Beach Guide

Popham Beach & the Kennebec Mouth

Sunset over the Kennebec mouth -- Seguin Light offshore, the Fox Island sandbar and Fort Popham's granite turning gold

Sunset
nightly

Sunset Cam

hit time-lapse
SUNSET CAM
LIVE cam

Animated preview · watch the live Popham Beach cam →

Tonight’s Lineup

artisans & buskers
🗼

Seguin Island Light

on the horizon

🏰

Fort Popham

at golden hour

🏝

Fox Island Sandbar

at low tide

🌊

Kennebec Surf

all day

🦅

Ospreys & Eagles

at dusk

Sunset Score

cloud-color forecast
8OUT OF 10

High cirrus rolling in — expect fire skies.

Know Before You Go

Park access

day-use fee

$8 non-res / $6 Maine, 9 AM-sunset

Sunset side

over water

beach faces SW at the river mouth

Fox Island

low tide only

sandbar floods fast -- watch the tide

Best photo

Fort Popham

granite & Seguin Light at dusk

applause at the dip

Sunset time, countdown and the Sunset Score are computed live from Open-Meteo’s real cloud forecast at each day’s sunset hour. The in-page cam is an animated preview — tap “live cam” for the real Popham Beach webcam. The Kennebec Mouth Sunset runs nightly, weather permitting, from about two hours before sunset.

At Popham Beach, the sun sets at 8:01 PM today — about 14h 31m of daylight. Sunrise was 5:31 AM. Live water temperature, surf height, UV index, wind and tide for Popham Beach update at the top of the conditions page.