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 12			Monday 13			Tuesday 14			Wednesday 15			Thursday 16			Friday 17			Saturday 18			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	Apostle Islands Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Bethany Delaware	Assateague Maryland	Fenwick Delaware	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	The Cove Delaware Delaware	Grand Haven Lake Michigan	Assateague Maryland	Fenwick Delaware	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Union Bay Lake Superior	Union Bay Lake Superior	Assateague Maryland	Assateague Maryland	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior
Rating	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	1	1	1	0	1	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	-	-	1.7 S	0.4 E	1.3 S	1.2 S	-	-	0.3 ESE	0.9 SW	1.0 S	0.9 S	-	0.7 ENE	1.2 E	0.8 S	0.7 S	-	-	-	-	-
Period(s) (?)	-	-	7	9	5	6	-	-	9	5	5	6	-	6	5	6	6	-	-	-	-	-
Energy(?)	0	0	270	41	149	179	0	0	16	37	68	68	0	60	74	58	51	0	0	0	0	0
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	off	on	cross- off	cross- off	off	on	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	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	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	7:23AM 1.26	7:42PM 1.44	8:29PM 1.02	7:54AM 1.17		8:10PM 1.37	8:56AM 1.27	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a
Low Tide / height (m)	10:25AM 0.15	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	1:34PM -0.08		2:16AM -0.08		2:05PM -0.12	2:53AM -0.13		n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	mod. rain	rain shwrs	mod. rain	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	cloudy	light rain	clear	cloudy	clear	some clouds	mod. rain	light rain	some clouds	some clouds	clear	light rain	light rain	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds
Rain (mm)	7	1	7	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	6	4	-	-	-	2	1	-	-	-
High °C	3	10	8	20	24	22	4	7	25	10	26	25	5	5	7	25	26	11	4	1	0	-1
Low °C	3	10	6	15	23	20	3	7	21	7	26	23	4	5	4	20	26	4	1	0	-2	-4
Chill °C (?)	-3	7	5	20	24	22	1	6	25	9	26	25	2	3	5	25	26	9	1	-3	-4	-6
Sunrise	6:56	-	-	6:26	-	-	6:52	-	-	7:03	-	-	6:48	-	-	6:22	-	-	6:46	-	-	6:43
Sunset	-	7:45	-	-	7:34	-	-	8:24	-	-	7:36	-	-	8:46	-	-	7:37	-	-	8:30	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	-	-	1.7 S	0.4 E	0.4 ESE	0.8 SSE	-	-	0.3 ESE	-	0.3 ESE	0.3 ESE	-	0.5 E	-	0.8 S	0.4 SE	-	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	-	7	9	9	6	-	-	9	-	9	8	-	6	-	6	8	-	-	-	-	-
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	-	1.2 SSE	0.3 ESE	0.4 E	0.4 ESE	-	-	-	-	-	0.1 E	-	-	-	0.4 SE	-	-	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	-	8	9	9	9	-	-	-	-	-	11	-	-	-	8	-	-	-	-	-	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	2.5 SSE	-	-	1.1 S	1.3 S	1.2 S	0.4 ENE	-	0.8 S	0.9 SW	1.0 S	0.9 S	0.3 NE	0.7 ENE	1.2 E	-	0.7 S	2.3 SSE	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	8	-	-	5	5	6	4	-	6	5	5	6	3	6	5	-	6	7	-	-	-	-

	Sunday 12							Monday 13								Tuesday 14
	5AM	8AM	11AM	2PM	5PM	8PM	11PM	1AM	5AM	8AM	11AM	2PM	5PM	8PM	11PM	2AM	5AM	8AM	11AM	2PM	5PM	8PM
Best forecast wave conditions in Great Lakes	Assateague Maryland	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Keweenaw Peninsula Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Apostle Islands Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Bethany Delaware	Bethany Delaware	Indian River (Northside) Delaware	Assateague Maryland	Wedge Maryland	Assateague Maryland	Fenwick Delaware	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior
Rating	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	1	2	1	1	0	0	0
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.0 E	-	-	0.1 SW	0.1 SW	1.0 ESE	-	-	0.9 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.5 W	0.5 W	0.4 ESE	0.4 ESE	1.2 S	1.1 S	1.2 S	0.5 ESE	0.7 S	-	-	-
Period(s) (?)	10	-	-	8	8	8	-	-	6	6	6	6	9	10	6	6	6	10	6	-	-	-
Energy(?)	179	0	0	2	3	140	0	0	89	39	28	18	41	45	200	130	208	105	62	0	0	0
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross	cross	on	on	glass	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off
Tide State(?)	high	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	-	-	-
High Tide / height (m)	3:38AM 0.98	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a		5:28PM 1.11				5:32AM 1.07		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				11:35PM 0.12				n/a n/a	n/a n/a	n/a n/a
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	mod. rain	light rain	cloudy	light rain	rain shwrs	light rain	cloudy	light rain	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	cloudy	clear	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	light rain	light rain
Rain (mm)	-	6	1	-	1	1	2	-	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1
Temp. °C	12	3	3	3	5	10	7	6	7	3	2	3	24	22	21	20	20	19	22	7	7	6
Chill °C (?)	12	-3	-3	-3	0	7	3	1	5	1	0	3	24	22	21	20	20	19	22	6	4	4
Sunrise	-	6:56	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:54	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:26	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	8:37	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:34	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:24
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.0 E	-	-	0.1 SW	0.1 SW	1.0 ESE	2.3 SSE	-	0.9 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.5 W	0.5 W	0.4 ESE	0.4 ESE	0.9 SSE	0.4 ESE	1.0 S	0.5 ESE	0.7 S	-	-	-
Period (s)	10	-	-	8	8	8	8	-	6	6	6	6	9	10	6	10	6	10	6	-	-	-
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.6 SSE	0.4 SSE	0.4 SSW	0.2 SSW	0.3 E	0.3 E	0.4 ESE	0.2 E	0.4 ESE	0.1 E	0.4 ESE	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	6	6	5	9	9	10	8	10	8	10	-	-	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	2.0 SSE	2.5 SSE	3.0 SSE	3.0 SSE	1.6 SSE	-	-	0.5 W	0.5 W	-	-	1.1 S	1.0 S	1.2 S	1.1 S	1.2 S	0.9 S	0.9 S	0.3 ENE	-	-
Period (s)	-	6	8	8	8	8	-	-	4	5	-	-	5	6	6	6	6	6	6	3	-	-

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	3AM	4AM	5AM	6AM	7AM	8AM	9AM	9AM	11AM	12PM	1PM	2PM	3PM	4PM	5PM	6PM	7PM	8PM	9PM	10PM	11PM	0AM
Best forecast wave conditions in Great Lakes	Assateague Maryland	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Keweenaw Peninsula Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Apostle Islands Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Bethany Delaware	Bethany Delaware	Indian River (Northside) Delaware	Assateague Maryland	Wedge Maryland	Assateague Maryland	Fenwick Delaware	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior
Rating	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	1	2	1	1	0	0	0
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.1 E	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.1 SW	0.8 E	0.8 E	0.8 E	0.9 E	0.9 E	0.9 E	0.7 E	-	-	-
Period(s) (?)	10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	-	-	-
Energy(?)	220	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	113	109	111	150	147	150	94	0	0	0
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross	cross	cross- on	cross	cross	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
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
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	light rain	light rain	light snow	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy
Rain (mm)	-	1	3	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	13	2	2	2	2	4	3	7	3	3	3	3	11	11	12	12	12	13	13	7	7	7
Chill °C (?)	13	-2	-3	-4	-4	-1	-3	4	-3	-3	-3	-3	9	9	10	10	10	11	11	3	3	3
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	6:56	7:09	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:34	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.1 E	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.1 SW	0.8 E	0.8 E	0.8 E	0.9 E	0.9 E	0.9 E	0.7 E	2.4 SSE	2.3 SSE	2.1 S
Period (s)	10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	8	8	8
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.1 SE	0.1 SE	0.2 ESE	0.1 SE	0.1 SE	0.1 SE	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9	9	9	9	9	9	-	-	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	1.3 SSE	1.4 SSE	1.5 SSE	1.7 SSE	2.2 SSE	2.2 SSE	-	2.5 SSE	3.0 SSE	3.0 SSE	3.0 SSE	0.5 E	0.4 SE	0.4 SE	0.4 SE	0.6 SSE	0.6 SSE	0.6 SSE	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	6	6	6	6	7	7	-	8	8	8	8	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	-	-	-

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