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📷 nearby coast

Bayview

In United States.
Conditions last modeled 18.1h ago · water 14°
Sunset in
…
Full moon
11.7d
Tide range
normal
5/100

Sunset Score

Dull sky · 16:27
  • High / mid cloud 1% — thin canvas
  • Low cloud / horizon 87% low cloud — likely to block the sunset
  • Haze / aerosol Low — clean, saturated colour
  • Seaward horizon A headland/island blocks the open-water sunset — caps the view
Dull sky unlikely · modeled 5/100 · not a promise · confidence: low
62/100

Sun & Tan

Fair beach-sun day
  • Sky Part cloud · sun in spells
  • Warmth 1° — cool for lying out
  • UV peak (14:00) 0.7 — low
☀️ Low UV — minimal burn risk; a hat is plenty.
modeled forecast · UV + cloud + temperature · confidence: high · modeled forecast · not medical advice
Sunset Score & Sun & Tan from the daily sky cache · refreshed 0h ago — Open-Meteo free tier, no per-view fetch.
Water
14°C
seasonal · 18.1h ago
Swell / Wind
0.46m · 14.9kn
seasonal · 18.1h ago
Sunset
16:27 local
dull sky modeled
Tide
02:15 low -0.55m
next low · modeled (FES2014)
Your beach log — starts at 0, fills with your real check-ins
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Visits here
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Sunsets seen here
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Beaches explored
0
Days on the coast
0
Species spotted
0
Cleanups logged
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Today's best windows

When the water suits each activity — hourly conditions + the tide curve. Forecast — never a promise.
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Low tide
02:15 · -0.55m
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Golden hour
15:46
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Sunset
16:27
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In-water
lighter swell/wind
DawnMiddayAfternoonDuskNight
Next low tide 02:15 (local) — tide-pool + easy-entry window. Tide prediction (next from now) — Open-Meteo · FES2014-based (modeled), refreshed daily. Times local.
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Inside Cape and Islands Ocean Sanctuary — a protected reserve

Reef etiquette applies: reef-safe sunscreen, no touching coral or wildlife, no anchoring on reef. Verified against our marine-protected-area map.

In season near here

Likely around this coast this month, from Ocean Highways — coarsened. Possible, never promised.
🐾 Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec

Loggerhead

Caretta caretta
MiCO meta-site for Loggerhead (Bentley et al. (2025) Marine megavertebrate migrations connect the global ocean. Nat Commun 16:4089. MiCO (mico.eco) — CC-BY 4.0, attribution required; data via Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.14873514.) · IUCN VU · region-level (~110 km) · possible, not pinned to this beach
🐾 Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec

American Manatee

Trichechus manatus
MiCO meta-site for American Manatee (Bentley et al. (2025) Marine megavertebrate migrations connect the global ocean. Nat Commun 16:4089. MiCO (mico.eco) — CC-BY 4.0, attribution required; data via Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.14873514.) · IUCN VU · region-level (~110 km) · possible, not pinned to this beach

Sunset Mode

Tonight's time, the vividness forecast, and where to be.
Tonight · sets at
16:27 local
  • Sunset Score 5 / 100 — Dull
  • Golden hour 15:46 – 16:27
  • Best west-facing spot this beach
  • Source computed astronomy + CAMS aerosol + cloud
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Water & safety: We don't have an official feed or a recent satellite pass here — treat this as unknown, not safe. · algal-bloom proxy: No recent ocean-colour pass. We can't tell you whether it's safe to get in, call the currents, or vouch for marine life — mind the local flags/lifeguard and your own limits. This panel is informational; it never makes a safety call.

Beachfront eat & drink

Venue names free from OpenStreetMap (ODbL). Photos, hours & booking come from a licensed provider — a later phase, credited then.
No mapped beachfront venues here yet (OpenStreetMap) — nothing invented.
Plan your trip 🏨 Stays near United States 🧴 Reef-safe sunscreen Affiliate — we may earn a small commission; price & availability live on the provider. We only suggest reef-safe gear.

What's on around the water

Computed = certain. We never invent an event. (Feed + community events arrive with later phases.)
11.7d

Full moonComputed

Brightest tides + moonlit beach walks around then (full moon = bright sky).

26.4d

Dark-moon nightsComputed

Moonless nights ahead — the best chance for bioluminescence where it occurs (computed, not a sighting promise).

16:27

Tonight’s sunsetComputed

Modeled sky dull (5/100).

Local knowledge

Community + sourced facts that passed our QA pipeline — each labeled with its source & confidence. Unreviewed data never reaches this page; conflicting reports are shown, never silently merged.

area name ⚠ conflicting reports — both kept

Cape Cod Gillnet Restricted Area
sourced · confidence 50% · source

area name ⚠ conflicting reports — both kept

New Bedford Harbor Fishing Prohibited Areas III
sourced · confidence 50% · source

area name ⚠ conflicting reports — both kept

Southern Bluefish Management Area
sourced · confidence 50% · source

designation ⚠ conflicting reports — both kept

Gear Restricted Area
sourced · confidence 50% · source

designation ⚠ conflicting reports — both kept

Closed Area
sourced · confidence 50% · source

eco rules

Inside a marine protected area — check local rules before fishing/collecting/anchoring.
sourced · confidence 50% · source

level of protection

LFP 2/5 — lightly protected
sourced · confidence 50% · source

advisory status ⚠ conflicting reports — both kept

latest sample 1032 #/100mL is ABOVE the EPA single-sample value (70) — informational; check the state beach program for any issued advisory
sourced · confidence 50% · source

advisory status ⚠ conflicting reports — both kept

latest result is qualitative/non-numeric — not compared to a threshold
sourced · confidence 50% · source

indicator

Enterococcus
sourced · confidence 50% · source

result unit

#/100mL
sourced · confidence 50% · source

result value

1032
sourced · confidence 50% · source

sample date ⚠ conflicting reports — both kept

2025-10-16
sourced · confidence 50% · source

sample date ⚠ conflicting reports — both kept

2025-08-26
sourced · confidence 50% · source

station id ⚠ conflicting reports — both kept

SSCW-470A
sourced · confidence 50% · source

station id ⚠ conflicting reports — both kept

21MABCH-MA464209-1
sourced · confidence 50% · source

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Live cams near here

Publicly-listed cams within ~60 km — link-outs only. We never embed or restream a third-party feed.
live cam

🟢 GOMV.COM Woods Hole Harbor & MV Ferry Live Webcam

USA
open live cam ↗ · link-out only — never embedded or restreamed
live cam

🟢 GOMV.COM Vineyard Haven Downtown Live Webcam

USA
open live cam ↗ · link-out only — never embedded or restreamed

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PR#2 live-data slice. Sunset Score & Sun & Tan are modeled forecasts — labeled, not promises or medical advice — served from a daily governed cache (no per-view fetch). Conditions: Conditions & sky: Open-Meteo (modeled, CC-BY 4.0) · Aerosol: Copernicus CAMS · Wildlife: Ocean Highways (MiCO CC-BY / OBIS / GBIF / IUCN) · Protected areas: ProtectedSeas · Inventory: OSM (ODbL) / Wikidata (CC0) · Live cams: link-outs (Windy Webcams + verified aggregators) — never embedded or restreamed. Local times are shown in each beach’s own timezone (IANA tz lookup). Tides are real hi/lo predictions (CO-OPS sensor / Open-Meteo FES2014-based, modeled). Beach orientation + open-water-sunset derived from the GSHHG coastline. Hero photo (where shown): free CC, Wikimedia Commons — credited; illustrated otherwise, never faked. Live cam, restaurant photos, sign-in, comments, check-ins and busy-ness arrive in later phases — shown as "pending", never guessed. Nothing stored in your browser.