Beach Guide

Rocky Neck Beach

Calm bay water · stone pavilion · marsh birds

Sunset
nightly

Sunset Cam

hit time-lapse
SUNSET CAM
LIVE cam

Animated preview · watch the live Rocky Neck State Park cam →

Tonight’s Lineup

artisans & buskers
🪺

Salt Marsh Birds

at dusk

🌅

Bay Sunset

at sunset

🦀

Evening Crabbers

at high tide

🚂

Shoreline Trains

all evening

Sunset Score

cloud-color forecast
8OUT OF 10

High cirrus rolling in — expect fire skies.

Know Before You Go

Beach access

state park

free for CT vehicles; out-of-state fee

Best sunset

west end

Niantic Bay opens to the west

Crab & fish

the pavilion

crabbing and casting off the jetty

Landmark

stone pavilion

1930s Ellie Mitchell Pavilion

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 Rocky Neck State Park webcam. The Rocky Neck Sunset runs nightly, weather permitting, from about two hours before sunset.

At Rocky Neck State Park, the sun sets at 8:05 PM today — about 14h 18m of daylight. Sunrise was 5:47 AM. Live water temperature, surf height, UV index, wind and tide for Rocky Neck State Park update at the top of the conditions page.