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

	Thursday 18			Friday 19			Saturday 20			Sunday 21			Monday 22			Tuesday 23			Wednesday 24			Thu
	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM
Best forecast wave conditions in California	Steamer Lane-The Point CAL - Santa Cruz	Chadbourne Gulch CAL - Mendocino County	Port Orford Oregon South	Big River CAL - Mendocino County	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Big Lagoon CAL - Humboldt	Big Lagoon CAL - Humboldt	Gualala Rivermouth CAL - Mendocino County	Big Lagoon CAL - Humboldt	Big Lagoon CAL - Humboldt	Big Lagoon CAL - Humboldt	Big Lagoon CAL - Humboldt	Big Lagoon CAL - Humboldt	Big Lagoon CAL - Humboldt	Big Lagoon CAL - Humboldt	Big Lagoon CAL - Humboldt	Big Lagoon CAL - Humboldt	Big Lagoon CAL - Humboldt	Ben Weston (Catalina Island) CAL - Orange County	Bunkers CAL - Humboldt	Redwood Creek CAL - Humboldt	Popotla Baja Norte
Rating	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	2	4	5	2
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.3 W	1.8 WNW	5.0 WSW	3.0 W	1.8 WNW	2.0 WNW	2.0 WNW	1.3 NW	1.7 WNW	1.4 NW	1.4 NW	2.0 WNW	2.0 WNW	1.8 WNW	2.4 WNW	2.5 WNW	2.4 WNW	2.1 WNW	1.3 SW	1.4 NW	1.8 SSW	1.4 SW
Period(s) (?)	11	10	11	11	11	12	12	12	11	11	10	10	10	10	12	12	12	12	7	11	9	7
Energy(?)	652	831	8788	2311	803	1742	1411	783	926	712	697	1075	1136	1012	1629	1724	1568	1177	280	841	726	275
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	glass	cross- off	on	on	cross- off	glass	glass	glass	cross- on	glass	cross- off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- on	off	off	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)			10:27PM 1.01	8:52AM 1.74		11:29PM 1.52	10:23AM 1.89		12:45AM 1.72	11:38AM 2.39		1:30AM 1.38	11:30AM 1.84		1:31AM 1.54	11:14AM 2.01		2:57AM 2.17		1:25PM 2.38	3:33AM 2.22
Low Tide / height (m)		4:30PM -0.12	2:32AM 0.73		4:27PM 0.17	3:16AM 1.29	4:13AM 1.02	6:22PM -0.21		5:53AM 1.27	6:53PM 0.24		5:37AM 1.03	6:18PM 0.22		5:20AM 1.34	6:53PM 0.29	7:59PM 0.34	7:54AM 1.54		8:33PM 0.45	9:01AM 1.05
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	some clouds	heavy rain	heavy rain	clear	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	heavy rain	light rain	rain shwrs	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	mod. rain	heavy rain	mod. rain	rain shwrs	heavy rain	heavy rain	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	43	16	-	-	-	4	12	1	1	-	-	-	-	9	11	7	4	30	11	-
High °C	17	14	13	14	18	10	11	14	10	11	11	10	12	11	10	9	7	9	15	10	9	18
Low °C	13	14	10	14	16	9	10	13	9	10	11	9	10	10	9	8	7	7	14	8	8	17
Chill °C (?)	17	13	9	12	18	10	11	13	9	11	10	8	10	9	9	8	4	7	14	6	6	18
Sunrise	7:15	-	-	7:30	-	-	7:37	-	-	7:37	-	-	7:37	-	-	7:39	-	-	6:54	-	-	6:46
Sunset	-	4:52	-	-	4:54	-	-	4:54	-	-	4:50	-	-	4:51	-	-	4:51	-	-	4:53	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.3 W	1.8 WNW	3.5 W	3.0 W	1.8 WNW	2.0 WNW	2.0 WNW	1.3 NW	1.7 WNW	1.4 NW	1.4 NW	2.0 WNW	2.0 WNW	1.8 WNW	2.4 WNW	2.5 WNW	2.4 WNW	2.1 WNW	1.3 SW	1.7 S	1.1 NW	1.4 SW
Period (s)	11	10	11	11	11	12	12	12	11	11	10	10	10	10	12	12	12	12	7	7	10	7
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.9 WNW	0.4 SW	-	0.4 SW	0.3 SSW	1.6 WSW	1.3 WSW	1.2 W	1.0 WSW	0.9 WSW	0.8 WSW	1.0 WSW	0.8 WNW	0.9 WNW	0.7 SW	0.1 SW	0.4 SW	0.2 SSW	0.9 SSE	1.4 NW	0.1 SW	0.4 SW
Period (s)	11	13	-	12	12	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	14	13	9	17	8	16	6	11	15	13
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	5.0 WSW	-	0.7 NW	-	-	-	-	-	0.4 SW	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.8 SSW	-
Period (s)	-	-	11	-	4	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9	-

	Thursday 18						Friday 19								Saturday 20
	7AM	10AM	1PM	4PM	7PM	10PM	1AM	4AM	7AM	10AM	1PM	4PM	7PM	10PM	1AM	4AM	7AM	10AM	1PM	4PM	7PM	10PM
Best forecast wave conditions in California	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Chadbourne Gulch CAL - Mendocino County	Cayucos Pier CAL - San Luis Obispo	Steamer Lane-The Point CAL - Santa Cruz	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Chadbourne Gulch CAL - Mendocino County	Port Orford Oregon South	Black Point Beach CAL - Sonoma	Port Orford Oregon South	Cape Sebastian Oregon South	Big River CAL - Mendocino County	Big River CAL - Mendocino County	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Big Lagoon CAL - Humboldt	Big Lagoon CAL - Humboldt	Big Lagoon CAL - Humboldt	Big Lagoon CAL - Humboldt	Brookings/South Jetty Oregon South
Rating	4	4	4	3	3	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.4 WNW	1.9 W	1.6 WNW	1.5 WNW	1.8 WNW	1.7 WNW	2.2 WNW	3.0 W	2.2 WNW	2.3 NW	2.1 NW	2.5 W	2.2 W	2.0 WNW	1.9 WNW	1.9 WNW	1.6 NW	2.0 WNW	1.9 NW	1.9 WNW	1.8 NW	1.9 NW
Period(s) (?)	11	10	11	11	11	10	11	11	11	13	13	10	11	11	11	11	12	12	11	11	11	11
Energy(?)	1043	1082	1168	542	773	668	1091	2717	1085	3056	2678	2002	2156	1004	1073	1109	1078	1411	1225	1172	1068	1157
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	glass	glass	glass	glass	glass	glass	cross- off
Tide State(?)	-	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	mid-flow	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	low	mid-flow	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow
High Tide / height (m)		9:12AM 1.88					11:48PM 1.31				10:20AM 2.79				11:29PM 1.52				10:50AM 2.67
Low Tide / height (m)				3:42PM -0.14									5:06PM -0.15			3:16AM 1.29					6:11PM 0.21
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	cloudy	clear	clear	clear	clear	light rain	mod. rain	cloudy	light rain	light rain	light rain	cloudy	clear	clear	clear	clear	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	light rain
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	7	-	1	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
Temp. °C	15	13	20	17	16	15	14	10	14	9	9	13	13	16	16	16	16	10	11	10	10	8
Chill °C (?)	14	12	20	17	15	14	13	8	12	7	8	12	13	16	16	16	16	10	11	10	10	6
Sunrise	-	7:30	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:43	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:37	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	4:52	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4:53	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4:50	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.4 WNW	1.9 W	1.3 W	1.5 WNW	1.8 WNW	1.7 WNW	2.2 WNW	3.0 W	2.2 WNW	2.4 WSW	2.3 WSW	2.5 W	2.2 W	2.0 WNW	1.9 WNW	1.9 WNW	1.6 NW	2.0 WNW	1.9 NW	1.9 WNW	1.8 NW	1.9 NW
Period (s)	11	10	11	11	11	10	11	11	11	11	11	10	11	11	11	11	12	12	11	11	11	11
Swell2 (m) & direction	1.3 NW	1.0 NW	0.8 NW	0.4 WSW	0.3 W	0.3 W	0.3 SSW	1.8 WNW	0.4 SW	2.3 NW	2.1 NW	1.3 NW	1.7 NW	0.2 SSW	0.8 NW	0.8 NW	1.2 W	1.3 WSW	1.2 WSW	1.2 WSW	1.1 WSW	1.2 WSW
Period (s)	12	11	12	11	11	11	13	11	12	13	13	13	13	12	14	14	9	10	10	10	11	10
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	1.6 WNW	-	0.2 NNE	0.8 NNW	0.6 S	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	-	11	-	3	4	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

	Thursday 18																			Friday 19
	5AM	6AM	7AM	8AM	9AM	10AM	11AM	12PM	1PM	2PM	3PM	4PM	5PM	6PM	7PM	8PM	9PM	10PM	11PM	0AM	1AM	2AM
Best forecast wave conditions in California	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Chadbourne Gulch CAL - Mendocino County	Cayucos Pier CAL - San Luis Obispo	Steamer Lane-The Point CAL - Santa Cruz	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Chadbourne Gulch CAL - Mendocino County	Port Orford Oregon South	Black Point Beach CAL - Sonoma	Port Orford Oregon South	Cape Sebastian Oregon South	Big River CAL - Mendocino County	Big River CAL - Mendocino County	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Big Lagoon CAL - Humboldt	Big Lagoon CAL - Humboldt	Big Lagoon CAL - Humboldt	Big Lagoon CAL - Humboldt	Brookings/South Jetty Oregon South
Rating	4	4	4	3	3	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.6 WNW	1.9 W	1.5 W	1.3 W	1.4 NW	1.4 NW	1.9 WNW	2.3 W	1.8 WNW	2.4 WSW	3.0 W	1.5 W	1.5 W	1.8 WNW	1.8 WNW	1.7 WNW	1.7 WNW	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	3.0 W	3.0 W	3.5 W
Period(s) (?)	12	10	12	11	12	12	10	10	11	10	10	11	10	11	11	11	10	11	11	11	11	11
Energy(?)	1030	1309	766	644	974	974	1112	1645	787	1749	2357	848	826	790	773	692	681	2158	2158	2245	2245	3881
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross- off	off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross	on	cross- off	on	cross- on	cross	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- on
High Tide / height (m)					8:14AM 2.14															11:48PM 2.07
Low Tide / height (m)													4:31PM -0.12
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	some clouds	clear	some clouds	clear	clear	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	clear	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	light rain	light rain
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	2	5
High °C	14	11	12	11	16	17	14	13	14	13	13	14	15	16	16	16	16	14	14	14	14	13
Chill °C (?)	13	10	11	11	16	17	13	10	14	10	10	13	14	15	15	16	16	12	12	12	12	10
Sunrise	-	-	-	7:15	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4:53	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.6 WNW	1.9 W	1.5 W	1.3 W	1.4 NW	1.4 NW	1.9 WNW	2.3 W	1.8 WNW	2.4 WSW	3.0 W	1.5 W	1.5 W	1.8 WNW	1.8 WNW	1.7 WNW	1.7 WNW	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	3.0 W	3.0 W	3.5 W
Period (s)	12	10	12	11	12	12	10	10	11	10	10	11	10	11	11	11	10	11	11	11	11	11
Swell2 (m) & direction	1.1 NW	1.4 NW	0.5 NW	0.9 NW	1.3 W	1.3 W	1.0 NW	1.5 WNW	0.4 SSW	1.6 WNW	0.4 SW	1.2 NW	1.2 NW	0.5 W	0.3 W	0.3 W	0.3 W	0.3 SW	0.3 SW	0.3 SW	0.3 SW	-
Period (s)	12	11	13	11	11	11	11	11	13	11	13	10	10	11	11	11	11	13	13	13	13	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	0.7 NW	0.7 NW	-	3.5 SSW	-	4.0 SSW	2.5 SSW	-	-	0.2 NNE	0.2 NNE	0.2 NNE	0.2 NNE	-	-	1.7 SSW	1.7 SSW	3.0 SSW
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	5	5	-	8	-	8	7	-	-	3	3	3	3	-	-	6	6	8

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