Lakes Entrance Surf Forecast and Surf Reports

(East Coast of Victoria, Australia)

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Lakes Entrance Surf Guide

Lakes Entrance in East Coast of Victoria is an exposed sandbar break that usually has waves. Summer offers the optimum conditions for surfing. Offshore winds blow from the northwest and there is no shelter here from cross shore breezes. Waves just as likely from local windswells as from distant groundswells and the ideal swell angle is from the south southeast. The sandbar break offers both left and right hand waves. Rarely crowded here. Surfing here means negotiating dangerous rips.

Lakes Entrance Spot Info

Type:	Rating:	Reliability:	Todays Sea Temp*:
Sandbar	2	consistent	17.0°C*ocean temperature recorded from satellite

Surfing Lakes Entrance:

The best conditions reported for surf at Lakes Entrance occur when a South-southeast swell combines with an offshore wind direction from the Northwest.

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Explore Lakes Entrance Location Map

Interactive Lakes Entrance surf break location map. View information about nearby surf breaks, their wave consistency and rating compared to other spots in the region. Current swell conditions from local buoys are shown along with live wind speed and direction from nearby weather stations. Click icons on the map for more detail.

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Please note that some surf spot locations are approximate to protect their exact location while others are not shown at close zoom level.

Lakes Entrance Surf Forecasts:

Hourly Forecast

16 Day Forecast

Todays Surf Summary
Thursday, 7 May 2026, 18:37 Local Time

m, °C	Thu		Fri
ft, °F	7PM	10PM	1AM	4AM
Wave (m)	SW	SSW	WSW	SW
Period (s)	7	7	7	8
Wind (km/h)
Wind State	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off

Tides at Lakes Entrance

Current tide and informaton

For Lakes Entrance, Australia, 3 km from Lakes Entrance.

Next High Water: 11:49pm | 0.94m

Next Low Water: 07:37am | 0.33m

NEXT	IS AT (local time)	remaining
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Lakes Entrance Sea Temperature

The water temperature (17.0 °C) at Lakes Entrance is quite warm but you will need at least quality spring wetsuit, and maybe neoprene hood because it will be cloudy with an effective air temperature of just (7.0 °C). No need for neoprene boots or gloves.

Today, many surfers would wear a spring wetsuit and a neoprene hood.