Garbage Surf Forecast

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

USA (1297 breaks)

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Garbage surfForecast / CAL – San Diego County / USA

48hr Weather and Surf, issued 4 am Thursday 18 Sep 2025 PDT

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

Today's Garbage sea temperature is 20.9° C
(Which is 1.1°C warmer than normal for this time of year)

How big are the waves at Garbage today?

The current surf forecast for Garbage at 6AM is: 0.8m 14s primary swell from a South-southwest direction and 0.5m 14s secondary swell from a Southwest direction, 0.5m 4s secondary swell from a West-northwest direction (forecast issued at 04:00am September 18). The wind direction is predicted to be cross-onshore.

Time (PDT) & Date	Wave Height	Wave Period
Morning (18 Sep)	2.5ft (0.8m)	14s
Afternoon (18 Sep)	2.5ft (0.8m)	14s
Evening (18 Sep)	2.5ft (0.8m)	14s

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

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	Thursday 18								Friday 19								Saturday 20
	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	1	1	0	1	1	1	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
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Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SW	SW	SW	S	S	SW	S	S	S	SSW	SSW
Period(s) (?)	15	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	13	14	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13
Wave Graph (?)
kJ (?)	242	236	233	264	264	261	243	145	145	141	143	141	225	109	109	108	86	84	87	87	84	84	92	92
Wind (km/h)	WNW	NNW	NNW	SW	W	WNW	NW	WNW	NW	NW	WNW	W	W	WNW	NW	NW	NW	NW	NW	WNW	WNW	WNW	NW	NW
Wind State (?) onshore cross-onshore cross-shore cross-offshore offshore glassy	cross- on	cross- on	cross	cross- on	on	on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	glass	cross- on	on	on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	on	on	cross- on	cross- on
High Tide / height (m)				8:23AM 1.46			7:47PM 1.84					8:48AM 1.55				8:27PM 1.83				9:12AM 1.62				9:03PM 1.77
Low Tide / height (m)		2:08AM -0.10			1:56PM 0.54					2:40AM -0.08				2:34PM 0.41				3:07AM -0.02				3:10PM 0.31

	Thursday 18								Friday 19								Saturday 20
Sunrise	-	-	6:33	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:35	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:35	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	6:51	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:50	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:47	-	-

Rain (mm)	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	21	21	21	23	22	22	21	21	21	21	21	22	21	21	21	21	20	20	20	22	21	21	20	20
Feels °C (?)	21	22	23	24	22	24	23	23	23	24	23	23	21	21	22	23	21	21	21	23	21	21	21	20

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Recent Eyeball Surf Reports for CAL - San Diego County

Wind Update Cross-off wind 4 km from Garbage has become light (calm at North Island Naval Air Station Airport). Waves should be turning clean at Garbage. 0.7m 14s groundswell from the SSW with a 0.6m 3s local chop from the NW and a 0.3m 8s swell from the S as well as a 0.2m 11s groundswell from the SSW. 4 swells combining to make bigger set waves.
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