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Hampton Beach New Hampshire Map

Explore Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Hampton Beach, New Hampshire

How to Use This Hampton Beach, New Hampshire Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Hampton Beach, New Hampshire. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of New Hampshire or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Hampton Beach.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Hampton Beach
State	New Hampshire (NH)
County	Rockingham County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	42.907313
Longitude	-70.811997
Population	2,598
Density	788.6 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	03842
Area Code	603
County Seat	Brentwood
School District	Hampton School District

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About Hampton Beach, New Hampshire

Hampton Beach is a locality in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. It has a population of approximately 2,598. The population density is 788.6 people per km². Hampton Beach is located at 42.9073°N, 70.8120°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 03842.

Hampton Beach stretches as a long, pale crescent of sand against the restless, slate-blue expanse of the Atlantic Ocean. It lies 11.6 miles south-southwest of Portsmouth, NH (from Portsmouth, NH: bearing 192°T), and is situated 7.3 miles north-northeast of Newburyport. The air here carries a sharp, saline clarity, a crispness that cuts through the salt-spray to catch the scent of drying seaweed and the distant, sun-warmed granite of the coastline. To the south, the Hampton River carves a narrow, winding path toward the sea, while the jagged silhouettes of Outer Sunk Rocks break the surface like the spines of submerged creatures. Beyond the immediate reach of the dunes, the land flattens into a quiet expanse, and the high, singular elevation of Upper Gills Rock stands as a sentinel over the low-lying terrain. In the late afternoon, the light shifts to a bruised gold, catching the motion of the tides as they pull back from the shoreline, leaving behind a hard-packed, glistening surface that mirrors the vast, empty sky.

Hampton Beach serves as a vibrant pulse of seasonal life, where the industry of hospitality anchors the rhythm of the year against the steady, unchanging tide. Visitors traverse the boardwalk of Hampton Beach State Park, finding a space defined by the deliberate, Yankee independence that has long characterized these salt-battered edges of the continent. While the summer economy thrives on the clamor of arcades and the brisk trade of fried dough, the winter months return the landscape to a stark, quiet dignity, far removed from the bustle of the distant Joppa Flats or the quiet, interior stillness of Eel Pond. There is a perceptible persistence in the way the local architecture faces the water, a collection of timber and stone built to withstand the nor’easters that periodically reshape the dunes. Life here remains tied to the sea, a cycle of ebb and flow that has sustained the spirit of the coast long after the last of the seasonal crowds have departed for the shelter of the inland hills.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Hampton Beach State Park (Marine Protected Area) — 0.0 mi, 097° E
Sea Shell Stage (Theatre) — 0.2 mi, 028° NE
Blue Ocean Discovery Center (Aquarium) — 0.2 mi, 023° NE
Marine Memorial (Monument) — 0.4 mi, 021° N
F&G Hampton Saltmarsh - Perkins (State Conservation Area) — 0.5 mi, 277° W
SPNHF Saltmarsh - Langley and Pierson (Conservation Area) — 0.5 mi, 337° NW
Al Gauron Fishing & Whale Watching (Attraction) — 0.6 mi, 202° S
Former Barge Facility Land (State Conservation Area) — 0.8 mi, 196° S
Audubon Preserve (Local Conservation Area) — 1.0 mi, 280° W
SPNHF Saltmarsh - Penniman (Conservation Area) — 1.3 mi, 012° N
Hampton Water Works Land (Waterfowl Production Area) — 2.2 mi, 003° N
North Shore Ocean Sanctuary (Marine Protected Area) — 2.4 mi, 178° S
Salisbury Beach State Reservation (State Park) — 2.4 mi, 183° S
Lafayette Trail (Monument) — 2.7 mi, 283° W
South Dock (Monument) — 2.8 mi, 199° S
Hampton Falls Historical Society (Museum) — 3.3 mi, 288° W
Carol Whalen Art Studio (Gallery) — 4.2 mi, 343° N
Blue Ocean Music Hall (Theatre) — 4.4 mi, 183° S
Parker River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 6.4 mi, 183° S · 14k acres
Osprey: Pandion Haliaetus (Public Artwork) — 7.1 mi, 201° S
Newburyport Art Association (Gallery) — 7.2 mi, 202° S
Bartlett Museum (Museum) — 7.3 mi, 234° SW
Parker River Proposed Wilderness Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 8.1 mi, 180° S · 2,240 acres
Exeter Fire Museum (Museum) — 8.4 mi, 306° NW
Exeter Fine Crafts (Gallery) — 8.5 mi, 307° NW
Triple Giant Slides (Attraction) — 9.0 mi, 010° N
Wet Meadows Viewing Platform (Viewpoint) — 9.6 mi, 211° SW
Oaklands Town Forest (Nature Reserve) — 10.4 mi, 315° NW
Fishermans Shack (Historic Ruins) — 10.6 mi, 028° NE
Petit Manan National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 12.2 mi, 057° NE · 21k acres

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