West Shore Sandy Beach
West Shore Sandy Beach is a beach in Maine, at a recorded elevation of -1 m. Atherton Hill stands 178 m to the north-northwest, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Memorial Woods, a nature reserve 0.2 miles away. PEQUAWKET TRAIL SCENIC BYWAY passes 19 miles off.
The story
beach in Cumberland County, Maine, United States
Wikidata Q33346582, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- -1 m
How to reach it
- 19.5 mi off the PEQUAWKET TRAIL SCENIC BYWAY
Named places within 25 miles
- Memorial Woods: 0.2 mi
- Memorial Woods: 0.2 mi
- Memorial Woods: 0.2 mi
- The Quiet Oaks: 0.3 mi
- Bishop Healy Woods: 0.4 mi
- Fort Gorges: 0.5 mi
- Fort Scammell: 0.9 mi
- Fort Preble: 1.3 mi
- Liberty Ship Memorial: 1.3 mi
- Mast of the USS Portland: 1.4 mi
- Ballfield: 1.1 mi
- Picnic Point: 1.2 mi
- Trott-Littlejohn Park: 1.3 mi
- Bug Light Park: 1.4 mi
- Marada Adams Park: 1.7 mi
- Community Garden: 1.4 mi
- Casco Bay Community Garden: 1.9 mi
- Boyd Street Community Garden: 2.2 mi
- Bayside Community Garden: 2.4 mi
- Wadsworth-Longfellow Gardens: 2.5 mi
- Farm Hill: 1.5 mi
- Hunger Hill: 2.5 mi
- Meetinghouse Hill: 2.5 mi
- Graves Hill: 3.4 mi
- Rocky Hill: 4.0 mi
- Centennial Beach: 0.7 mi
- Sunset Beach: 0.8 mi
- Lobster Pound Beach: 0.8 mi
- Seaglass Beach: 1.0 mi
- Sandy Beach: 1.1 mi
- Tug Stamford Propeller: 1.7 mi
- Portland Observatory: 1.8 mi
- Portland Discovery Land and Sea Tours: 2.1 mi
- Elks Club: 5.4 mi
- Ampitheater: 6.1 mi
- Umbrella Cover Museum: 0.9 mi
- Fifth Maine Regiment Museum: 1.2 mi
- Cushing's Point Museum: 1.4 mi
- Fort McKinley Museum: 1.6 mi
- Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum: 1.7 mi
- The Armillary: 1.9 mi
- Triangles At Work: 2.6 mi
- Seven: 2.6 mi
- Duck House: 3.0 mi
- Cloud Couch: 3.0 mi
- White Head Cliff: 1.6 mi
- The Cliffs: 1.7 mi
- Cod Ledges: 1.9 mi
- Cunner Ledges: 2.0 mi
- Spurwink Rock Ledge: 6.1 mi
- Presumpscot Falls: 4.9 mi
- First Falls: 9.4 mi
- Cascade Falls Waterfall: 12.8 mi
- Steep Falls: 24.1 mi
- Bug Light: 1.3 mi
- Limington Rapids Rest Area: 22.6 mi
- Cold Bowling Spring: 23.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.2 miles of West Shore Sandy Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atherton Hill | NNW 327° | 178 m | 13.1 mi |
| Blackstrap Hill | NW 320° | 151 m | 8.5 mi |
| Baker Mountain | NW 323° | 149 m | 14.1 mi |
| Leighton Hill | NW 314° | 145 m | 8.3 mi |
| Libby Hill | NW 321° | 144 m | 12.2 mi |
| Bruce Hill | NNW 346° | 136 m | 11.5 mi |
| Poplar Ridge | NNW 327° | 133 m | 10.9 mi |
| Blackstrap Hill | NW 315° | 129 m | 7.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:45 | 18:15 | 18:53 |
| June solstice | 05:00 | 19:43 | 20:27 |
| September equinox | 06:29 | 18:02 | 18:40 |
| December solstice | 07:12 | 15:20 | 16:07 |
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 | 24 | 26 | 34 | 45 | 55 | 64 | 70 | 69 | 62 | 50 | 40 | 30 |
| Precip in | 3.5 | 3.5 | 4.1 | 4.4 | 3.7 | 4.1 | 3.4 | 3.6 | 3.8 | 5.3 | 4.2 | 4.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Portland Jetport, 5 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Great Diamond Island, ME, under a mileaway — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/677500092
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