Great Lakes Surf

Detailed Great Lakes 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 Great Lakes. 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 Great Lakes. Our local Wavefinder indicates where some of the best conditions are likely to be found in Great Lakes over the next 7 days. Surf photos from Great Lakes and reviews of the best spots and surfing conditions have been provided by local surfers.

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Great Lakes Wavefinder

Long range 3-hourly Hourly

	Thursday 07			Friday 08			Saturday 09			Sunday 10			Monday 11			Tuesday 12			Wednesday 13			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 Great Lakes	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Assateague Maryland	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Indian River (Northside) Delaware	Queen Street New Jersey	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Assateague Maryland	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Assateague Maryland	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Ocean City Maryland	Chincoteague Virginia
Rating	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	1
Wave Height (m) & direction	0.4 W	0.4 W	0.5 SSE	0.3 SSW	0.4 SW	0.2 W	0.5 S	1.4 SSE	0.9 SSE	0.4 WNW	0.8 SSE	0.5 W	0.3 W	0.4 W	-	0.9 NNE	-	-	-	-	1.5 S	1.2 S
Period(s)	6	5	6	4	4	4	5	6	6	5	6	6	5	4	-	4	-	-	-	-	7	6
Energy	12	9	45	6	6	3	13	163	88	10	70	16	4	4	0	74	0	0	0	0	212	127
Wind (km/h)
Wind State	cross- on	cross- on	cross- off	cross	cross- on	cross- off	cross- on	cross- off	cross- on	on	cross- on	cross	cross- on	on	glass	cross- off	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)	1:54PM 0.37	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	2:38PM 0.93	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a
Low Tide / height (m)		n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a		n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	some clouds	light rain	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	some clouds	clear	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	light rain	light rain	cloudy	rain shwrs	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	1	-	2	-
High °C	3	4	12	5	7	7	5	18	16	4	19	4	4	4	3	12	10	7	6	9	16	18
Low °C	3	4	11	3	6	6	4	17	16	4	18	2	3	4	1	8	8	6	6	8	15	15
Chill °C (?)	0	0	10	1	4	5	4	17	14	2	19	-1	0	0	1	10	7	4	3	7	14	18
Sunrise	6:13	-	-	6:11	-	-	6:11	-	-	6:09	-	-	6:07	-	-	5:52	-	-	6:05	-	-	5:52
Sunset	-	8:57	-	-	8:58	-	-	7:59	-	-	7:59	-	-	9:01	-	-	9:02	-	-	9:05	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.4 W	0.1 W	0.5 SSE	0.2 W	-	0.2 W	0.5 S	0.4 E	0.9 SSE	0.2 W	0.8 SSE	0.5 W	0.3 W	-	-	0.4 ESE	-	-	-	-	0.3 E	0.2 E
Period (s)	6	5	6	5	-	4	5	9	6	5	6	6	5	-	-	7	-	-	-	-	7	8
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	-	0.3 ESE	0.2 S	-	0.1 SW	0.4 SSE	0.1 SE	0.3 ESE	-	0.3 E	-	-	-	-	0.3 ESE	-	-	-	-	0.2 ESE	0.2 ESE
Period (s)	-	-	9	4	-	4	4	11	9	-	9	-	-	-	-	11	-	-	-	-	10	10
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	0.4 W	0.3 WNW	0.3 SSW	0.4 SW	0.3 SSE	-	1.4 SSE	-	0.4 WNW	-	-	-	0.4 W	-	0.9 NNE	-	-	-	-	1.5 S	1.2 S
Period (s)	-	5	2	4	4	3	-	6	-	5	-	-	-	4	-	4	-	-	-	-	7	6

	Thursday 07							Friday 08								Saturday 09
	5AM	8AM	11AM	2PM	5PM	8PM	11PM	2AM	5AM	8AM	11AM	2PM	5PM	8PM	11PM	2AM	5AM	8AM	11AM	2PM	5PM	8PM
Best forecast wave conditions in Great Lakes	Chincoteague Virginia	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Assateague Maryland	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior
Rating	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Wave Height (m) & direction	1.2 S	0.4 W	0.4 W	0.4 W	0.4 W	-	0.2 W	0.2 W	0.2 W	0.3 W	0.4 SSE	0.5 SW	0.4 SW	0.2 SSW	0.2 W	0.2 W	0.2 W	0.7 S	0.5 S	0.4 SSW	0.7 WNW	0.8 WNW
Period(s)	6	6	6	6	5	-	4	4	5	5	7	4	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	4	5
Energy	121	15	12	11	9	0	1	1	2	6	42	11	6	3	2	3	4	26	13	8	22	32
Wind (km/h)
Wind State	cross- off	cross- on	cross- on	on	cross- on	on	glass	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- on	cross- on	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	on	cross- on	on	cross- on	cross- on
Tide State	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	mid-flow	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High Tide / height (m)		n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a		n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a
Low Tide / height (m)		n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a		n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	light rain	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	clear	cloudy	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	light rain	cloudy	light rain	some clouds
Rain (mm)	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	-	2	-
Temp. °C	17	3	3	4	4	3	2	2	1	3	14	7	6	7	6	6	6	5	4	5	4	4
Chill °C (?)	17	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	-2	0	13	4	4	5	4	2	4	4	0	1	-1	-1
Sunrise	-	6:13	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:11	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:11	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	8:57	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:58	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:59
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.2 S	0.4 W	0.4 W	0.1 W	0.1 W	-	0.2 W	0.2 W	0.2 W	0.3 W	0.4 SSE	0.2 W	-	0.2 SSW	0.2 W	0.2 W	0.2 W	0.7 S	0.5 S	0.4 SSW	0.3 SSW	0.1 SW
Period (s)	6	6	6	6	5	-	4	4	5	5	7	5	-	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	4	4
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.1 E	0.2 W	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.3 ESE	-	-	0.2 W	-	0.1 SW	0.2 W	0.2 W	0.4 SSE	0.3 SSE	0.2 SSE	-
Period (s)	10	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	-	-	4	-	4	5	5	4	4	4	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	0.4 W	0.4 W	-	-	-	-	0.2 SSW	0.5 N	0.5 SW	0.4 SW	-	0.2 S	0.3 SSE	0.6 S	0.5 SSE	-	-	0.7 WNW	0.8 WNW
Period (s)	-	-	-	6	5	-	-	-	-	3	4	4	4	-	4	3	4	5	-	-	4	5

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	3AM	4AM	5AM	6AM	7AM	8AM	9AM	10AM	11AM	12PM	1PM	2PM	3PM	4PM	5PM	6PM	7PM	8PM	9PM	10PM	11PM	0AM
Best forecast wave conditions in Great Lakes	Chincoteague Virginia	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Assateague Maryland	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior
Rating	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Wave Height (m) & direction	1.3 S	0.5 W	0.5 W	0.5 W	0.5 W	0.4 W	0.4 W	0.4 W	0.4 W	0.4 W	0.8 SSE	0.4 W	0.4 W	0.4 W	0.4 W	0.4 W	0.2 W	-	0.3 W	-	0.2 W	0.2 W
Period(s)	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	5	5	5	5	-	5	-	4	4
Energy	148	15	17	19	22	15	12	13	12	11	54	11	11	10	9	10	2	0	4	0	1	1
Wind (km/h)
Wind State	cross- off	on	on	on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross	on	on	on	cross- on	on	on	on	cross- on	glass	glass	cross
High Tide / height (m)		n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	12:08PM 0.86	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a
Low Tide / height (m)		n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a		n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	18	2	2	2	2	3	3	3	3	3	11	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	2	2	2
Chill °C (?)	17	-2	-2	-2	-2	0	0	0	0	0	9	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	0
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	6:13	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:58	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.1 E	0.5 W	0.5 W	0.5 W	0.5 W	0.4 W	0.4 W	0.4 W	0.4 W	0.4 W	0.8 SSE	0.1 W	0.1 W	0.1 W	0.1 W	0.2 W	0.2 W	-	-	-	0.2 W	0.2 W
Period (s)	10	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	5	5	5	5	-	-	-	4	4
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.1 E	-	-	-	0.2 W	0.2 W	-	0.1 W	-	-	0.4 NNE	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	12	-	-	-	6	6	-	6	-	-	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	1.3 S	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.4 W	0.4 W	0.4 W	0.4 W	0.4 W	-	-	0.3 W	-	-	-
Period (s)	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	6	5	5	5	-	-	5	-	-	-

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