Tisbury Town Beach
Tisbury Town Beach is a beach in Massachusetts, at a recorded elevation of -2 m. Peaked Hill stands 95 m to the southwest, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Owen Park Beach, a beach 0.3 miles away. Old King's Highway (Route 6A) passes 21 miles off.
The story
Beach in Dukes County, Massachusetts, United States.
Wikidata Q49325020, joined on its GNIS feature id.
What the record says
- Elevation
- -2 m
How to reach it
- 20.6 mi off the Old King's Highway (Route 6A), National
Named places within 25 miles
- Owen Park: 0.4 mi
- Boch Park: 0.6 mi
- Veterans Memorial Park: 0.8 mi
- Oriental Park: 1.5 mi
- Prospect Park: 1.6 mi
- Tashmoo Hill: 1.5 mi
- Telegraph Hill: 1.8 mi
- Pilot Hill: 2.1 mi
- Nobska Hill: 4.7 mi
- Mount Sod: 5.5 mi
- Owen Park Beach: 0.3 mi
- Eastville Beach: 0.7 mi
- Doug's Cove: 0.9 mi
- Lake Tashmoo Town Beach: 1.7 mi
- Martinelli Beach: 2.1 mi
- Soldiers Memorial: 2.3 mi
- War Memorial: 2.3 mi
- Nobska Lighthouse: 4.7 mi
- Woods Holl: 5.6 mi
- Katharine Lee Bates: 6.2 mi
- Eastville Beach Jetty: 0.7 mi
- Lagoon Bridge Park & Boat Landing: 0.7 mi
- Eastville Point Beach: 0.7 mi
- Carpenters Woods: 0.7 mi
- West Chop Woods: 0.8 mi
- Old Schoolhouse Museum and Liberty Pole: 0.5 mi
- Martha's Vineyard Museum: 0.9 mi
- Cottage Museum: 2.0 mi
- Mariposa Museum: 2.2 mi
- Woods Hole Historical Museum: 5.5 mi
- Flying Horses Carousel: 2.2 mi
- Big Bridge: 4.2 mi
- The Liberté: 5.6 mi
- Falmouth Road Race Starting Line: 5.6 mi
- Falmouth Road Race Finish Line: 5.7 mi
- Husselton Head: 0.5 mi
- North Head: 0.8 mi
- Makonikey Head: 3.4 mi
- Falmouth Heights: 4.9 mi
- Cedar Tree Neck: 5.6 mi
- Garden of Our Lady: 5.8 mi
- Spohr Public Gardens: 5.9 mi
- Colonial Gardens: 6.5 mi
- Mashpee Community Garden: 14.2 mi
- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Garden: 19.4 mi
- Helen Keller: 5.7 mi
- Whale Tail: 5.7 mi
- Rachel Carson: 5.7 mi
- Buddha: 8.9 mi
- Tree of Bike: 13.4 mi
- West Chop Light: 1.2 mi
- Nobska Point Light: 4.7 mi
- Clark's Point Light: 18.0 mi
- truck pull-off: 19.6 mi
- Rest Area SR-25 Welcome Center: 22.0 mi
- Yarmouth Tourist Information Center: 22.3 mi
- Bourne Recreation Area: 19.6 mi
- Herring Run Recreational Area: 21.6 mi
- Crystal Spring: 19.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 23.8 miles of Tisbury Town Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peaked Hill | SW 225° | 95 m | 10.3 mi |
| Pine Hill | N 6° | 93 m | 17.1 mi |
| Flatrock Hill | N 9° | 82 m | 20.4 mi |
| Avery Hill | N 7° | 80 m | 18.7 mi |
| Prospect Hill | SW 229° | 78 m | 10.2 mi |
| Discovery Hill | NNE 21° | 77 m | 19.3 mi |
| Deer Horn Hill | N 2° | 71 m | 13.7 mi |
| Whiting Hill | SW 233° | 68 m | 6.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:47 | 18:18 | 18:55 |
| June solstice | 05:10 | 19:38 | 20:20 |
| September equinox | 06:30 | 18:05 | 18:42 |
| December solstice | 07:06 | 15:32 | 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 | 31 | 32 | 37 | 46 | 55 | 64 | 70 | 69 | 63 | 53 | 45 | 37 |
| Precip in | 3.3 | 2.6 | 4.0 | 3.7 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 2.8 | 3.4 | 3.8 | 4.4 | 4.0 | 3.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Vineyard Haven Marthas Vineyar, 5 mi away.
Mean tidal range 1.59 ft at the nearest NOAA station.
NOAA CO-OPS station VINEYARD HAVEN, VINEYARD HVN HBR, MA, under a mile away — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/358279696
Day trips start here
- SouthCoast · 17 mi
- Marion · 18 mi
- Mattapoisett · 18 mi
- Dartmouth · 22 mi
- New Bedford · 22 mi
- Rochester · 22 mi
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