Yorktown Beach
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Yorktown Beach is a beach in Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 0 m. Church Hill stands 30 m to the north-northwest, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Cornwallis Surrender Cave Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Colonial Parkway passes 0.4 miles off. 3 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
beach in York County, Virginia, United States
Wikidata Q49325376, joined on its GNIS feature id.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 0 m
How to reach it
- 0.4 mi off the Colonial Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Cornwallis Surrender Cave Park: 0.1 mi
- Yorktown Monument Park: 0.2 mi
- Yorktown Market Days Park: 0.2 mi
- Yorktown Beach Park: 0.2 mi
- Riverwalk Landing: 0.3 mi
- Cornwallis' Cave: 0.1 mi
- Yorktown Monument: 0.2 mi
- Vintage CG Uniforms: 1.7 mi
- CGC Cuyahoga Memorial: 1.8 mi
- Living Classroom: 1.8 mi
- Hubba Hubba Highway: 7.2 mi
- Meltdown: 7.2 mi
- Nitro Racer: 7.3 mi
- Big Daddy Falls: 7.4 mi
- Former Dive Show Area: 7.4 mi
- TRADOC Emblem: 6.6 mi
- Reinvented: 10.6 mi
- Memory of Green: 10.7 mi
- Cast Bronze by M Cleveland: 11.1 mi
- Girl with Butterfly: 11.2 mi
- Museum on Main: 0.2 mi
- Watermen's Museum: 0.4 mi
- Colonial National Historic Park Yorktown Battlefield Visitor Center: 0.4 mi
- American Revolution Museum at Yorktown: 0.7 mi
- Aids to Navigation Museum: 1.8 mi
- Peace Garden: 4.6 mi
- Jenny Russell Giving Garden: 5.1 mi
- David Morton House Garden: 10.5 mi
- Bassett Hall Garden: 10.5 mi
- Christiana Campbell’s Tavern Garden: 10.5 mi
- Kingsmill Beach: 8.7 mi
- Huntington Beach: 15.5 mi
- Fossil Beach: 16.3 mi
- Seining Beach: 16.7 mi
- Grandview Beach: 17.0 mi
- Kingsmill Resort Audubon Sanctuary: 10.2 mi
- Mathews County Land Conservancy: 14.1 mi
- Grandview Natural Preserve: 15.7 mi
- Bethel Beach Natural Area Preserve: 18.3 mi
- Pipsico Reservation: 20.7 mi
- York River Cliffs: 0.9 mi
- Chestnut Bluffs: 14.5 mi
- Holly Point: 18.1 mi
- Pig Hill: 12.9 mi
- Church Hill: 16.7 mi
- Mount Folly: 18.8 mi
- Keeper's House: 19.5 mi
- Old Point Comfort Lighthouse: 19.6 mi
- Picnic Area: 7.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Yorktown Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Church Hill | NNW 342° | 30 m | 16.7 mi |
| Pig Hill | N 3° | 21 m | 12.9 mi |
| Mount Folly | NW 317° | 6 m | 18.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:11 | 18:44 | 19:18 |
| June solstice | 05:47 | 19:52 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:55 | 18:30 | 19:05 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 16:12 | 16:53 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 40 | 42 | 49 | 58 | 67 | 75 | 79 | 77 | 72 | 61 | 51 | 43 |
| Precip in | 3.1 | 2.6 | 3.3 | 3.1 | 3.7 | 4.1 | 4.7 | 5.4 | 4.9 | 4.2 | 3.0 | 3.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Newport News Intl AP, 7 mi away.
Mean tidal range 2.38 ft at the nearest NOAA station.
NOAA CO-OPS station Gloucester Point, VA, under a mileaway — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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