Imperial Beach Surf Forecast

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

USA (1297 breaks) / Lat Long: (32.59° N 117.13° W)

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Imperial Beach surfForecast / CAL – San Diego County / USA

48hr Weather and Surf, issued 10 am Wednesday 08 Oct 2025 PDT

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

Today's Imperial Beach sea temperature is 18.1° C
(Which is 1.4°C colder than average for this time of year)

How big are the waves at Imperial Beach today?

The current surf forecast for Imperial Beach at 1PM is: 0.5m 15s primary swell from a South direction and 0.5m 11s secondary swell from a South direction, 0.3m 4s secondary swell from a West-northwest direction (forecast issued at 10:00am October 08). The wind direction is predicted to be cross-onshore.

Time (PDT) & Date	Wave Height	Wave Period
Morning (08 Oct)	1.5ft (0.5m)	14s
Afternoon (08 Oct)	1.5ft (0.5m)	15s
Evening (08 Oct)	2ft (0.6m)	15s

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

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	Wednesday 08						Thursday 09								Friday 10								Sat 11
	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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
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Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	S	SW	S	SSW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	S	SW	SW	SSE	SSE	SSE	SSE	SSE	SSE	SSE	SSE	SW	SW
Period(s) (?)	12	14	15	15	14	16	16	16	16	16	16	14	16	16	13	13	12	12	12	11	11	11	15	15
Wave Graph (?)
kJ (?)	101	130	109	71	130	89	125	66	91	91	91	106	161	157	181	212	198	189	179	213	205	202	156	144
Wind (km/h)	NW	NW	WNW	NW	NW	NNW	NNW	NNW	NNW	NNW	NW	NW	NNW	NW	NNW	NNW	NNW	WNW	NW	NW	NW	NW	NW	WNW
Wind State (?) onshore cross-onshore cross-shore cross-offshore offshore glassy	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross	cross- on	cross	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	on
High Tide / height (m)		10:06AM 1.98					11:05PM 1.37			10:42AM 1.99					12:04AM 1.20				11:23AM 1.92				1:19AM 1.05
Low Tide / height (m)				4:51PM -0.16				4:21AM 0.46					5:45PM -0.15			4:53AM 0.62					6:46PM -0.07

	Wednesday 08						Thursday 09								Friday 10								Sat 11
Sunrise	6:47	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:47	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:48	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	6:23	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:22	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:22	-	-	-	-

Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	17	19	20	20	19	18	18	18	18	21	22	22	21	20	20	20	21	22	23	22	21	21	21	20
Feels °C (?)	17	19	19	19	18	17	17	17	17	20	20	20	20	18	19	19	20	21	22	21	20	21	21	20

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Recent Eyeball Surf Reports for CAL - San Diego County

Wind Update Continuing clean conditions at Imperial Beach (calm at BUOY-TIXC1 1 km from Imperial Beach). 0.4m 11s groundswell from the SSW with a 0.3m 15s groundswell, also from the SSW and a 0.2m 3s local chop, also from the WNW. 3 swells combining to make bigger set waves.
1 hour 52 minutes ago Imperial Beach

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