Short Beach
Short Beach is a beach in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 1 m. Barn Hill stands 200 m to the north-northwest, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Short Beach Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 5.5 miles off.
How to reach it
- 5.5 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Grumman ave/ Merritt pkwy bridge · 15 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Connecticut Air & Space Center: 0.8 mi
- Catharine B Mitchell Museum: 2.2 mi
- National Helicopter Museum Inc: 2.6 mi
- Barnum Museum: 4.2 mi
- Housatonic Museum of Art: 4.3 mi
- Short Beach Park: 0.1 mi
- George Force Park: 1.7 mi
- Low Park: 1.7 mi
- Bond's Dock: 1.9 mi
- Shakespeare Park: 1.9 mi
- Academy Hill: 1.2 mi
- Success Hill: 3.3 mi
- Second Hill: 4.7 mi
- Knobb Hill: 4.9 mi
- Meetinghouse Hill: 5.3 mi
- Lordship Beach: 0.9 mi
- Long Beach: 2.0 mi
- Walnut Beach: 3.0 mi
- Pleasure Beach: 3.1 mi
- Silver Sands: 3.5 mi
- Stratford Point Reserve: 0.5 mi
- Charles E. Wheeler Wildlife Management Area: 1.7 mi
- Beaver Brook Trails: 4.0 mi
- Wooster Park: 4.1 mi
- Mondo Ponds Nature Preserve: 4.2 mi
- Liberty Rock: 3.2 mi
- Perry Memorial Archway: 4.2 mi
- White Oak: 4.5 mi
- Ye Olde King's Highway: 4.5 mi
- Old Mill Green: 4.5 mi
- Urban Roots Bridgeport: 5.1 mi
- Rose/Wedding garden: 5.2 mi
- Eisenhower Community Garden: 6.6 mi
- Drew Park Community Gardens: 7.0 mi
- Fairfield Museum Pollinator Garden: 7.4 mi
- Miniature Windmill: 5.2 mi
- Miniature Lighthouse: 5.3 mi
- Heron: 7.0 mi
- Mother Mary: 7.6 mi
- An American Dream: 13.4 mi
- Farmill River Falls: 6.9 mi
- Indian Well Falls: 12.4 mi
- Devil's Glen Falls: 13.6 mi
- Wepawaug Falls: 14.7 mi
- Wintergreen Falls: 14.9 mi
- Burr Homestead: 7.5 mi
- PEZ Visitor Center: 9.2 mi
- Dynamite Storage Tunnel: 10.7 mi
- Earthplace: 14.1 mi
- Nelli Green's Bridge: 15.0 mi
- Gulf Beach Picnic Tables: 4.8 mi
- Picnic Grove: 5.1 mi
- Cedar Grove: 12.5 mi
- The Rotary Pavilion: 12.6 mi
- Pond View: 12.6 mi
- Forbes Bluff: 13.2 mi
- Duck Island Bluff: 21.4 mi
- Chimney Corner: 21.5 mi
- Caumsett State Historic Park Bluffs: 24.0 mi
- Old Raven Rocks: 24.5 mi
- Keeper's Dwelling: 0.6 mi
- Stratford Point Light: 0.6 mi
- Tongue Point Light: 3.6 mi
- Peck Ledge Light: 14.7 mi
- Eatons Neck Light: 20.6 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 8.9 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 8.9 mi
- RT. 15 New Canaan NB Service Plaza: 19.5 mi
- RT. 15 New Canaan SB Service Plaza: 19.5 mi
- Pleasure Beach: 3.0 mi
- Cuties Island: 22.6 mi
- Cold Spring: 15.5 mi
- The Silver Spring: 21.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.3 miles of Short Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barn Hill | NNW 343° | 200 m | 13.3 mi |
| Moose Hill | NNW 337° | 198 m | 12.9 mi |
| Israel Hill | NNW 342° | 192 m | 12.2 mi |
| Bugg Hill | NNW 333° | 189 m | 12.7 mi |
| Upper White Hills | N 349° | 188 m | 13.3 mi |
| Tashua Hill | NW 314° | 179 m | 10.1 mi |
| Walnut Tree Hill | NNW 343° | 171 m | 10.6 mi |
| Hirams Hill | NW 320° | 167 m | 12.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:28 | 19:05 |
| June solstice | 05:21 | 19:48 | 20:29 |
| September equinox | 06:41 | 18:15 | 18:52 |
| December solstice | 07:15 | 15:43 | 16:27 |
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 | 31 | 33 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 70 | 76 | 75 | 68 | 56 | 46 | 37 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 3.1 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 3.6 | 3.8 | 3.3 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 3.1 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Igor I Sikorsky MEM AP, under a mile away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Sniffens Point, CT, 2 mi away — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/307668126
Day trips start here
- Stamford · 23 mi
- Bayville · 29 mi
- Oyster Bay · 30 mi
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