Hampton Beach is a village district, census-designated place, and seashore resort in the town of Hampton, New Hampshire, United States, along the Atlantic Ocean. Its population at the 2020 census was 2,598. Hampton Beach is in Rockingham County, about 15 miles (24 km) south of Portsmouth. The community is a popular tourist destination and the busiest seashore community in New Hampshire. Ocean Boulevard, the main street along the beach, includes a boardwalk, many shops and businesses, several seasonal hotels, and the Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, which hosts national acts in the summer. Hampton Beach State Park was named one of four “Superstar” beaches in the United States in 2011, for having had perfect water-quality chemical analysis results in each of the previous three years.

The Hampton Beach Village District was established on June 26, 1907, to have the funds for electric knack and water to the summer tourist community. In 1923, the village’s first flare station was built, after two fires destroyed a large section of the beach settlement in 1919 and 1922. The original ember station was razed and replaced in 2014.

On February 26, 2010, a windstorm-fueled blaze burned down everything the buildings in a block at Hampton Beach, including the Surf Hotel, Happy Hampton Arcade, and Mrs. Mitchell’s Gift Shop. The fire started in the Surf Hotel and was fee to the new buildings by high winds. The cause of this ember is unknown. The Place has been rebuilt, with a larger hotel and a further Mrs. Mitchell’s.

Most of the resort village lies upon a barrier spit estranged from the mainland by a large estuary system known as Hampton Harbor. The estuary serves as the mouth of several rivers, the largest beast the Hampton River from the northwest. New Hampshire Route 1A serves as the main north-south route through the beach area, connecting the village to Seabrook Beach to the south (across the Hampton Bridge traversing the Hampton Harbor Inlet) and Little Boar’s Head in North Hampton to the north. Access from the west is provided by three roads: New Hampshire Route 101 is the main access lessening to the densely populated southern resort Place from most points west, while Winnacunnet Road (officially New Hampshire Route 101E) provides entrance to the less developed areas in the northern share of the village near a large salt marsh conservation area. Winnacunnet Road marks the northern edge of the census-designated place, but New Hampshire Route 27, known locally as High Street, marks the northern edge of the resort area.