Second Beach
Second Beach is a beach in Rhode Island, at a modelled elevation of 0 m. Yorker Hill stands 98 m to the west, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Surfer's End, a beach 0.5 miles away. Paradise Ave and Other Roads runs past it.
The story
Beach in Rhode Island, United States.
Wikidata Q49324681, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
How to reach it
- On the Paradise Ave and Other Roads
- 2.6 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
- 11.3 mi off the Route 114 and High Street
- 14.8 mi off the Route 102 (Ten Rod Road)
Overlooks nearby
- Gaspee Point Overlook · 19 mi
- Prospect Terrace Viewpoint · 25 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Whitehall Museum House: 2.0 mi
- The Breakers: 2.4 mi
- Chepstow: 2.6 mi
- Newport Art Museum: 2.6 mi
- Audrain Auto Museum: 2.7 mi
- Purgatory Chasm: 0.6 mi
- Paradise Valley Park: 1.1 mi
- Dunlap-Wheeler Park: 1.5 mi
- Braga Park: 2.1 mi
- Green End Fort: 2.2 mi
- Archibald Gracie Lawence memorial stone: 0.6 mi
- Oliver Perry Monument: 3.0 mi
- Miantonomi Memorial Park Tower: 3.2 mi
- Anchor Park: 4.0 mi
- 9/11 Memorial: 4.0 mi
- Barker Hill: 2.0 mi
- Bliss Hill: 2.7 mi
- Miantonomi Hill: 3.2 mi
- Beacon Hill: 3.4 mi
- Slate Hill: 3.7 mi
- Surfer's End: 0.5 mi
- Third Beach: 0.6 mi
- Atlantic Beach: 1.4 mi
- Easton's Beach: 1.8 mi
- Peckham Beach: 2.5 mi
- Matthew Perry Monument: 2.7 mi
- Channing Truro Statue: 2.7 mi
- Rochambeau Statue and Monument: 3.4 mi
- Statue of Roger Williams: 11.2 mi
- Grafitti Tunnel: 12.1 mi
- Newport Cliff Walk – Forty Steps: 2.2 mi
- International Tennis Hall of Fame: 2.7 mi
- Newport Mansions Preservation Society: 2.7 mi
- Old Colony House: 2.9 mi
- Breakers Stable & Carriage House: 3.0 mi
- John C. Whitehead Preserve: 4.2 mi
- Wilbour Woods: 4.3 mi
- High Hill Point: 4.7 mi
- Fogland Marsh Preserve: 4.8 mi
- Donavan Marsh: 4.9 mi
- Burchard Triangle: 3.9 mi
- The Blue Garden: 4.4 mi
- Ecological Oasis: 4.6 mi
- Heber W. Youngken Medicinal Garden: 14.0 mi
- Florence Nightingale Memorial Garden: 14.1 mi
- The Bluff: 0.7 mi
- Marys Seat: 2.1 mi
- Rams Head: 5.8 mi
- Lion Head: 7.2 mi
- Ferry Cliff: 11.1 mi
- Big Beach: 18.4 mi
- Little Beach: 18.6 mi
- Little Nini Pavillion: 22.6 mi
- Picnic Pavilion: 22.7 mi
- Rest Area I-195 (East Bound): 19.2 mi
- Rest Area I-195 (West Bound): 19.4 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 21.8 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (South Bound): 21.9 mi
- Beavertail Light: 7.8 mi
- 1755 Lighthouse Foundation: 7.8 mi
- Clark's Point Light: 19.8 mi
- Plum Point Spring: 8.9 mi
- Elizabeth Spring: 15.1 mi
- Factory Pond: 18.9 mi
- East Greenwich Falls: 15.5 mi
- Payne's Pond Falls: 15.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.3 miles of Second Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yorker Hill | W 280° | 98 m | 14.8 mi |
| Mount Pleasant | W 275° | 97 m | 15.3 mi |
| Pocasset Hill | NNE 16° | 95 m | 11.9 mi |
| Slate Hill | N 353° | 87 m | 3.7 mi |
| Cook Hill | NNE 17° | 85 m | 12.6 mi |
| Tefft Hill | W 264° | 78 m | 14.6 mi |
| Townsend Hill | NNE 16° | 77 m | 13.4 mi |
| Congdon Hill | WNW 283° | 75 m | 12.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:49 | 18:21 | 18:57 |
| June solstice | 05:12 | 19:41 | 20:23 |
| September equinox | 06:33 | 18:08 | 18:44 |
| December solstice | 07:09 | 15:34 | 16:19 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 31 | 32 | 38 | 47 | 57 | 66 | 72 | 71 | 65 | 55 | 45 | 37 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.8 | 4.6 | 3.8 | 3.0 | 3.4 | 2.9 | 3.4 | 3.4 | 4.1 | 3.8 | 3.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Newport State AP, 3 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Sachuest, Flint Point, RI, 1 mi away — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/147562096
Day trips start here
- Middletown · 3 mi
- Newport · 3 mi
- Little Compton · 5 mi
- Brenton Point State Park · 6 mi
- Jamestown · 6 mi
- Newport County · 6 mi
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