Closest Beaches

Beaches Near Newark, NJ

Newark sits roughly an hour from the northern Jersey Shore via the Garden State Parkway. Sandy Hook is about 45 miles southeast (around an hour without traffic) and offers federal-park beaches with a Manhattan skyline view; Asbury Park is 48 miles south, about an hour, with a walkable boardwalk and a livelier scene. Summer Parkway traffic on weekends materially extends both drives.

Plan This Week

This Afternoon looks like the best day across this list.

Strongest single forecast: Spring Lake on This Afternoon (87).

Within 60 mi

Coney Island Beach & Boardwalk

15 mi · ~22 min drive · Kings County, NY

Ideal for a beach walk.

73°F water 82°F air 10 mph wind Best this week: This Afternoon (85)

Manhattan Beach Park

16 mi · ~23 min drive · Kings County, NY

Ideal for a beach walk.

73°F water 78°F air 12 mph wind Best this week: This Afternoon (83)

Brighton Beach

16 mi · ~23 min drive · Kings County, NY

Ideal for a beach walk.

73°F water 78°F air 12 mph wind Best this week: This Afternoon (83)

Sandy Hook (Gateway NRA)

22 mi · ~32 min drive · Monmouth County, NJ

Ideal for a beach walk.

75°F water 78°F air 5 to 10 mph wind Best this week: This Afternoon (85)

Orchard Beach and Promenade

22 mi · ~32 min drive · Bronx County, NY

Ideal for a beach walk.

70°F water 79°F air 3 to 9 mph wind Best this week: This Afternoon (84)

Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk

22 mi · ~32 min drive · Queens County, NY

Ideal for a beach walk.

73°F water 79°F air 10 mph wind Best this week: This Afternoon (85)

Long Beach (NY)

29 mi · ~41 min drive · Nassau County, NY

Ideal for a beach walk.

75°F water 79°F air 9 mph wind Best this week: This Afternoon (86)

Playland Beach

30 mi · ~44 min drive · Westchester County, NY

Ideal for a beach walk.

70°F water 81°F air 3 to 7 mph wind Best this week: This Afternoon (85)

Asbury Park

36 mi · ~52 min drive · Monmouth County, NJ

Ideal for swimming.

75°F water 84°F air 5 mph wind Best this week: This Afternoon (86)

Jones Beach State Park

36 mi · ~52 min drive · Nassau County, NY

Ideal for a beach walk.

75°F water 76°F air 9 mph wind Best this week: This Afternoon (85)

Belmar

39 mi · ~56 min drive · Monmouth County, NJ

Ideal for swimming.

75°F water 76°F air 5 to 10 mph wind Best this week: This Afternoon (85)

Spring Lake

42 mi · ~1 hr drive · Monmouth County, NJ

Ideal for swimming.

75°F water 81°F air 5 mph wind Best this week: This Afternoon (87)

Manasquan

44 mi · ~1 hr 3 min drive · Monmouth County, NJ

Ideal for swimming.

75°F water 86°F air 5 mph wind Best this week: This Afternoon (86)

Point Pleasant Beach

45 mi · ~1 hr 5 min drive · Ocean County, NJ

Ideal for swimming.

75°F water 81°F air 5 mph wind Best this week: This Afternoon (87)

Calf Pasture Beach

47 mi · ~1 hr 8 min drive · Fairfield County, CT

Ideal for a beach walk.

78°F air 6 mph wind Best this week: This Afternoon (86)

Robert Moses State Park

48 mi · ~1 hr 9 min drive · Suffolk County, NY

Ideal for swimming.

75°F water 78°F air 9 mph wind Best this week: This Afternoon (86)

Sunken Meadow State Park

49 mi · ~1 hr 10 min drive · Suffolk County, NY

Ideal for a beach walk.

70°F water 84°F air 5 mph wind Best this week: This Afternoon (84)

Compo Beach

50 mi · ~1 hr 12 min drive · Fairfield County, CT

Ideal for a beach walk.

83°F air 5 mph wind Best this week: This Afternoon (86)

Sherwood Island State Park

51 mi · ~1 hr 14 min drive · Fairfield County, CT

Ideal for a beach walk.

82°F air 5 mph wind Best this week: This Afternoon (86)

Seaside Heights

55 mi · ~1 hr 19 min drive · Ocean County, NJ

Ideal for swimming.

75°F water 79°F air 10 mph wind Best this week: This Afternoon (86)

Seaside Park

57 mi · ~1 hr 21 min drive · Ocean County, NJ

Ideal for swimming.

75°F water 79°F air 10 mph wind Best this week: This Afternoon (86)

Fire Island National Seashore — Watch Hill

62 mi · ~1 hr 29 min drive · Suffolk County, NY

Ideal for swimming.

75°F water 78°F air 9 mph wind Best this week: This Afternoon (86)

Island Beach State Park

62 mi · ~1 hr 30 min drive · Ocean County, NJ

Ideal for swimming.

75°F water 80°F air 10 mph wind Best this week: This Afternoon (86)

Smith Point County Park

68 mi · ~1 hr 38 min drive · Suffolk County, NY

Ideal for swimming.

75°F water 77°F air 8 mph wind Best this week: This Afternoon (86)

Barnegat Lighthouse State Park

68 mi · ~1 hr 39 min drive · Ocean County, NJ

Ideal for a beach walk.

75°F water 80°F air 10 to 15 mph wind Best this week: Monday (86)

Distance is straight-line, drive times are estimates

Mileage shown is straight-line distance from the center of Newark. Real drive times depend on highway routing, weekend traffic, and where in the metro you start. For summer Saturdays, plan 20–40 minutes longer than the estimates here. The range slider above filters by the same straight-line distance.