Cowells Cove Surf Forecast

/ CAL – Santa Cruz (30 breaks) / California (404 breaks) /

USA (1297 breaks) / Lat Long: (36.96° N 122.03° W)

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Cowells Cove surfForecast / CAL – Santa Cruz / USA

48hr Weather and Surf, issued 4 am Wednesday 15 Oct 2025 PDT

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

Today's Cowells Cove sea temperature is 16.4° C
(Which is 1.9°C warmer than normal for this time of year)

How big are the waves at Cowells Cove today?

The current surf forecast for Cowells Cove at 7AM is: 0.5m 14s primary swell from a South-southwest direction (forecast issued at 04:00am October 15). An open ocean swell of 0.9m 10s is not directed at the surf break, a second open ocean swell of 0.6m 16s is not directed at the surf break. The wind direction is predicted to be glassy.

Time (PDT) & Date	Wave Height	Wave Period
Morning (15 Oct)	1.5ft (0.5m)	14s
Afternoon (15 Oct)	1.5ft (0.5m)	14s
Evening (15 Oct)	1.5ft (0.4m)	13s

Table - waves today at Cowells Cove. (Swell directed towards the surf break)

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	Wednesday 15								Thursday 16								Friday 17
	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	8 AM	11 AM	2 PM	5 PM	8 PM	11 PM
Rating (10 max)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Swell Height Map See all maps
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	S	SSW	WNW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SW	SW	SW	SSW	WNW	WNW	WNW
Period(s) (?)	13	13	14	14	14	14	13	14	13	13	13	13	18	13	13	12	12	16	16	16	17	14	13	13
Wave Graph (?)
kJ (?)	69	69	105	110	108	93	59	0	55	55	56	57	57	56	55	31	29	67	94	133	111	0	0	0
Wind (km/h)	SSE	SE	ENE	SE	WSW	WNW	N	NNE	NNE	NNE	NNE	W	W	WNW	NNE	NE	NE	NNE	NE	ENE	W	W	N	E
Wind State (?) onshore cross-onshore cross-shore cross-offshore offshore glassy	glass	cross- on	glass	glass	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross	cross	cross	cross	glass	cross- off	off	cross	cross	cross	cross	cross- on	glass	cross- off	cross- off	glass	cross- on
High Tide / height (m)				8:07AM 1.42			6:29PM 1.44					8:42AM 1.47			7:43PM 1.40					9:13AM 1.50				8:47PM 1.36
Low Tide / height (m)	12:31AM 0.02				1:09PM 0.83				1:27AM 0.05					2:05PM 0.63				2:13AM 0.10				2:52PM 0.44

	Wednesday 15								Thursday 16								Friday 17
Sunrise	-	-	7:15	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:16	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:16	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	6:30	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:30	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:29	-	-

Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	13	13	12	15	16	18	15	14	13	12	12	16	18	18	15	14	14	14	14	19	22	21	19	17
Feels °C (?)	12	11	11	14	14	16	13	13	12	11	11	16	16	16	14	13	12	12	12	18	20	19	18	16

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Recent Eyeball Surf Reports for CAL - Santa Cruz

Wind Update Continuing clean conditions at Cowells Cove (calm at Santa Cruz 2 km from Cowells Cove). 0.5m 15s groundswell from the WSW to make surfable waves.
1 hour 48 minutes ago Cowells Cove

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1 h 48 min ago

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