Southwest Beach
Southwest Beach is a beach in Massachusetts, at a recorded elevation of 2 m. Pine Hill stands 93 m to the northeast, 5.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Scraggy Neck Forest, a nature reserve 0.3 miles away. Old King's Highway (Route 6A) passes 10 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2 m
How to reach it
- 10.4 mi off the Old King's Highway (Route 6A), National
Named places within 25 miles
- Saconesset Homestead and Museum: 3.9 mi
- Bourne Historical Society: 6.2 mi
- Captain John Kendrick Maritime: 7.2 mi
- Falmouth Museums on the Green: 7.6 mi
- Kendrick House Museum: 7.9 mi
- Mt. Otis: 3.1 mi
- Mt. Zig: 3.1 mi
- Deer Horn Hill: 3.1 mi
- Tempes Knob: 4.0 mi
- Telegraph Hill: 4.5 mi
- Nye Park: 1.7 mi
- Pocasset River Marine Park: 2.8 mi
- Picture Lake Park: 3.2 mi
- Monks Marine Park: 3.2 mi
- Chester Park: 4.3 mi
- Maritime Park: 5.4 mi
- HU-25 Falcon: 6.4 mi
- HU-16 Albatross: 6.4 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 6.4 mi
- Katharine Lee Bates: 7.8 mi
- Sunrise Beach: 0.6 mi
- Merriam Beach: 0.7 mi
- Eustis Beach: 0.9 mi
- Barlow's Landing Beach: 2.4 mi
- North Shore Beach: 2.6 mi
- Scraggy Neck Forest: 0.3 mi
- Scraggy Neck Shoreline Res: 0.8 mi
- Bassetts Island Landing: 1.2 mi
- Lawrence Island: 1.3 mi
- Red Brook Harbor Overlook: 1.8 mi
- The Liberté: 8.5 mi
- Falmouth Road Race Finish Line: 8.6 mi
- Herring Run: 8.8 mi
- Butterflies of Cape Cod: 9.0 mi
- Falmouth Road Race Starting Line: 9.6 mi
- Falmouth Cliffs: 2.8 mi
- Hog Island: 4.3 mi
- The Cliffs: 4.3 mi
- Falmouth Heights: 9.7 mi
- bluff: 10.4 mi
- Colonial Gardens: 7.6 mi
- Spohr Public Gardens: 8.3 mi
- Mashpee Community Garden: 8.6 mi
- Dexter Rhododendron Garden: 9.4 mi
- Garden of Our Lady: 9.4 mi
- Tree of Bike: 2.6 mi
- Merchant Marine Memorial: 5.4 mi
- Helen Keller: 9.6 mi
- Whale Tail: 9.6 mi
- Rachel Carson: 9.6 mi
- Nobska Point Light: 10.1 mi
- West Chop Light: 12.8 mi
- Clark's Point Light: 13.9 mi
- Plymouth Light: 23.7 mi
- Pumphouse: 23.7 mi
- Rest Area SR-25 Welcome Center: 8.4 mi
- truck pull-off: 12.8 mi
- Yarmouth Tourist Information Center: 18.7 mi
- Massachusetts Tourist Information Center: 18.9 mi
- Bourne Recreation Area: 6.6 mi
- Herring Run Recreational Area: 8.9 mi
- Crystal Spring: 9.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 18.3 miles of Southwest Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pine Hill | NE 54° | 93 m | 5.4 mi |
| Flatrock Hill | NE 42° | 82 m | 8.6 mi |
| Avery Hill | NE 45° | 80 m | 6.7 mi |
| Deer Horn Hill | E 93° | 71 m | 3.1 mi |
| Whiting Hill | S 189° | 68 m | 18.0 mi |
| Flagg Hill | N 1° | 64 m | 15.8 mi |
| Pinnacle Hill | N 355° | 62 m | 17.0 mi |
| Discovery Hill | NE 35° | 61 m | 8.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:47 | 18:18 | 18:55 |
| June solstice | 05:09 | 19:39 | 20:21 |
| September equinox | 06:31 | 18:05 | 18:42 |
| December solstice | 07:07 | 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 | 30 | 31 | 37 | 46 | 57 | 66 | 73 | 71 | 64 | 54 | 44 | 36 |
| Precip in | 4.2 | 3.7 | 5.6 | 4.6 | 3.8 | 3.7 | 3.1 | 3.6 | 4.5 | 5.0 | 4.5 | 5.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — E Wareham, 7 mi away.
Mean tidal range 3.82 ft at the nearest NOAA station.
NOAA CO-OPS station Chappaquoit Point, West Falmouth Harbor, MA, 4 mi away — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/358274669
Day trips start here
- Marion · 6 mi
- Wareham · 8 mi
- Mattapoisett · 9 mi
- Rochester · 10 mi
- SouthCoast · 10 mi
- New Bedford · 15 mi
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