United States / Oregon
Cannon Beach
Cannon Beach is a coastal resort area in Oregon, United States. Its longest mapped beach stretches about 6.0 km and has a sand surface. The sea averages 15.1 °C in August, its warmest month, and 9.3 °C in February; it never reaches 21 °C on average.
Average sea surface temperature by month. Current month outlined.
The sea peaks at 15.1 °C in August. Most swimmers find water below 20 °C cold; a wetsuit is common here.
OpenStreetMap shows no lifeguard station within 1 km. Seasonal lifeguard posts are often unmapped, so check on site.
Services in the resort
- 38Restaurants, cafés & bars
- 2Public toilets
- –Showers
- 4Drinking water
- 23Car parks
- –Lifeguard stations
- 33Hotels & guesthouses
- 2Campsites
- 5Grocery shops
- 1Water-sports spots
- 1Playgrounds & water parks
- 7Bus stops (1.5 km)
- 2Cash machines
- 1Bike rental
Food and drink mapped within 1 km: 25 restaurants, 6 cafés and 7 bars. Accommodation: 33 hotels and guesthouses.
Counted within 1 km of the beach (bus stops 1.5 km) from OpenStreetMap features and Overture Maps places, release of 2026-10. Unmapped does not mean absent.
Month by month
October at Cannon Beach
Beach-day index 1.9/10 · United States median 4.5
| Measure | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sea °C | 9.6 °C | 9.3 °C | 9.6 °C | 10.4 °C | 12.4 °C | 14.1 °C | 14.9 °C | 15.1 °C | 14.5 °C | 13.0 °C | 11.3 °C | 10.1 °C |
| High °C | 8° | 8° | 10° | 11° | 14° | 17° | 19° | 19° | 18° | 14° | 10° | 7° |
| Low °C | 3° | 3° | 4° | 5° | 8° | 10° | 11° | 12° | 11° | 8° | 5° | 3° |
| Rain mm | 271 | 168 | 212 | 139 | 83 | 55 | 18 | 28 | 70 | 172 | 276 | 289 |
| Cloud % | 83 | 82 | 85 | 84 | 83 | 80 | 74 | 71 | 63 | 70 | 80 | 83 |
| Wind m/s | 3.8 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 2.9 | 2.6 | 2.5 | 2.4 | 2.2 | 2.4 | 2.9 | 3.5 | 3.8 |
| Daylight h | 9.0 | 10.3 | 11.8 | 13.5 | 14.9 | 15.7 | 15.4 | 14.2 | 12.6 | 11.0 | 9.5 | 8.7 |
| Record high/low | 14°/-7° | 15°/-6° | 19°/-2° | 24°/-1° | 26°/2° | 29°/6° | 30°/8° | 31°/9° | 31°/4° | 26°/-1° | 17°/-5° | 14°/-7° |
| Beach index | 1.2 | 1.8 | 1.5 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 2.8 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 3.0 | 1.9 | 1.2 | 1.2 |
Long-term monthly averages: air from NASA POWER (2001–2020), sea from NOAA OISST (1991–2020); records are the extremes of 2001–2020. How the index works.
When to go
No month reaches 5.5 on the beach-day index; the best is August at 4.0/10, held back mainly by cold water (15.1 °C) and cool air (highs of 19 °C).
At its warmest the water here is 7.4 °C cooler than the United States median for August (22.5 °C).
Across the year the sea averages 12.0 °C, cooler than 84% of the coastal beaches in the atlas.
December is the wettest month (289 mm) and July the driest (18 mm); the yearly total is about 1,780 mm.
Daylight runs from 8.7 hours in December to 15.7 hours in June; in mid-August the sun rises at 06:14 and sets at 20:26 local time.
Orientation, sun and shore
The shore faces west (270°). Open water fills about 47% of the horizon close by, which makes it an open stretch of shore.
The sun sets over the sea in every month; in mid-June it goes down at 21:07 local time on a bearing of 306°.
Straight out to the west there is open water for more than 2,000 km, so the beach is exposed to long ocean swell.
About 1 km offshore the sea is roughly 8 m deep and 33 m at 3 km, a shallow, gently shelving sea floor. Behind the beach the ground is about 43 m above sea level 500 m inland and 92 m at 1.5 km.
Within 1 km, the land is 74% tree cover, 15% built-up land and 8% bare ground, sand or rock (satellite land-cover map, 2021): a partly built-up setting. Water makes up 48% of that circle.
- Tree 74%
- Built 15%
- Bare 8%
- Grass 3%
Land cover: ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m). Orientation from OpenStreetMap land polygons sampled in 36 directions; depths and heights from the GEBCO 2020 grid (about 450 m cells), indicative only.
Getting there
| Airport | Code | Distance | Direction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portland International Airport Portland | PDX | 111 km | east |
| Salem-Willamette Valley Airport/McNary Field Salem | SLE | 131 km | south-east |
| Olympia Regional Airport Olympia | OLM | 146 km | north-east |
Straight-line distances from the beach; road distance is usually 20–40% longer.
Local transport: 7 bus stops within 1.5 km and 23 mapped car parks within 1 km.
1 town or village of 1,000+ people lie within 10 km (about 1.7K residents); within 30 km there are 4 (about 11.1K).
Photos
From above
Around the beach
Attractions & museums
- Cannon Beach History Center and Museum museum 270 m SE
- Oswald West Coastal Retreat museum 930 m S
Islands in view
- Haystack Rock 790 m SW
- The Needles 950 m SW
Diving & boat hire
- FunCycles Cannon Beach 50 m S
Campsites
- Wright's For Camping 480 m SE
- RV Resort at Cannon Beach 570 m E
Map
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Data on this page
- Air temperature, rain, cloud, wind, humidity: NASA POWER climatology 2001–2020, 0.5° grid.
- Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 monthly normals 1991–2020, nearest ocean cell 12.6 km away.
- Beach outline, surface, rules and public facilities: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), feature r11143926; restaurants, cafés, bars and lodging: Overture Maps places (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).
- Water body, status and length: Wikidata (CC0).
- Towns and time zone: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Airports: OurAirports (public domain). Sunrise and sunset: NOAA solar equations.
- Photos: Wikimedia Commons, author and licence under each image.
- Satellite view: Copernicus Sentinel-2 (ESA), scene S2A_10TDR_20230922_0_L2A.
- Orientation: OpenStreetMap land polygons (ODbL). Depth and terrain: GEBCO 2020 grid.
- Settlements: GeoNames places with 1,000+ inhabitants.
- Land cover: ESA WorldCover 2021, 10 m (CC BY 4.0).
- Search popularity: about 246K Google searches a month for the name (KeywordTool, October 2026).
Data compiled 2026-10-13. Something wrong? Report a data error.