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

	Friday 17			Saturday 18			Sunday 19			Monday 20			Tuesday 21			Wednesday 22			Thursday 23			Fri
	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	Assateague Maryland	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Sauble Beach Lake Huron	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	Long Point Lake Erie	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
Rating	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.8 SSE	-	-	1.7 W	1.6 WNW	2.0 W	1.0 WNW	1.0 WNW	0.4 WNW	-	0.6 SSW	2.4 S	1.4 SSW	1.3 SW	0.2 ENE	0.2 W	-	-	-	-	-	0.4 ENE
Period(s) (?)	6	-	-	8	6	9	8	6	5	-	4	7	8	6	7	5	-	-	-	-	-	8
Energy(?)	66	0	0	346	262	685	122	81	9	0	12	554	259	112	8	2	0	0	0	0	0	31
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	on	cross- on	on	cross- on	cross- on	cross	on	cross	cross	cross- on	cross- on	cross- off	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)			8:10PM 1.37	8:41AM 1.16		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		12:42AM 1.18	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a
Low Tide / height (m)		2:09PM -0.09	2:53AM -0.13		2:54PM -0.09	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	7:09PM 0.08		n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	cloudy	rain shwrs	light snow	rain shwrs	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	clear	clear	cloudy	light snow	clear	some clouds	cloudy	clear	some clouds	cloudy	light rain	light rain	light rain	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	10	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	2	3	-
High °C	24	12	12	2	4	1	-1	-1	0	0	1	5	3	12	13	3	7	6	5	8	11	18
Low °C	20	12	6	1	4	0	-1	-1	-2	-1	1	2	3	10	8	-1	5	3	5	7	9	13
Chill °C (?)	24	10	9	-3	-1	-5	-8	-8	-6	-4	-1	0	-2	9	11	0	4	3	1	6	8	18
Sunrise	6:22	-	-	6:46	-	-	6:43	-	-	6:41	-	-	6:39	-	-	6:37	-	-	6:37	-	-	6:13
Sunset	-	8:29	-	-	8:13	-	-	8:31	-	-	8:34	-	-	8:08	-	-	8:36	-	-	8:37	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.8 SSE	-	-	0.3 S	0.9 SSW	0.1 S	-	0.1 W	0.4 WNW	-	0.2 W	-	1.4 SSW	-	0.2 ENE	0.2 W	-	-	-	-	-	0.4 ENE
Period (s)	6	-	-	6	7	10	-	6	5	-	4	-	8	-	7	5	-	-	-	-	-	8
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.3 ESE	-	-	0.1 SW	0.5 WSW	0.1 SW	0.1 S	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.1 SE	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.1 SE
Period (s)	8	-	-	6	6	7	9	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9	-	-	-	-	-	-	8
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	1.8 SE	3.0 SSE	1.7 W	1.6 WNW	2.0 W	1.0 WNW	1.0 WNW	-	-	0.6 SSW	2.4 S	0.8 WSW	1.3 SW	1.2 S	-	-	0.3 ESE	-	-	-	0.5 S
Period (s)	-	6	8	8	6	9	8	6	-	-	4	7	6	6	5	-	-	3	-	-	-	4

	Friday 17							Saturday 18								Sunday 19
	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	Assateague Maryland	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	Sauble Beach Lake Huron	Naval Jetties Delaware	Assateague Maryland	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior
Rating	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	0	0	0
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.2 S	1.0 S	0.8 SSE	0.8 SSE	0.7 SSE	-	0.1 SW	-	0.8 WSW	1.7 W	1.7 W	2.1 W	2.5 W	2.5 W	2.4 W	1.9 NW	0.9 SE	1.0 S	1.0 WNW	0.9 WNW	1.0 WNW	0.9 WNW
Period(s) (?)	6	6	6	6	6	-	8	-	4	7	8	8	9	9	9	8	5	5	8	7	6	6
Energy(?)	134	102	66	64	53	0	3	0	20	393	346	513	992	1222	990	416	44	58	122	82	81	49
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	on	on	on	on	on	on	on	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on
Tide State(?)	low	high	mid-ebb	mid-ebb	low	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	low	mid-flow	-	-	-	-
High Tide / height (m)		7:54AM 1.17				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)	2:05AM -0.09				2:09PM -0.09	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	4:29AM -0.16		n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	cloudy	light rain	mod. rain	light snow	light snow	cloudy	some clouds	clear	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	8	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	21	20	24	23	24	12	11	11	6	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	17	18	-1	-1	-1	-1
Chill °C (?)	21	20	24	23	24	9	8	8	3	-3	-5	-6	-6	-5	-4	-2	17	17	-8	-8	-8	-8
Sunrise	-	6:22	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:46	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:18	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	7:37	8:29	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:30	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:31
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.2 S	1.0 S	0.8 SSE	0.8 SSE	0.7 SSE	2.1 SSE	0.1 SW	-	1.8 SSE	0.9 S	0.3 S	0.1 S	0.1 SW	0.1 SW	0.1 SW	0.2 WSW	0.9 SE	1.0 S	-	-	0.1 W	0.1 W
Period (s)	6	6	6	6	6	7	8	-	8	6	6	5	10	10	10	5	5	5	-	-	6	6
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.3 ESE	0.3 ESE	0.3 ESE	0.3 ESE	0.3 ESE	-	-	-	-	0.4 SW	0.1 SW	0.1 S	0.1 S	0.1 S	0.1 S	-	0.2 ENE	0.2 ENE	0.1 S	-	-	-
Period (s)	8	8	8	8	8	-	-	-	-	6	6	9	10	10	10	-	5	5	9	-	-	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	2.4 SSE	2.5 SSE	3.0 SSE	0.8 WSW	1.7 W	1.7 W	2.1 W	2.5 W	2.5 W	2.4 W	1.9 NW	0.3 SSW	1.1 SSW	1.0 WNW	0.9 WNW	1.0 WNW	0.9 WNW
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	7	8	8	4	7	8	8	9	9	9	8	4	5	8	7	6	6

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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	Assateague Maryland	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	Sauble Beach Lake Huron	Naval Jetties Delaware	Assateague Maryland	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior
Rating	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	0	0	0
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.4 S	1.2 S	1.2 S	1.1 S	1.1 S	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.4 SSE	0.6 S	0.1 S	0.1 S	0.1 SW	0.1 SW
Period(s) (?)	6	6	6	6	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	6	8	8	8	8
Energy(?)	171	134	134	119	118	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	21	43	1	1	3	3
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	off	off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	cross- off	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off
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
Low Tide / height (m)	2:05AM -0.09					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	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	clear	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	light rain
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
High °C	22	21	21	21	20	6	8	9	10	11	11	12	12	12	12	13	23	23	12	12	11	11
Chill °C (?)	22	21	21	21	20	5	7	8	8	9	9	10	10	10	9	13	23	23	9	9	8	8
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	6:22	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:38	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.4 SE	1.2 S	1.2 S	1.1 S	1.1 S	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.4 SSE	0.6 S	0.1 S	0.1 S	0.1 SW	0.1 SW
Period (s)	8	6	6	6	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	6	8	8	8	8
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	0.3 ESE	0.3 ESE	0.3 ESE	0.3 ESE	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.2 ESE	0.3 ESE	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	8	8	8	8	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	8	-	-	-	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	1.4 S	-	-	-	-	0.5 E	0.5 E	0.6 E	0.6 E	0.6 E	0.6 E	0.7 SE	1.1 SE	1.5 SE	1.8 SE	-	-	-	2.5 SSE	2.5 SSE	2.5 SSE	3.0 SSE
Period (s)	6	-	-	-	-	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	6	6	-	-	-	8	8	8	8

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