- Stepping Stones Museum for Children: 3.6 mi
- Norwalk Art Space: 3.6 mi
- Dancing Girl: 4.9 mi
- Samford Sign: 5.1 mi
- Stamford Cone: 5.2 mi
- Pollinator Pathway Mural: 8.9 mi
- The Millenium Sundial: 9.3 mi
- Kulze Nature Preserve: 0.3 mi
- Hart Nature Preserve: 0.3 mi
- Sammis Street Open Space: 0.4 mi
- Biersdorf, Inc. Open Space: 1.3 mi
- Hoyts Island: 1.6 mi
- Weeburn Beach: 0.3 mi
- Bayley Beach: 0.4 mi
- Harbor View Beach: 2.3 mi
- Long Beach: 2.3 mi
- Commodore Beach: 2.5 mi
- Golden Hill: 2.9 mi
- Christie Hill: 3.5 mi
- Spring Hill: 3.7 mi
- Sasqua Hill: 4.0 mi
- Middle Clapboard Hill: 4.5 mi
- War Memorial: 2.9 mi
- Eye of Odin: 3.1 mi
- Spc Wilfredo Perez Jr.: 3.1 mi
- UN Tree of Norwalk: 3.5 mi
- 9/11 Memorial: 4.4 mi
- Conifer Garden: 7.3 mi
- Formal Garden: 7.3 mi
- Wildflower garden: 7.3 mi
- Cottage Garden: 7.4 mi
- Fern Allee: 7.4 mi
- Rowayton Dog Park: 0.5 mi
- Darien Arts Center: 2.0 mi
- Andrew Shaw Memorial Trust Scout Cabin: 2.1 mi
- Earthplace: 6.8 mi
- Burr Homestead: 11.5 mi
- Reserved Picnic Site: 13.7 mi
- Upper Education Area: 13.7 mi
- Lower Education Area: 13.8 mi
- Pell Hill: 15.1 mi
- Bergfield Picnic Site: 15.4 mi
- Peck Ledge Light: 4.1 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 6.1 mi
- Eatons Neck Light: 8.0 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 11.3 mi
- Tongue Point Light: 15.7 mi
- Caumsett State Historic Park Bluffs: 8.6 mi
- Northwest Bluff: 9.9 mi
- Duck Island Bluff: 10.1 mi
- Cooper Bluff: 11.9 mi
- Castle Rock: 13.5 mi
- Farms Falls: 9.8 mi
- Sheep Falls: 12.7 mi
- Devil's Glen Falls: 13.4 mi
- Saugatuck Falls: 17.1 mi
- Poverty Hollow Falls: 18.2 mi
- RT. 15 New Canaan NB Service Plaza: 4.3 mi
- RT. 15 New Canaan SB Service Plaza: 4.3 mi
- Long Island Welcome Center: 19.2 mi
- Danbury Rest Area: 22.8 mi
- Cuties Island: 3.9 mi
- Pleasure Beach: 16.0 mi
- The Silver Spring: 13.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.7 miles of Rowayton Community Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Becks Hill | NNW 341° | 208 m | 11.7 mi |
| Nod HIll | N 358° | 197 m | 13.7 mi |
| Bald Hill | N 351° | 184 m | 10.6 mi |
| Upper Bald Hill | N 351° | 171 m | 11.6 mi |
| Comstock Knoll | N 355° | 164 m | 9.9 mi |
| Powells Hill | NNE 26° | 159 m | 13.3 mi |
| Honey Hill | N 5° | 143 m | 12.4 mi |
| Huckleberry Hills | N 350° | 141 m | 9.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:30 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:22 | 19:49 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:17 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 15:45 | 16:29 |
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 | 30 | 32 | 40 | 51 | 61 | 69 | 75 | 73 | 66 | 55 | 44 | 35 |
| Precip in | 4.3 | 3.1 | 4.7 | 4.4 | 4.1 | 4.9 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 5.2 | 4.6 | 4.2 | 4.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Stamford 5 N, 7 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Rowayton, Fivemile River, CT, under a mile away — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/359286806
Day trips start here
- Stamford · 6 mi
- Bayville · 12 mi
- Port Chester · 12 mi
- Rye Brook · 13 mi
- Oyster Bay · 14 mi
- Purchase · 14 mi
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