Horseshoe Surf Forecast

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

USA (1297 breaks)

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Horseshoe surfForecast / CAL – San Diego County / USA

48hr Weather and Surf, issued 4 am Friday 29 Aug 2025 PDT

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

Today's Horseshoe sea temperature is 23.2° C
(Which is 3.1°C warmer than normal for this time of year)

How big are the waves at Horseshoe today?

The current surf forecast for Horseshoe at 7AM is: 0.5m 18s primary swell from a Southwest direction and 0.7m 9s secondary swell from a South direction, 0.3m 4s secondary swell from a West-northwest direction (forecast issued at 04:00am August 29). The wind direction is predicted to be cross-shore.

Time (PDT) & Date	Wave Height	Wave Period
Morning (29 Aug)	1.5ft (0.5m)	18s
Afternoon (29 Aug)	1.5ft (0.5m)	17s
Evening (29 Aug)	2.5ft (0.7m)	16s

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

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	Friday 29								Saturday 30								Sunday 31
	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)	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	0	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	2
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Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	S	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW
Period(s) (?)	9	18	18	18	18	17	16	16	16	16	16	19	19	19	18	18	18	17	17	17	16	16	16	16
Wave Graph (?)
Energy (?)	351	333	303	295	209	203	327	414	216	223	323	582	599	569	620	700	868	753	605	621	688	699	690	689
Wind (km/h)	NNW	NNW	NNW	WNW	WNW	WNW	NW	NW	NW	NW	NW	WNW	WNW	WNW	NW	NW	WNW	NW	NW	WNW	WNW	WNW	NW	NW
Wind State (?) onshore cross-onshore cross-shore cross-offshore offshore glassy	cross- on	cross- on	cross	on	on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	on	on	on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	on	on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on
High Tide / height (m)	1:24AM 0.95				1:06PM 1.43					4:21AM 0.83			1:58PM 1.39									3:28PM 1.37
Low Tide / height (m)			6:05AM 0.72					9:05PM 0.52		5:00AM 0.83							11:05PM 0.45

	Friday 29								Saturday 30								Sunday 31
Sunrise	-	-	6:20	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:22	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:22	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	7:17	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:15	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:15	-	-

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

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Recent Eyeball Surf Reports for CAL - San Diego County

Wind Update Continuing clean conditions at Horseshoe (calm at La Jolla- CA 4 km from Horseshoe). 0.4m 14s groundswell from the S with a 0.3m 3s local chop from the WNW and a 0.2m 18s long period groundswell from the SSW. 3 swells combining to make bigger set waves.
1 hour 38 minutes ago Horseshoe

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1 h 38 min ago

4 km/h

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Clean

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