South Cape Beach
South Cape Beach is a beach in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 1 m. Peaked Hill stands 95 m to the southwest, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is South Cape Beach State Park, a nature reserve 0.2 miles away. Old King's Highway (Route 6A) passes 13 miles off.
The story
Beach in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States.
Wikidata Q49324837, matched on coordinates and name (265 m apart).
What to expect
- Access
- Yes
How to reach it
- 12.9 mi off the Old King's Highway (Route 6A), National
Named places within 25 miles
- Childs River Access: 2.3 mi
- Fonseca Park: 3.1 mi
- Coonamessett Greenway Heritage Trail: 4.0 mi
- Teaticket Park: 4.5 mi
- Central Park: 4.6 mi
- Telegraph Hill: 6.3 mi
- Riddle Hill: 6.8 mi
- Swifts Hill: 6.9 mi
- The Knob: 7.9 mi
- Mt. Otis: 7.9 mi
- Menahaunt Beach: 2.3 mi
- Menauhant Beach: 2.4 mi
- Bristol Beach: 4.2 mi
- Oregon Beach: 4.6 mi
- Loop Beach: 5.3 mi
- Falmouth Police Memorial: 4.9 mi
- Katharine Lee Bates: 5.5 mi
- Location of Hotel Attaquin: 6.9 mi
- Mashpee Veterans' War Monument: 6.9 mi
- Soldiers Memorial: 6.9 mi
- Cape Cod Children's Museum: 3.2 mi
- Historical Society of Santuit and Cotuit: 5.5 mi
- Falmouth Museums on the Green: 5.7 mi
- Cahoon Museum of American Art: 6.7 mi
- Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Museum: 6.9 mi
- South Cape Beach State Park: 0.2 mi
- Parkers Island Tract: 1.4 mi
- Five Islands: 1.6 mi
- Prime View Conservation Area: 1.9 mi
- Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve: 2.0 mi
- Falmouth Road Race Finish Line: 4.6 mi
- The Liberté: 5.1 mi
- Flying Horses Carousel: 6.9 mi
- Marstons Mills Herring Run: 8.5 mi
- Falmouth Road Race Starting Line: 8.6 mi
- bluff: 4.3 mi
- Husselton Head: 7.2 mi
- Falmouth Heights: 7.6 mi
- North Head: 8.0 mi
- Falmouth Cliffs: 8.5 mi
- Colonial Gardens: 5.7 mi
- Mashpee Community Garden: 6.9 mi
- Spohr Public Gardens: 6.9 mi
- Garden of Our Lady: 8.5 mi
- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Garden: 12.1 mi
- Buddha: 1.2 mi
- Helen Keller: 8.6 mi
- Whale Tail: 8.6 mi
- Rachel Carson: 8.6 mi
- Tree of Bike: 8.7 mi
- West Chop Light: 6.8 mi
- Nobska Point Light: 7.9 mi
- Clark's Point Light: 20.5 mi
- truck pull-off: 12.0 mi
- Yarmouth Tourist Information Center: 14.7 mi
- Rest Area SR-25 Welcome Center: 16.7 mi
- Bourne Recreation Area: 14.1 mi
- Herring Run Recreational Area: 15.6 mi
- Crystal Spring: 19.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 21.6 miles of South Cape Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peaked Hill | SW 222° | 95 m | 17.9 mi |
| Pine Hill | NNW 345° | 93 m | 11.3 mi |
| Flatrock Hill | N 354° | 82 m | 14.1 mi |
| Avery Hill | NNW 349° | 80 m | 12.8 mi |
| Discovery Hill | N 10° | 77 m | 12.2 mi |
| Deer Horn Hill | NNW 331° | 71 m | 8.6 mi |
| Whiting Hill | SW 225° | 68 m | 14.2 mi |
| Mountain Hill | N 353° | 61 m | 20.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:46 | 18:18 | 18:54 |
| June solstice | 05:09 | 19:38 | 20:20 |
| September equinox | 06:30 | 18:05 | 18:41 |
| December solstice | 07:06 | 15:31 | 16:16 |
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 | 32 | 33 | 37 | 47 | 56 | 65 | 72 | 72 | 66 | 56 | 46 | 38 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Woods Hole Golf Club, 8 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Poponesset Island, Poponesset Bay, MA, 3 mi away — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/83337624
Day trips start here
- Marion · 17 mi
- Mattapoisett · 18 mi
- SouthCoast · 18 mi
- Wareham · 18 mi
- Rochester · 20 mi
- New Bedford · 23 mi
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