Silver Sands Beach
Silver Sands Beach is a beach in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 4 m. High Rock stands 216 m to the north-northwest, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is West Silver Sands Beach, a beach 0.4 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 11 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 4 m
How to reach it
- 11.1 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
- 26.5 mi off the North Fork Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Bluff Overlook · 27 mi
- Grumman ave/ Merritt pkwy bridge · 28 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- West Silver Sands Beach: 0.4 mi
- Momauguin Beach: 0.5 mi
- Victoria Beach: 0.6 mi
- Shell Beach: 1.1 mi
- Short Beach: 1.3 mi
- East Haven Town Beach: 0.5 mi
- Jerry Juliano Park: 1.1 mi
- Lighthouse Point Park: 1.3 mi
- Morris Triangle: 1.3 mi
- Pardee Seawall Park: 1.6 mi
- Bradford Nature Preserve: 0.7 mi
- Maturo Drive Playground: 0.9 mi
- Morris Creek Nature Preserve: 0.9 mi
- Old Town Landing: 0.9 mi
- Farm River State Park: 1.2 mi
- Beacon Hill: 2.1 mi
- Raynham Hill: 2.3 mi
- Chidsey Hill: 2.4 mi
- Branford Hill: 2.6 mi
- Beacon Hill: 2.7 mi
- East Haven Fire Department Memorial: 2.2 mi
- 9/11 Memorial: 2.2 mi
- Theodore Roosevelt Oak: 2.2 mi
- World War II Memorial: 2.2 mi
- World War Memorial: 2.2 mi
- The Shore Line Trolley Museum: 2.2 mi
- Connecticut Trolley Museum: 2.5 mi
- Harrison House Museum: 3.6 mi
- Ward Heitmann House Museum: 4.4 mi
- Connecticut Childrens Museum: 5.0 mi
- Grand Acres Community Garden: 4.6 mi
- Washington Ave Community Garden: 4.7 mi
- Truman Street Community Garden: 4.7 mi
- English Street Community Garden: 5.1 mi
- Ferry Street Farm: 5.1 mi
- Wintergreen Falls: 8.4 mi
- Cascade: 8.9 mi
- Cascade: 8.9 mi
- Wepawaug Falls: 11.1 mi
- Sperry Falls: 11.1 mi
- John B Pierce: 4.9 mi
- An American Dream: 4.9 mi
- Henry Gould Lewis: 6.1 mi
- Beacon of Hope: 6.2 mi
- Turtle Statue: 6.5 mi
- Nelli Green's Bridge: 1.7 mi
- PEZ Visitor Center: 6.3 mi
- Dinosaur Rock: 9.1 mi
- Bear Cave: 12.2 mi
- World's Largest Pile of Horseshoes: 13.7 mi
- Gulf Beach Picnic Tables: 9.0 mi
- Picnic Grove: 16.0 mi
- Pond View: 19.2 mi
- The Rotary Pavilion: 19.3 mi
- Oak Grove: 19.6 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 9.2 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 9.2 mi
- Wallingford Rest Area: 15.7 mi
- Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 22.5 mi
- Southington Rest Area: 22.7 mi
- Forbes Bluff: 1.8 mi
- Chimney Corner: 8.5 mi
- Bluff Head: 14.8 mi
- Broomstick Ledges: 14.9 mi
- Pine Ledge: 23.8 mi
- Keeper's Dwelling: 13.4 mi
- Stratford Point Light: 13.4 mi
- Fog Signal House: 13.4 mi
- Tongue Point Light: 16.5 mi
- Cold Spring: 5.9 mi
- Pleasure Beach: 16.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.9 miles of Silver Sands Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Rock | NNW 344° | 216 m | 12.1 mi |
| Mount Carmel | N 357° | 206 m | 12.9 mi |
| Round Hill | NNW 326° | 190 m | 11.8 mi |
| Peck Hill | NW 319° | 183 m | 12.3 mi |
| Totoket Mountain | NNE 29° | 176 m | 12.0 mi |
| Peck Hill | NW 318° | 171 m | 12.0 mi |
| Quonnipaug Mountain | NE 41° | 167 m | 13.9 mi |
| East Sugarloaf | NE 40° | 156 m | 11.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:56 | 18:27 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:19 | 19:47 | 20:29 |
| September equinox | 06:40 | 18:14 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 07:15 | 15:42 | 16:26 |
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 | 39 | 49 | 59 | 68 | 74 | 73 | 66 | 55 | 45 | 36 |
| Precip in | 2.7 | 2.8 | 3.7 | 4.2 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3.4 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 3.1 | 3.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NEW Haven Tweed AP, 1 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Lighthouse Point, New Haven Harbor, CT, 2 miaway — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/359269501
Day trips start here
- Essex · 26 mi
- Old Saybrook · 26 mi
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