California Surf

Detailed California surf forecast maps and the latest eyeball surf report from local surfers in the region. Near-shore swell is shown on the map together with the surf forecast rating for spots in California. Find the best places to surf in offshore conditions by selecting the wind option on the forecast map. Windsurfers and kite surfers can also use this option to find more favorable cross-shore conditions in California. Our local Wavefinder indicates where some of the best conditions are likely to be found in California over the next 7 days. Surf photos from California and reviews of the best spots and surfing conditions have been provided by local surfers.

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California Wavefinder

Long range 3-hourly Hourly

	Fri		Saturday 11			Sunday 12			Monday 13			Tuesday 14			Wednesday 15			Thursday 16			Fri
	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM
Best forecast wave conditions in California	Steamer Lane-The Point CAL - Santa Cruz	Black Point Beach CAL - Sonoma	Black Point Beach CAL - Sonoma	Black Point Beach CAL - Sonoma	San Carpoforo Creek CAL - San Luis Obispo	Cape Sebastian Oregon South	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Steamer Lane-The Point CAL - Santa Cruz	Cape Sebastian Oregon South	Cayucos Pier CAL - San Luis Obispo	The Patch CAL - Marin County	Calafia Baja Norte	Avila Beach CAL - San Luis Obispo	Steamer Lane-The Point CAL - Santa Cruz	Beer Can Beach CAL - Santa Cruz	Brookings/South Jetty Oregon South	Arroyo Laguna CAL - San Luis Obispo	Fullers CAL - Monterey	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Cojo CAL - Santa Barbara	Santa Cruz - 26th CAL - Santa Cruz	Steamer Lane-The Point CAL - Santa Cruz
Rating	3	3	3	4	4	3	4	3	3	4	3	2	3	2	1	4	4	3	4	4	2	3
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.8 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	1.0 SSW	0.7 SW	2.5 W	1.8 W	1.5 WNW	1.5 WNW	1.6 WNW	0.6 SSW	1.9 WNW	1.1 NW	0.5 SSW	2.3 NW	0.7 SSW	1.6 NW	2.3 NW	2.2 NW	1.5 WNW	1.5 WNW
Period(s) (?)	15	16	16	16	16	16	10	10	8	10	6	16	6	7	14	10	15	9	10	9	10	10
Energy(?)	383	607	573	593	680	434	1706	858	474	684	395	289	599	297	118	1269	384	592	1162	1077	572	518
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	on	off	off	cross- off	cross- on	cross- off	on	cross- off	cross- off	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	glass	cross- off	off	cross- on	cross- on
High Tide / height (m)		8:29PM 1.26	7:00AM 1.74	7:23PM 1.59	8:40PM 1.16	5:51AM 1.74			9:06AM 1.68			7:29AM 1.40								10:25PM 1.61
Low Tide / height (m)		1:15AM 1.10			1:37AM 0.77	12:50PM 0.47						1:53PM 0.00							5:51PM 0.21	4:50AM -0.24
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	risk thund- der	rain shwrs	light rain	heavy rain	rain shwrs	mod. rain	rain shwrs	some clouds	rain shwrs	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	1	2	2	13	12	7	1	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	16	13	13	12	14	10	13	12	10	16	11	17	15	12	14	10	14	17	17	14	16	17
Low °C	15	12	12	9	11	9	13	9	9	16	9	15	14	8	9	10	11	12	16	12	12	17
Chill °C (?)	15	13	11	9	12	8	12	11	8	15	8	16	13	10	14	7	12	17	16	12	16	17
Sunrise	-	-	6:43	-	-	6:41	-	-	6:39	-	-	6:20	-	-	6:33	-	-	6:31	-	-	6:31	-
Sunset	7:37	-	-	7:46	-	-	7:37	-	-	7:34	-	-	7:34	-	-	7:58	-	-	7:42	-	-	7:44
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.8 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	1.4 SW	1.4 WSW	1.0 SW	2.5 W	1.8 W	1.5 WNW	0.7 SSW	0.5 SW	0.9 WNW	0.7 SSW	0.4 SSW	0.5 SSW	0.5 SSW	0.7 SSW	1.6 NW	0.5 SSW	0.5 S	1.5 WNW	0.4 SSW
Period (s)	15	16	16	6	7	7	10	10	8	14	14	9	16	13	14	14	15	9	14	17	10	14
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.5 W	0.7 WNW	0.7 WNW	0.9 SSW	1.0 SSW	0.7 SW	0.7 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.4 SW	0.4 SW	0.6 SSW	0.5 SSW	0.4 SSW	0.4 NW	0.5 WNW	0.4 NW	0.5 SSW	0.3 S	0.5 SSW	0.4 SSW	0.3 SSW
Period (s)	7	12	12	16	16	16	14	15	14	18	18	13	13	16	12	12	12	14	18	13	13	16
Wind waves (m) & direction	0.6 S	-	0.8 SW	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.5 WNW	1.6 WNW	-	1.9 WNW	1.1 NW	1.0 WNW	2.3 NW	1.3 WNW	-	2.3 NW	2.2 NW	-	1.5 WNW
Period (s)	4	-	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	10	6	-	6	7	7	10	7	-	10	9	-	10

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	2PM	5PM	8PM	11PM	2AM	5AM	8AM	11AM	2PM	5PM	8PM	11PM	2AM	5AM	8AM	11AM	2PM	5PM	8PM	11PM	2AM	5AM
Best forecast wave conditions in California	Black Point Beach CAL - Sonoma	Centreville Beach CAL - Humboldt	Bunkers CAL - Humboldt	Alfonsos Baja Norte	Steamer Lane-The Point CAL - Santa Cruz	Alfonsos Baja Norte	Alisitos Baja Norte	Black Point Beach CAL - Sonoma	Brookings/South Jetty Oregon South	Black Point Beach CAL - Sonoma	Alisitos Baja Norte	San Onofre CAL - Orange County	Black Point Beach CAL - Sonoma	Black Point Beach CAL - Sonoma	Fullers CAL - Monterey	San Carpoforo Creek CAL - San Luis Obispo	Cape Sebastian Oregon South	Cape Sebastian Oregon South	Bolinas Jetty CAL - Marin County	Steamer Lane-The Point CAL - Santa Cruz	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Jalama CAL - Santa Barbara
Rating	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	4	4	4	2	3	4	4	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.8 SSW	0.8 SW	0.7 SW	1.0 SW	0.9 SSW	1.0 SW	1.0 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	1.0 SSW	1.0 SSW	2.1 SW	2.1 SW	2.1 W	2.3 W	0.7 SW	0.7 SW	2.3 W	2.0 W	2.2 WNW	2.0 WNW
Period(s) (?)	16	16	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	8	8	9	10	16	16	10	10	10	10
Energy(?)	529	571	515	580	571	569	545	573	580	593	568	510	1217	1007	1073	1382	451	522	1412	1008	1221	1122
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	glass	glass	glass	off	off	cross- off	glass	glass	glass	off	glass	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	cross- off
Tide State(?)	low	mid-flow	mid-flow	mid-ebb	low	high	mid-ebb	mid-ebb	mid-ebb	flow	flow	mid-ebb	flow	flow	flow	flow	flow	flow	mid-flow	high	flow	flow
High Tide / height (m)						4:47AM 1.67														8:51PM 1.21
Low Tide / height (m)	12:50PM 0.61				12:51AM 0.94
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	rain shwrs	light rain	rain shwrs	clear	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	clear	light rain	heavy rain	heavy rain	clear	clear	light rain	some clouds	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	light rain	cloudy	clear	clear	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	1	1	1	-	1	1	-	1	14	12	-	-	3	-	2	1	1	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	14	14	13	17	13	17	17	13	10	9	17	16	8	8	11	12	10	10	11	11	11	11
Chill °C (?)	13	13	13	17	13	17	17	11	10	7	17	16	8	6	11	12	9	9	9	11	11	10
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:22	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:37	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	7:51	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:46	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:54	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.8 SSW	1.0 NNW	0.9 NNW	1.0 SW	0.9 SSW	1.0 SW	1.0 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	1.4 SW	1.0 SSW	1.0 SSW	1.7 SW	2.1 SW	2.1 W	2.3 W	1.0 SW	1.0 W	0.7 SW	2.0 W	2.2 WNW	2.0 WNW
Period (s)	16	8	8	16	16	16	16	16	16	6	16	16	7	8	9	10	8	10	15	10	10	10
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.7 WNW	0.9 WNW	0.7 SW	0.4 WNW	0.8 WSW	0.4 S	0.4 WNW	0.7 WNW	0.8 WNW	0.9 SSW	0.5 WNW	0.4 W	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.7 SW	0.8 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW
Period (s)	13	13	15	8	7	12	8	12	11	16	7	7	16	16	15	15	16	7	15	15	15	15
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.8 SW	-	-	-	-	2.1 SW	-	-	-	-	-	2.3 W	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	-	-	-	-	8	-	-	-	-	-	10	-	-	-

	Friday 10												Saturday 11
	12PM	1PM	2PM	3PM	4PM	5PM	6PM	7PM	8PM	9PM	10PM	11PM	0AM	1AM	2AM	3AM	4AM	5AM	6AM	7AM	8AM	9AM
Best forecast wave conditions in California	Black Point Beach CAL - Sonoma	Centreville Beach CAL - Humboldt	Bunkers CAL - Humboldt	Alfonsos Baja Norte	Steamer Lane-The Point CAL - Santa Cruz	Alfonsos Baja Norte	Alisitos Baja Norte	Black Point Beach CAL - Sonoma	Brookings/South Jetty Oregon South	Black Point Beach CAL - Sonoma	Alisitos Baja Norte	San Onofre CAL - Orange County	Black Point Beach CAL - Sonoma	Black Point Beach CAL - Sonoma	Fullers CAL - Monterey	San Carpoforo Creek CAL - San Luis Obispo	Cape Sebastian Oregon South	Cape Sebastian Oregon South	Bolinas Jetty CAL - Marin County	Steamer Lane-The Point CAL - Santa Cruz	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Jalama CAL - Santa Barbara
Rating	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	4	4	4	2	3	4	4	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.8 SSW	0.9 SW	0.8 SSW	1.0 SW	0.8 SSW	1.0 SW	1.0 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.9 SSW	1.1 SSW	1.0 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	1.0 SSW	1.1 SSW	0.8 SW	0.8 SW	0.9 SW	1.0 SSW	1.0 SSW	1.0 SSW
Period(s) (?)	17	17	17	15	15	16	16	15	16	15	16	16	15	16	16	16	15	15	16	16	16	16
Energy(?)	529	707	790	501	397	523	606	471	577	531	721	571	538	596	785	845	492	478	513	651	700	748
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross	cross- on	on	on	on	cross- on	cross- off	cross- on	glass	glass	on	off	off	cross- on	glass	cross- on	cross- on	on	cross	cross	cross
High Tide / height (m)										8:31PM 1.69
Low Tide / height (m)			1:24PM 0.25											12:49AM 1.50
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	cloudy	clear	clear	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	light rain	light rain	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	2	-	-	-	-
High °C	14	13	13	19	16	18	18	14	12	12	17	17	12	12	13	13	11	11	13	12	14	14
Chill °C (?)	13	12	13	19	15	18	18	14	11	12	17	17	12	11	13	13	9	9	12	11	12	13
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:39	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:46	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.8 SSW	1.0 NNW	1.0 NNW	1.0 SW	0.8 SSW	1.0 SW	1.0 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.9 NW	0.9 SSW	1.1 SSW	1.0 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	1.0 SSW	1.1 SSW	0.8 SW	0.8 SW	0.9 SW	1.0 SSW	1.0 SSW	1.0 SSW
Period (s)	17	8	8	15	15	16	16	15	8	15	16	16	15	16	16	16	15	15	16	16	16	16
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.7 WSW	0.9 WNW	0.9 WNW	0.4 WNW	0.5 W	0.4 WNW	0.4 WNW	0.7 WNW	0.8 WNW	0.7 WNW	0.5 W	0.3 W	0.7 WNW	0.7 WNW	0.9 WSW	0.9 WSW	0.8 WNW	0.8 WNW	0.5 W	0.9 WSW	0.9 WSW	0.9 W
Period (s)	7	13	13	8	7	8	8	13	12	13	8	8	12	12	7	7	12	12	12	6	7	7
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	0.3 WNW	0.6 S	0.3 WNW	0.3 WNW	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.4 S	0.4 S	0.8 WSW	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	-	-	4	4	4	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	3	6	-	-	-

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Del Norte County	Monterey	Santa Barbara
Humboldt County	Orange County	Santa Cruz
Los Angeles County	San Diego County	Sonoma County
Marin County	San Luis Obispo	Ventura County
Mendocino County	San Mateo

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