region field guide

Oregon Coast

A cool-water Pacific coast of sea stacks, wide tidal beaches, headlands and weather that changes the view by the hour.

Photo: Delicious / Wikimedia Commons

Climate context

What changes through the year

Cold water, sneaker waves, fog and large tidal range are central to trip planning.

Getting around

How the coast connects

US 101 provides the main north–south route, with many public beach access points and state parks.

The coast itself

Oregon Coast in photographs

The coastline as it actually looks, from the places named on this page.

Where and when

Position, and the shape of the year.

Both panels are drawn from facts the atlas holds: recorded coordinates and the latitude itself. Neither is a forecast.

Locator map of Oregon Coast: sourced beach coordinates around 45.882, -123.959, with the destination centre marked — 257 sourced beach records inside a frame roughly 865 km wide, plotted server-side from the atlas index over Natural Earth land outlines (public domain). The marked point is the coordinate in this record; every other mark is a beach record you can open from the directory.

8h 54mJan10h 06mFeb11h 42mMar13h 18mApr14h 48mMay15h 30mJun15h 12mJul13h 54mAug12h 18mSep10h 36mOct9h 12mNov8h 30mDec

Hours between sunrise and sunset, computed from latitude 45.882 alone. This is astronomy, not weather: no temperature, swell, rainfall or “best month” claim is implied for Oregon Coast. Longest around Jun (15h 30m), shortest around Dec (8h 30m) — a 7.0-hour swing across the year.

Launch coverage

Beaches in Oregon Coast

Coverage grows by reviewed entities, not automatically generated locality pages.

North America

Cannon Beach

Cannon Beach · United States

Sand: Tan
Water: Cold Pacific surf

The rest of this coast

Sourced records nearby

58 beach records sit within 60 km of this coordinate. The nearest are listed below with their distance; most carry position and provenance only, and say so on the page.

Search the directory around Oregon Coast →

Destination provenance

Sources

Cannon Beach and Haystack RockCity of Cannon Beach ↗
Municipal source for local context; tidepool and wildlife restrictions should be rechecked before a visit.