South Beach
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South Beach is a beach in Massachusetts, at a recorded elevation of 1 m. Folger Hill stands 33 m to the east, 4.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Clean Shore, a beach 0.1 miles away. 130 named places lie within 25 miles, 14 of them named summits.
The story
Beach in Nantucket County, Massachusetts, USA.
Wikidata Q49324826, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1 m
How to reach it
130 named places within 25 miles
- Town Dock: 0.2 mi
- The Creeks: 0.5 mi
- Monomoy: 0.7 mi
- Water Dept. Land: 0.9 mi
- North Beach Street: 1.0 mi
- Clean Shore: 0.1 mi
- Childrens Beach: 0.5 mi
- Monomoy Beach: 0.6 mi
- Pest House Shore: 0.9 mi
- Rest House Shore: 0.9 mi
- Museum of African American History: 0.3 mi
- Quaker Meeting House: 0.3 mi
- Hadwen House: 0.4 mi
- Nantucket Whaling Museum: 0.4 mi
- Thomas Macy House: 0.4 mi
- Consue Springs: 0.3 mi
- Mill Hill Park: 0.4 mi
- Dead Horse Valley: 0.5 mi
- Greater Light Garden: 0.5 mi
- Lilly Pond: 0.6 mi
- Sunset Hill: 0.9 mi
- Popsquatchet Hills: 0.9 mi
- Fudge Hill: 2.0 mi
- Swain Hill: 2.4 mi
- Shawkemo Hills: 2.6 mi
- Soldier and Sailors Monument: 0.5 mi
- Abiah Folger Franklin Fountain: 1.6 mi
- Sankaty Head Light: 6.7 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Dwelling: 6.7 mi
- cannon: 22.7 mi
- Nantucket Cliffs: 1.5 mi
- Squam Head: 6.1 mi
- Sankaty Head: 6.8 mi
- Wasque Point: 19.2 mi
- Hadwen House Gardens: 0.4 mi
- Oldest House Kitchen Garden: 0.8 mi
- Brant Point Light: 0.7 mi
- Whale Tail: 22.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of South Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Folger Hill | E 90° | 33 m | 4.4 mi |
| Sampson Hill | WNW 289° | 28 m | 21.3 mi |
| Shawkemo Hills | E 85° | 26 m | 2.6 mi |
| Sauls Hills | E 91° | 23 m | 4.5 mi |
| Popsquatchet Hills | W 259° | 22 m | 0.9 mi |
| Washaqua Hill | WNW 287° | 22 m | 20.5 mi |
| Macys Hill | E 89° | 19 m | 3.6 mi |
| Fudge Hill | ENE 77° | 18 m | 2.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:45 | 18:16 | 18:53 |
| June solstice | 05:08 | 19:36 | 20:18 |
| September equinox | 06:28 | 18:03 | 18:39 |
| December solstice | 07:04 | 15:31 | 16:15 |
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 | 33 | 34 | 38 | 46 | 54 | 62 | 69 | 69 | 64 | 55 | 46 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.8 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 2.7 | 3.0 | 3.6 | 4.4 | 3.8 | 3.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Nantucket MEM AP, 3 mi away.
Mean tidal range 3.03 ft at the nearest NOAA station.
NOAA CO-OPS station NANTUCKET, MA, under a mile away — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358279636
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