Whether using binoculars, a small telescope or the naked-eye, the Heavens-Above
website can help you to find your way around the night-time sky. In addition to detailed
sky charts, their website will help you find planets, asteriods, comets, satellites and their tracks across the sky.
To give accurate results, Heavens-Above requires the latitude and longitude of your location. As a starting point, when we link to Heavens-Above,
we pass this GPS location for Manhattan Beach:
40.577327, -73.947082
Once you're on the Heavens-Above website, you can improve its accuracy by giving a more precise longitude and latitude as your actual position.
Open the Heavens-Above website centered on Manhattan Beach
Bird Watching ...
We enjoy finding new spots for bird watching and we use the eBird website for local sighting reports and to help identify hotspots.
The eBird website is organized on a county-by-county basis. We have selected Kings County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found six communities that are also named Manhattan Beach.
Within New York, the name Manhattan Beach is unique.
Beyond New York, we know of six communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
California
Los Angeles County
This Manhattan Beach is located in Los Angeles County and lies 2,461 miles [3,960.6 km]<1> to the west of the Manhattan Beach that is located in Kings County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Los Angeles County community of Manhattan Beach.
Florida
Duval County
This Manhattan Beach is located in Duval County and lies 819 miles [1,318.1 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Manhattan Beach that is located in Kings County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Duval County community of Manhattan Beach.
Maryland
Anne Arundel County
This Manhattan Beach is located in Anne Arundel County and lies 171 miles [275.2 km]<1> to the southwest of the Manhattan Beach that is located in Kings County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anne Arundel County community of Manhattan Beach.
Minnesota
Crow Wing County
This Manhattan Beach is located in Crow Wing County and lies 1,090 miles [1,754.2 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Manhattan Beach that is located in Kings County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Crow Wing County community of Manhattan Beach.
Ohio
Cuyahoga County
This Manhattan Beach is located in Cuyahoga County and lies 402 miles [647 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Manhattan Beach that is located in Kings County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cuyahoga County community of Manhattan Beach.
Oregon
Tillamook County
This Manhattan Beach is located in Tillamook County and lies 2,503 miles [4,028.2 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Manhattan Beach that is located in Kings County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tillamook County community of Manhattan Beach.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Manhattan Beach ...
As we travel, we always see a community with a name that gives pause. While there are names which are interesting or familiar, some catch our attention or strike our fancy. We always wonder about such a name. If time permits and the community is not too far, we'll usually try to make a side-trip.
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers & Almanacs that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Manhattan Beach to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Manhattan Beach and extending to:
Albany, which is the State Capital of New York, lies 143 miles [230.1 km]<1> to the north (N). If you could drive a straight line from Manhattan Beach to Albany, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 9 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 200 miles [321.9 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving would take a little over three hours, a buggy would take 8 days and walking would take 12 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,697 miles [9,168.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,402 miles [10,303 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,279 miles [6,886.4 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Manhattan Beach) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>
While we have tried to pick reasonable speeds, the rate of travel is very theoretical - obstacles like fences, hills, lakes, river crossings and rest stops have been ignored. When we say 'Days' of travel, we're assuming 8 hours of travel per day.
<4>
The shortest line can be visualized by stretching a string on a Globe from Point A to Point B - this is known as a Great Circle Route. Where you might expect the shortest route from Manhattan Beach to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Manhattan Beach. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.5773, Longitude: -73.9471 In this case, the coordinates for Manhattan Beach have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 305.923 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 301.473 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 302.699 degrees.