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Seal Beach Pier in Orange County is a sheltered beach break that has reasonably consistent surf and can work at any time of the year. The best wind direction is from the northeast. Tends to receive distant groundswells and the best swell direction is from the southwest. Waves at the beach are both lefts and rights. Surfable at all stages of the tide. It very rarely gets crowded here. Watch out for locals, pollution, rips.

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Overall Seal Beach Pier 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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Use this relief map to navigate to United-States - Orange County surf breaks and tide stations that are in the area of Seal Beach Pier

Other Nearby Surf Breaks closest to Seal Beach Pier:   (click location name for more details)
Closest break	Anderson Street	0 mi
Second closest break	Dolphin Street	0 mi
Third closest break	13th Street	0 mi
Fourth closest break	San Gabriel Rivermouth	1 mi
Fifth closest break	Seventh Street	1 mi
Wave buoys nearest to Seal Beach Pier:
Closest wave buoy	Santa Monica Basin Buoy	56 mi
Second closest wave buoy	San Clemente Basin Buoy	85 mi
Third closest wave buoy	East Santa Barbara Buoy	107 mi
Fourth closest wave buoy	South Santa Rosa Island Buoy	122 mi
Fifth closest wave buoy	Tanner Banks Buoy	122 mi
Tide stations nearest to Seal Beach Pier:
Closest tide station	Los Patos (highway bridge), California	2 mi
Second closest tide station	Long Beach, Outer Harbor, Pier A, California	7 mi
Third closest tide station	Long Beach, Inner Harbor, California	8 mi
Fourth closest tide station	Long Beach, Terminal Island, California	8 mi
Fifth closest tide station	Long Beach, Terminal Island, California (sub)	9 mi
Ski Resorts closest to Seal Beach Pier:
Closest ski area	Mt Baldy (United States)	40 mi
Second closest ski area	Mountain High resort (United States)	50 mi
Third closest ski area	Sunrise Ski Area (United States)	51 mi
Fourth closest ski area	Snow Valley (United States)	69 mi
Fifth closest ski area	Snow Summit (United States)	77 mi
Town and city forecasts close to Seal Beach Pier:
Closest city location	Seal Beach (United States)	2 mi
Second closest city location	Rossmoor (United States)	4 mi
Third closest city location	Westminster (United States)	5 mi
Fourth closest city location	Los Alamitos (United States)	6 mi
Fifth closest city location	Cypress (United States)	7 mi

• The closest passenger airport to Seal Beach Pier is Long Beach Airport (LGB) in USA, 12 km (7 miles) away (directly).
• The second nearest airport to Seal Beach Pier is John Wayne Arpt Orange Co (Santa Ana) Airport (SNA), also in USA, 21 km (13 miles) away.
• Third is Tustin Mcaf Airport (NTK) in USA, 24 km (15 miles) away.
• Jack Northrop Fld Hawthorne Muni Airport (HHR) in USA is 32 km (20 miles) away.
• Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), also in USA is the fifth nearest airport to Seal Beach Pier and is 38 km (24 miles) away.