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

	Wed		Thursday 05			Friday 06			Saturday 07			Sunday 08			Monday 09			Tuesday 10			Wed
	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 Great Lakes	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Chincoteague Virginia	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Assateague Maryland	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	The Cove Cape May New Jersey	Bethany Delaware	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Apostle Islands Lake Superior	Ocean City Maryland	Broadway New Jersey	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Assateague Maryland	Apostle Islands Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Grand Haven Lake Michigan	Grand Haven Lake Michigan	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	The Cove Delaware Delaware
Rating	0	2	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	2	1	3	1	0	0	3	3	0	0	0	2
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	-	1.1 SE	-	0.9 ESE	-	-	1.1 E	0.9 ENE	0.7 W	-	1.2 S	0.5 E	2.5 WSW	0.5 E	-	1.8 SSW	2.1 SSW	2.5 SSW	0.1 W	-	-	-
Period(s) (?)	-	8	-	10	-	-	7	7	6	-	6	9	9	9	-	7	6	7	5	-	-	-
Energy(?)	0	162	0	170	0	0	135	152	46	0	160	82	969	86	0	577	370	656	1	0	0	0
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	glass	on	off	on	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- on	cross	cross	cross	cross- off	cross	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	cross	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)		8:58PM 1.44	9:05AM 1.49	n/a n/a	9:29PM 1.48	9:23AM 1.16		10:07PM 1.45	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	10:34AM 0.91		n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	1:09AM 1.24	n/a n/a	n/a n/a
Low Tide / height (m)		2:42AM -0.19		n/a n/a	3:28AM -0.08		5:26PM -0.02		n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	4:29AM 0.06	4:52PM 0.13	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	cloudy	light rain	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	clear	some clouds	cloudy	light rain	mod. rain	some clouds	cloudy	clear	rain shwrs	light snow	light snow	cloudy	some clouds
Rain (mm)	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	-	-	1	8	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-
High °C	2	13	-1	12	0	1	1	7	8	2	17	15	4	13	7	6	9	11	-1	-4	-3	23
Low °C	1	10	-6	9	-2	0	0	2	6	1	15	14	4	13	6	2	4	8	-2	-7	-6	22
Chill °C (?)	0	12	-5	10	-4	-4	-5	5	4	-3	16	14	-1	12	2	3	6	9	-6	-10	-7	23
Sunrise	-	-	7:11	-	-	7:09	-	-	7:07	-	-	6:22	-	-	6:26	-	-	7:05	-	-	7:00	-
Sunset	6:27	-	-	5:57	-	-	5:57	-	-	5:54	-	-	6:32	-	-	6:35	-	-	6:36	-	-	6:01
Swell1 (m) & direction	-	1.1 SE	-	0.9 ESE	-	-	0.3 SSE	0.9 ENE	0.5 SSW	-	0.6 E	0.7 S	-	0.6 S	-	1.5 SSW	-	0.1 N	0.1 W	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	8	-	10	-	-	6	7	5	-	9	6	-	6	-	7	-	5	5	-	-	-
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	-	-	0.6 S	-	-	0.5 S	0.6 ESE	-	-	0.3 ESE	0.5 E	-	0.5 E	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	-	-	5	-	-	6	10	-	-	9	9	-	9	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	0.6 ENE	0.6 S	-	0.9 SSE	1.1 E	-	0.7 W	-	1.2 S	0.4 WNW	2.5 WSW	-	-	1.8 SSW	2.1 SSW	2.5 SSW	0.4 NE	-	-	1.3 S
Period (s)	-	-	3	5	-	5	7	-	6	-	6	3	9	-	-	7	6	7	3	-	-	6

	Wednesday 04			Thursday 05								Friday 06								Saturday 07
	4PM	7PM	10PM	1AM	4AM	7AM	10AM	1PM	4PM	7PM	10PM	1AM	4AM	7AM	10AM	1PM	4PM	7PM	10PM	1AM	4AM	7AM
Best forecast wave conditions in Great Lakes	The Cove Cape May New Jersey	Stockton New Jersey	Queen Street New Jersey	Alona Bay Lake Superior	The Cove Cape May New Jersey	Bethany Delaware	Chincoteague Virginia	The Cove Cape May New Jersey	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Union Bay Lake Superior	Assateague Maryland	Broadway New Jersey	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	The Cove Cape May New Jersey	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Au Sable Point Lake Superior
Rating	1	1	1	0	1	1	2	1	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.8 SE	0.8 SE	0.8 SE	-	0.8 SE	0.9 SE	1.1 SE	0.7 SE	-	-	1.2 E	0.8 ESE	0.6 SE	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.6 ESE	0.6 S	1.6 W
Period(s) (?)	8	8	8	-	8	8	9	9	-	-	7	9	9	-	-	-	-	-	-	10	4	6
Energy(?)	93	87	92	0	103	133	236	114	0	0	142	154	92	0	0	0	0	0	0	125	15	169
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off
Tide State(?)	low	mid-flow	high	-	low	mid-flow	mid-flow	mid-ebb	-	-	-	mid-ebb	low	-	-	-	-	-	-	high	-	-
High Tide / height (m)			8:51PM 1.49	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	10:07PM 1.45	n/a n/a	n/a n/a
Low Tide / height (m)	2:31PM -0.16			n/a n/a	2:45AM -0.14				n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a		3:28AM -0.08	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	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	light rain	cloudy	mod. rain	light rain
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	4	3	-	10	1
Temp. °C	7	6	6	-7	7	8	15	9	1	1	2	11	3	0	0	1	2	3	4	2	7	9
Chill °C (?)	5	4	4	-14	5	6	14	7	-2	-3	-1	10	-2	-4	-4	-4	-3	-1	0	-2	4	6
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	6:26	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:09	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	5:54	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:29	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:30	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.8 SE	0.8 SE	0.8 SE	-	0.8 SE	0.9 SE	1.1 SE	0.7 SE	-	-	-	0.8 ESE	0.6 SE	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.6 ESE	0.6 S	0.1 SE
Period (s)	8	8	8	-	8	8	9	9	-	-	-	9	9	-	-	-	-	-	-	10	4	4
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.1 SE	0.1 NE	0.2 ESE	-	0.3 SE	0.3 ESE	0.4 SE	0.4 SE	-	-	-	0.2 NNE	0.4 SSE	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.3 SSE	-	-
Period (s)	13	5	12	-	12	12	12	11	-	-	-	4	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	-	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	0.7 NE	-	-	0.6 SSW	-	0.4 ENE	0.3 ENE	1.2 E	0.9 S	0.5 NE	0.6 SSE	0.9 SSE	1.0 SSE	1.0 SSE	0.9 SSE	0.7 SSE	0.7 E	-	1.6 W
Period (s)	-	-	-	3	-	-	4	-	3	2	7	5	4	4	5	5	5	5	5	7	-	6

	Wednesday 04	Thursday 05
	2PM	3PM	4PM	5PM	6PM	7PM	8PM	9PM	10PM	11PM	0AM	1AM	2AM	3AM	4AM	5AM	6AM	7AM	8AM	9AM	10AM	11AM
Best forecast wave conditions in Great Lakes	The Cove Cape May New Jersey	Stockton New Jersey	Queen Street New Jersey	Alona Bay Lake Superior	The Cove Cape May New Jersey	Bethany Delaware	Chincoteague Virginia	The Cove Cape May New Jersey	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Union Bay Lake Superior	Assateague Maryland	Broadway New Jersey	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	The Cove Cape May New Jersey	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Au Sable Point Lake Superior
Rating	1	1	1	0	1	1	2	1	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.9 SE	0.9 SE	0.8 SE	-	0.8 SE	0.9 ESE	1.1 SE	0.8 SE	-	-	0.9 NE	1.0 SE	0.8 SE	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.7 SE	-	1.6 E
Period(s) (?)	8	8	8	-	8	8	8	8	-	-	4	8	8	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	-	6
Energy(?)	108	108	93	0	93	114	158	103	0	0	23	170	101	0	0	0	0	0	0	94	0	181
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	glass	cross- off	cross	glass	cross- off	cross- on	cross- on	cross- off	off	off	cross- on	on	cross- on	off	off	off	off	off	off	cross- on	off	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)				n/a n/a				8:51PM 1.49	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)		2:29PM -0.24		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	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	cloudy	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	7	7	7	1	6	7	10	6	-3	-5	-1	9	6	-8	-8	-8	-8	-8	-8	7	-6	0
Chill °C (?)	7	6	5	1	4	5	8	4	-9	-12	-6	7	4	-15	-15	-15	-14	-14	-14	6	-12	-5
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:11	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.9 SE	0.9 SE	0.8 SE	-	0.8 SE	0.9 ESE	1.1 SE	0.8 SE	-	-	-	1.0 SE	0.8 SE	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.7 SE	-	-
Period (s)	8	8	8	-	8	8	8	8	-	-	-	8	8	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	-	-
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.1 SE	0.1 SE	0.1 SE	-	0.1 SE	-	-	0.2 ESE	-	-	-	0.4 SE	0.3 SE	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.3 SE	-	-
Period (s)	13	13	13	-	13	-	-	12	-	-	-	12	12	-	-	-	-	-	-	12	-	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.6 ENE	0.7 NE	0.9 NE	-	-	0.8 ENE	0.8 ENE	0.8 ENE	0.8 ENE	0.8 ENE	0.8 ENE	-	0.6 ENE	1.6 E
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	3	4	-	-	4	4	4	4	4	4	-	3	6

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