Cardiff Reef Surf Forecast

/ CAL – San Diego County (71 breaks) / California (404 breaks) /

USA (1297 breaks)

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Cardiff Reef surfForecast / CAL – San Diego County / USA

48hr Weather and Surf, issued 10 am Thursday 18 Sep 2025 PDT

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Cardiff Reef surf forecast is for near shore open water. Breaking waves will often be smaller at less exposed spots.

Today's Cardiff Reef sea temperature is 21.8° C
(Which is 2.1°C warmer than normal for this time of year)

How big are the waves at Cardiff Reef today?

The current surf forecast for Cardiff Reef at 12PM is: 0.8m 14s primary swell from a South-southwest direction and 0.4m 14s secondary swell from a Southwest direction (forecast issued at 10:00am September 18). The wind direction is predicted to be onshore.

Time (PDT) & Date	Wave Height	Wave Period
Morning (18 Sep)	1.5ft (0.4m)	14s
Afternoon (18 Sep)	3ft (0.9m)	14s
Evening (18 Sep)	2.5ft (0.7m)	14s

Table - waves today at Cardiff Reef. (Swell directed towards the surf break)

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	Thursday 18						Friday 19								Saturday 20								Sun 21
	8 AM	11 AM	2 PM	5 PM	8 PM	11 PM	2 AM	5 AM	8 AM	11 AM	2 PM	5 PM	8 PM	11 PM	2 AM	5 AM	8 AM	11 AM	2 PM	5 PM	8 PM	11 PM	2 AM	5 AM
Rating (10 max)	1	1	0	0	1	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
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Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	SW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SW	SSW	SW	SW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SSW	SW	SSW	SW	SW	SW	SW
Period(s) (?)	14	14	14	14	14	14	13	14	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	12	13	15	15	15	15
Wave Graph (?)
kJ (?)	74	273	366	341	207	195	62	192	88	63	236	236	116	85	84	60	82	168	39	165	60	78	57	77
Wind (km/h)	N	SW	W	WNW	NW	NW	NNW	NW	NW	W	W	WNW	WNW	NW	NW	NW	NW	WNW	W	WNW	WNW	NNW	WNW	NNW
Wind State (?) onshore cross-onshore cross-shore cross-offshore offshore glassy	glass	cross- on	on	on	cross- on	cross- on	glass	glass	cross- on	on	on	on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	on	on	on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on
High Tide / height (m)		8:29AM 1.77			7:45PM 2.14					8:53AM 1.85				8:26PM 2.12				9:15AM 1.92				9:03PM 2.07
Low Tide / height (m)			1:47PM 0.93					2:31AM 0.25				2:26PM 0.79				2:59AM 0.31				3:02PM 0.67				3:24AM 0.40

	Thursday 18						Friday 19								Saturday 20								Sun 21
Sunrise	6:33	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:35	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:35	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	6:51	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:50	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:49	-	-	-	-

Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	22	24	24	24	22	22	21	21	22	23	23	23	21	21	21	21	21	23	23	22	21	20	20	20
Feels °C (?)	25	26	25	25	24	24	23	24	24	24	23	24	23	23	23	23	23	24	23	22	23	21	22	22

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Recent Eyeball Surf Reports for CAL - San Diego County

Wind Update Continuing clean conditions at Cardiff Reef (light winds from the WSW at Carlsbad Airport 9 km from Cardiff Reef). 0.3m 5s windswell from the WNW to make surfable waves.
1 hour 46 minutes ago Cardiff Reef

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1 h 46 min ago

7 km/h

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