Sunsets on East Coast?
 

Where are the best beach sunsets???

Well, keep in mind that the sun doesn't set over the water in most places. It does rise over the Atlantic, though. Sunrises can be really gorgeous. If you want to see the sun setting over water, you generally need to be facing a bay or inlet. I understand there is a place on Cape Cod where there is a nice beach facing west and great sunsets. Generally the farther north you go, the better the sunset.

The most beautiful sunsets are over Lake Ontario in Northern NY, Oswego to be more precise...but I know that's now what you are looking for...

Madaket Beach on Nantucket.

Any island or peninsula with ocean to the west. As mentioned, the sun sets in the west.

Madaket is beautiful! Gay Head on Martha's Vineyard is also gorgeous.

Naples Florida anytime OR Robert Moses State Park on Long Island, NY in early January.... don't laugh. very cold, but very beautiful. The day is so short in early January, that the sun actually sets over the Atlantic ocean in NY.

Not "beach" but I love watching the sun set as I dine on the porch of the Zane Grey lounge in Islamorada in the Keys. The view is of the marina, but the palm trees, the soft cool breeze and the good food. Yes!

Any place you have an island or a peninsula that gets you water on both sides will probably get you a sunset over the water. Likewise, in the times of the year when the sun is very far south, a spit of land with a wide southern-facing beach will give you a sunset.

Many, many islands qualify from Maine to Florida, but you also have capes like Cape Anne and Cape Cod, as well as all of the barrier islands like the Outer Banks -- have seen some spectacular sunsets over Albemarle and Pamlico sound.

And then don't forget the entire Gulf Coast of Florida.

Most of the western-facing beaches on the East Coast are on bays, which aren't usually the best beaches (in my experience). The exception is the Gulf of Mexico.

Nice sunsets can be seen from the harbor islands off of Portland Maine.

Menemsha beach, Martha's Vineyard.

MarieF has it right. Madaket, Warren's Landing, and Eel Point on the west end of Nantucket are my favorites.

Great Point, Wauwinet, and Pocomo Point on the east end of the island are also good.

Jetties or Steps Beach. For a delicious expensive dinner with sunset, the Galley at the Cliffside Beach Club.

Neport, Jamestown, and Block Island in Rhode Island, the North Shore of Long Island, and most barrier islands have nice sunsets.

The entire West Coast of Florida and the Florida Keys from Islamorada to Key West.

Gosh, I have been lucky to have seen so many!

South Beach on Bald Head Island.

At the pier on the man-made island of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge/Tunnel in Virginia.

Sunset Baech, NC, hence, the name...

Atlantic Beach, NC has a beautiful sunset over the ocean in the Winter.

Parts of Newport that look west over the Harbor are nice. Perhaps Castle Point.

On the Jersey shore both Long Beach Island and peninsula that runs from Point Pleasant to Island Beach State Park have westward views over Barneget Bay, etc.

The one advantage the east coast has are the sunrises over the beach. When I had a house in Bay Head at least a few times a summer I'd get up at sunrise and walk the beach.

key west

Top of La Concha in Key West and Race Point beach in Provincetown