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

	Sunday 10			Monday 11			Tuesday 12			Wednesday 13			Thursday 14			Friday 15			Saturday 16			Sun
	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	Queen Street New Jersey	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Bethany Delaware	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	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	Fenwick Delaware	Bethany Delaware	Indian River (Northside) Delaware	Alona Bay Lake Superior
Rating	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0
Wave Height (m) & direction	0.4 WNW	0.9 SE	0.5 W	0.6 SE	0.8 ENE	-	-	-	-	0.2 S	0.3 NW	1.3 S	0.2 W	0.2 W	-	-	-	0.4 SSW	0.4 E	0.4 E	0.8 SSE	-
Period(s)	5	8	5	7	5	-	-	-	-	4	2	6	4	4	-	-	-	5	8	8	8	-
Energy	9	98	16	73	59	0	0	0	0	4	1	121	2	1	0	0	0	12	39	24	114	0
Wind (km/h)
Wind State	on	on	cross	on	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- off	cross- on	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	off
High Tide / height (m)		2:38PM 0.93	2:49AM 1.00	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	3:49AM 1.01		5:11PM 1.39	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a		6:02AM 1.18	6:26PM 1.43		6:41AM 1.11	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a		n/a n/a	n/a n/a
Low Tide / height (m)	8:39AM 0.18		9:04PM 0.28	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	10:08PM 0.21	10:36AM 0.10		n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	12:45AM 0.02	12:10PM -0.02		12:51AM -0.03	12:50PM -0.05	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	2:27PM -0.11	n/a n/a	n/a n/a
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	clear	clear	cloudy	light rain	clear	cloudy	heavy rain	mod. rain	light rain	light rain	rain shwrs	clear	clear	some clouds	heavy rain	mod. rain	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	light rain
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	12	9	2	1	7	-	-	-	14	6	-	-	-	-	2
High °C	3	21	3	12	12	3	7	6	8	4	5	16	4	5	8	8	9	9	21	30	28	12
Low °C	3	21	2	11	11	2	4	4	3	3	4	14	4	4	6	7	9	9	16	26	22	12
Chill °C (?)	0	21	-2	9	10	3	3	1	3	-1	1	14	1	5	5	5	7	8	21	30	28	11
Sunrise	6:09	-	-	5:52	-	-	6:07	-	-	6:05	-	-	6:03	-	-	6:03	-	-	5:48	-	-	6:01
Sunset	-	8:00	-	-	8:00	-	-	9:02	-	-	9:05	-	-	9:06	-	-	9:07	-	-	8:05	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.1 W	0.9 SE	0.5 W	0.6 SE	0.8 ENE	-	-	-	0.6 SSE	0.2 S	-	0.3 E	0.2 W	0.2 W	-	1.5 SSE	1.4 SSE	0.6 SSE	0.4 E	0.7 S	0.8 SSE	-
Period (s)	5	8	5	7	5	-	-	-	6	4	-	7	4	4	-	6	6	5	8	5	8	-
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	0.1 SE	-	0.2 ESE	0.4 ESE	-	-	-	0.3 ESE	0.1 SW	-	0.2 ESE	-	-	-	-	-	0.4 SSW	0.1 E	0.4 E	0.3 E	-
Period (s)	-	16	-	12	8	-	-	-	4	5	-	10	-	-	-	-	-	5	9	8	8	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	0.4 WNW	0.3 S	-	0.8 NE	-	-	1.1 SSE	1.7 SSE	0.4 E	0.3 NNW	0.3 NW	1.3 S	-	-	0.4 SSE	-	-	0.8 SE	0.6 S	0.4 SW	0.3 NE	-
Period (s)	5	2	-	4	-	-	5	6	4	2	2	6	-	-	3	-	-	5	5	3	2	-

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	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	Assateague Maryland	Assateague Maryland	Assateague Maryland	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Assateague Maryland	Broadway New Jersey	Queen Street New Jersey	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Naval Jetties Delaware	Bethany Delaware	Bethany Delaware	Assateague Maryland	Assateague Maryland	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Naval Jetties Delaware	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior
Rating	1	1	1	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
Wave Height (m) & direction	1.1 SE	1.1 SE	1.0 SE	0.7 W	0.9 W	1.0 SE	0.8 SE	0.7 SE	0.4 WNW	0.3 W	0.2 W	0.5 SE	0.6 ESE	0.5 ESE	0.6 ESE	0.5 E	-	-	-	0.4 ESE	-	-
Period(s)	7	7	8	4	5	7	7	7	5	5	4	8	8	8	8	8	-	-	-	8	-	-
Energy	138	143	127	17	37	121	80	66	9	4	1	61	76	64	70	52	0	0	0	40	0	0
Wind (km/h)
Wind State	cross- off	off	glass	on	on	cross- off	off	off	cross- off	glass	on	glass	glass	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	cross- off	cross- off
Tide State	mid-ebb	mid-ebb	low	-	-	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	-	-	-	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	-	-	-	low	-	-
High Tide / height (m)				n/a n/a	n/a n/a				n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a		3:47PM 1.10				n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a		n/a n/a	n/a n/a
Low Tide / height (m)			8:39AM 0.18	n/a n/a	n/a n/a		9:07PM 0.32		n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a				10:08PM 0.21		n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	11:15AM 0.10	n/a n/a	n/a n/a
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	cloudy	cloudy	rain shwrs	clear	clear	clear	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	clear	cloudy	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	clear	mod. rain	light rain
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	5
Temp. °C	19	17	21	4	3	22	14	14	2	3	4	10	11	12	11	12	2	4	7	13	6	8
Chill °C (?)	19	17	21	-1	-2	22	12	13	0	2	1	10	11	11	10	10	-2	0	3	13	1	3
Sunrise	-	5:54	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:07	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:07	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:00	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9:02
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.1 SE	1.1 SE	1.0 SE	-	-	0.3 E	0.8 SE	0.7 SE	0.4 WNW	0.3 W	0.2 W	0.6 ENE	0.6 ENE	0.5 ENE	0.5 ENE	0.5 E	-	-	-	0.4 ESE	-	-
Period (s)	7	7	8	-	-	9	7	7	5	5	4	5	5	5	5	8	-	-	-	8	-	-
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.3 E	0.3 E	0.3 E	-	-	0.1 SE	0.1 SE	0.1 SE	-	-	-	0.5 SE	0.6 ESE	0.5 ESE	0.6 ESE	0.4 ENE	-	-	-	0.2 ENE	-	-
Period (s)	9	9	9	-	-	11	11	11	-	-	-	8	8	8	8	5	-	-	-	4	-	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	0.7 W	0.9 W	1.0 SE	-	0.3 NNW	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.5 SE	1.1 SSE	0.4 NE	1.7 SSE	1.5 SSE
Period (s)	-	-	-	4	5	7	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	5	4	6	7

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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	Assateague Maryland	Assateague Maryland	Assateague Maryland	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Assateague Maryland	Broadway New Jersey	Queen Street New Jersey	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Naval Jetties Delaware	Bethany Delaware	Bethany Delaware	Assateague Maryland	Assateague Maryland	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Naval Jetties Delaware	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior
Rating	1	1	1	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
Wave Height (m) & direction	1.2 SSE	1.1 SE	1.1 SE	0.5 W	0.4 WNW	1.1 SE	0.9 SE	0.9 SE	0.4 WNW	0.4 WNW	0.6 W	0.8 SE	0.8 SE	0.8 SE	1.0 SE	1.0 SE	0.9 W	0.9 W	0.8 W	0.7 SE	0.6 W	0.6 W
Period(s)	7	7	7	5	5	7	7	8	5	5	4	8	8	8	7	7	5	5	5	7	5	6
Energy	150	135	138	14	9	143	85	88	9	9	11	77	90	89	123	123	40	43	42	64	20	22
Wind (km/h)
Wind State	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- on	cross- on	off	glass	glass	on	on	on	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	cross	cross	on	on	cross- on	cross	cross- on	cross- on
High Tide / height (m)				n/a n/a	n/a n/a				n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a		2:53PM 1.02				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		8:58AM 0.23		n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a						n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	9:46PM 0.23	n/a n/a	n/a n/a
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	cloudy	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	19	19	19	3	3	17	16	17	3	4	4	22	21	21	22	22	3	3	3	15	3	2
Chill °C (?)	19	19	19	0	0	17	16	17	-1	0	0	22	21	21	22	22	-2	-2	-2	13	-1	-2
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	6:09	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9:01	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.2 SSE	1.1 SE	1.1 SE	0.5 W	0.4 WNW	1.1 SE	0.9 SE	0.9 SE	0.1 W	0.1 W	0.1 W	0.8 SE	0.8 SE	0.8 SE	1.0 SE	1.0 SE	-	-	0.4 WSW	0.7 SE	0.6 W	0.6 W
Period (s)	7	7	7	5	5	7	7	8	5	6	5	8	8	8	7	7	-	-	5	7	5	6
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.3 E	0.3 E	0.3 E	-	-	0.3 E	0.2 E	0.2 E	-	-	-	0.2 E	0.2 E	0.2 E	0.3 E	0.3 E	-	-	-	0.2 E	-	-
Period (s)	9	9	9	-	-	9	9	8	-	-	-	8	9	9	9	9	-	-	-	8	-	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.4 WNW	0.4 WNW	0.6 W	-	-	-	-	-	0.9 W	0.9 W	0.8 W	0.3 N	-	-
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	5	4	-	-	-	-	-	5	5	5	2	-	-

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