Shark Pit Surf Forecast and Surf Reports

(California – Marin County, USA)

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Type: beach

Reliability: fairly consistent

Best: Swell W | Wind ESE

Sea Temperature Today is: 10.8 °C

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Sunday, 19 May 2013, 05:17 Local time

m, °C	Saturday 18
ft, °F	2AM	5AM	8AM	11AM
Wave (m)	WNW	WNW	WNW	WNW
Period (s)	10	10	10	10
Wind (km/h)
Wind State	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	on

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Shark Pit_1 in SF Marin is an exposed beach break that has reasonably consistent surf The best wind direction is from the east southeast with some shelter here from north winds. Groundswells more frequent than windswells and the best swell direction is from the west. The beach breaks offer left-handers. Good surf at all stages of the tide. Sometimes crowded. Watch out for sharks, rips and rocks.

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Forecast Wave Energy (Power): 12hrs

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For Tomales Bay Entrance, California, 1 miles from Shark Pit.

NEXT	IS AT (local time)	REMAINING
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Shark Pit Tide Times and Tide Chart

Live Weather:

At BUOY-PRYC1, 27 km from Shark Pit.

fresh winds from the WNW

km/h

Air temperature
10.9 °C

Current weather near Shark Pit

Buoy Data:

At Bodega Bay Buoy, 17 miles from Shark Pit.

	11PM	12AM	1AM	2AM
Data Age	4 hr	3 hr	2 hr	1 hr
Wave height (m)
Dominant period (s)	6	7	7	7

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Overall Shark Pit Surf Consistency and Wind Distribution in May

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Visitor Reviews of Shark Pit

numskulls from UNITED STATES writes:

This place sucks every time I go there , it is on shore buoy and Gerry & Larry and my other brother Long Board Larry are out in powder puff mush buckets mate; with no juice to save your life to get to shore very quickly indeed of perhaps in need to get to shore from the 20 footer or perhaps the larger one right off of Bird rock and Pierce pt that my friend had seen fishing with his dad last sunday !

2011-12-01

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Other Nearby Surf Breaks closest to Shark Pit: (click location name for more details)
Closest break	Dillon Beach	1 mi
Second closest break	Doran Beach	6 mi
Third closest break	Salmon Creek	9 mi
Fourth closest break	Point Reyes Beach	12 mi
Fifth closest break	Drakes Estero	14 mi
Wave buoys nearest to Shark Pit:
Closest wave buoy	Bodega Bay Buoy	17 mi
Second closest wave buoy	San Francisco Buoy	34 mi
Third closest wave buoy	Half Moon Bay Buoy	61 mi
Fourth closest wave buoy	PT Arena Buoy	85 mi
Fifth closest wave buoy	Monterey Buoy	105 mi
Tide stations nearest to Shark Pit:
Closest tide station	Tomales Bay Entrance	1 mi
Second closest tide station	Blakes Landing, Tomales Bay	5 mi
Third closest tide station	Bodega Harbor entrance	6 mi
Fourth closest tide station	Marshall, Tomales Bay	7 mi
Fifth closest tide station	Reynolds, Tomales Bay	8 mi
Ski Resorts closest to Shark Pit:
Closest ski area	Royal Gorge (United States)	157 mi
Second closest ski area	Soda Springs (United States)	158 mi
Third closest ski area	Sierra at Tahoe (United States)	159 mi
Fourth closest ski area	Bear Valley (United States)	160 mi
Fifth closest ski area	Boreal Mountain (United States)	160 mi
Town and city forecasts close to Shark Pit:
Closest city location	Rohnert Park (United States)	16 mi
Second closest city location	Petaluma (United States)	19 mi
Third closest city location	Santa Rosa (United States)	19 mi
Fourth closest city location	Windsor (United States)	23 mi
Fifth closest city location	Novato (United States)	24 mi

The closest passenger airport to Shark Pit_1 is San Francisco International Airport (SFO) in USA, 87 km (54 miles) away (directly).
The second nearest airport to Shark Pit_1 is Metropolitan Oakland International Airport (OAK), also in USA, 88 km (55 miles) away.
Third is Travis Afb (Fairfield) Airport (SUU) in USA, 92 km (57 miles) away.
Moffett Federal Afld (Mountain View) Airport (NUQ) in USA is 123 km (76 miles) away.
Sacramento International Airport (SMF), also in USA is the fifth nearest airport to Shark Pit_1 and is 131 km (81 miles) away.

Shark Pit break location map and break info

This is the Surf-Forecast page for Shark Pit, CAL - SF Marin County. Use the tab navigation above to view Shark Pit sea temperature, Shark Pit photographs, Shark Pit detailed swell predictions, wind and weather forecasts, Shark Pit webcams, current wind from CAL - SF Marin County live weather stations and Shark Pit tide predictions. The United States swell maps link will open up the big picture showing United States and the surrounding seas. These swell maps can be animated to show the different swell components, wave energy, wave period, wave heights, together with wind and weather forecasts, current weather and sea state observations from United States wave-buoys, passing ships and coastal weather stations. Each of the forecast pages for this surf break feature a global and regional wavefinder tool to locate the best surf conditions in the area around Shark Pit.

Shark Pit Surf Forecast and Surf Reports

(California – Marin County, USA)

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Overall Shark Pit Surf Consistency and Wind Distribution in May

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