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Rye Ocean Beach in Mornington Peninsula is an exposed beach and reef break that has quite consistent surf and can work at any time of the year. The best wind direction is from the northeast. Groundswells more frequent than windswells and the best swell direction is from the southwest. The beach breaks offer lefts and rights and there is right hand reef break too.. It's sometimes crowded here. Hazards include rips and rocks.

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Overall Rye Ocean Beach Surf Consistency and Wind Distribution

IMPORTANT: Beta version feature! Swell heights are open water values from NWW3. There is no attempt to model near-shore effects. Coastal wave heights will generally be less, especially if the break does not have unobstructed exposure to the open ocean.

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Also see Rye Ocean Beach surf quality by season and Rye Ocean Beach surf quality by month.

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Use this relief map to navigate to Victoria - Mornington Peninsula surf breaks and tide stations that are in the area of Rye Ocean Beach

Other Nearby Surf Breaks closest to Rye Ocean Beach:   (click location name for more details)
Closest break	Allisons	1 mi
Second closest break	Pearses Beach	2 mi
Third closest break	St Andrews Beach	3 mi
Fourth closest break	Gunnamatta Beach	7 mi
Fifth closest break	Portsea Back Beach	7 mi
Wave buoys nearest to Rye Ocean Beach:
Closest wave buoy	W Hawaii Buoy	5341 mi
Second closest wave buoy	SW Hawaii Buoy	5367 mi
Third closest wave buoy	NW Hawaii Buoy	5503 mi
Fourth closest wave buoy	NW Hawaii Buoy	5559 mi
Fifth closest wave buoy	N Hawaii 1 Buoy	5875 mi
Tide stations nearest to Rye Ocean Beach:
Closest tide station	Port Phillip Heads, Australia	11 mi
Second closest tide station	Stony Point, Australia	24 mi
Third closest tide station	Geelong, Australia	28 mi
Fourth closest tide station	Melbourne, Australia	36 mi
Fifth closest tide station	Loutit Bay, Australia	45 mi
Ski Resorts closest to Rye Ocean Beach:
Closest ski area	Mt Donna Buang (Australia)	67 mi
Second closest ski area	Lake Mountain (Australia)	86 mi
Third closest ski area	Mount Baw Baw (Australia)	89 mi
Fourth closest ski area	Mt St Gwinear (Australia)	92 mi
Fifth closest ski area	Mount Buller (Australia)	125 mi
Town and city forecasts close to Rye Ocean Beach:
Closest city location	Blairgowrie (Australia)	2 mi
Second closest city location	Sorrento (Australia)	6 mi
Third closest city location	Queenscliff (Australia)	11 mi
Fourth closest city location	Mornington (Australia)	18 mi
Fifth closest city location	Clifton Springs (Australia)	20 mi

• The closest passenger airport to Rye Ocean Beach is Avalon Airport (AVV) in Australia, 47 km (29 miles) away (directly).
• The second nearest airport to Rye Ocean Beach is Melbourne Moorabbin Airport (MBW), also in Australia, 54 km (34 miles) away.
• Third is Melbourne Essendon Airport (MEB) in Australia, 74 km (46 miles) away.
• Melbourne International Airport (MEL) in Australia is 80 km (50 miles) away.
• Albury Airport (ABX), also in Australia is the fifth nearest airport to Rye Ocean Beach and is 322 km (200 miles) away.