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

	Thu		Friday 17			Saturday 18			Sunday 19			Monday 20			Tuesday 21			Wednesday 22			Thu
	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	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Chincoteague Virginia	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	Wolfe Island Lake Ontario	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
Rating	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	-	0.9 S	2.2 S	1.1 NE	1.0 ENE	1.1 SSW	0.8 WSW	0.6 W	0.4 W	0.7 NW	0.6 WNW	0.7 WNW	3.0 W	1.1 S	-	0.3 ENE	1.0 W	1.3 WNW	-	-	-	-
Period(s) (?)	-	4	7	8	9	6	6	7	6	4	5	5	9	6	-	9	7	6	-	-	-	-
Energy(?)	0	32	494	171	194	87	51	32	12	14	18	29	1586	79	0	19	154	136	0	0	0	0
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	on	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross	cross- on	cross- on	on	cross	cross- off	cross	cross- off	cross	cross	cross- on	off	cross- off	cross- off
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	some clouds	light rain	light rain	clear	clear	light rain	mod. rain	light rain	heavy rain	heavy rain	some clouds	cloudy	rain shwrs	mod. rain	mod. rain	clear	mod. rain	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	mod. rain
Rain (mm)	-	5	5	-	-	3	9	4	27	24	-	-	1	9	6	-	7	1	-	-	1	6
High °C	12	12	11	16	15	15	15	15	15	12	11	11	14	12	11	19	7	7	8	7	6	6
Low °C	12	11	10	14	12	15	14	15	14	11	10	10	13	11	9	18	6	6	8	6	5	6
Chill °C (?)	12	12	8	15	14	13	14	14	14	8	7	9	13	10	8	18	2	3	5	5	3	2
Sunrise	-	-	7:58	-	-	8:00	-	-	8:02	-	-	8:03	-	-	8:04	-	-	8:06	-	-	8:07	-
Sunset	6:50	-	-	6:21	-	-	6:45	-	-	6:44	-	-	6:14	-	-	6:15	-	-	6:38	-	-	6:37
Swell1 (m) & direction	-	-	-	1.1 NE	1.0 ENE	0.3 SSE	0.3 S	0.6 W	0.4 W	0.2 W	-	-	-	0.3 W	-	0.3 ENE	0.8 SSW	0.1 S	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	-	-	8	9	6	5	7	6	6	-	-	-	6	-	9	6	8	-	-	-	-
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	-	-	0.1 E	0.1 SE	-	0.2 SSW	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.1 SE	0.3 S	0.1 S	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	-	-	16	14	-	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9	6	6	-	-	-	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	0.9 S	2.2 S	-	-	1.1 SSW	0.8 WSW	-	0.4 N	0.7 NW	0.6 WNW	0.7 WNW	3.0 W	1.1 S	1.9 SSE	1.0 S	1.0 W	1.3 WNW	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	4	7	-	-	6	6	-	3	4	5	5	9	6	6	5	7	6	-	-	-	-

	Thursday 16	Friday 17	Saturday 18	Sun
	11AM	2PM	5PM	8PM	11PM	2AM	5AM	8AM	11AM	2PM	5PM	8PM	11PM	2AM	5AM	8AM	11AM	2PM	5PM	8PM	11PM	2AM
Best forecast wave conditions in Great Lakes	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	Assateague Maryland	Out Front Virginia	Chincoteague Virginia	Assateague Maryland	Assateague Maryland	Assateague Maryland	Assateague Maryland	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Bethany Delaware	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior
Rating	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	1	1	2	2	0	2	0	0
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	-	-	-	-	-	0.9 S	-	-	2.2 S	-	-	1.0 NE	0.7 ENE	1.1 ENE	0.9 ENE	0.9 ENE	1.0 ENE	1.1 E	0.8 WSW	0.9 E	0.6 W	0.6 W
Period(s) (?)	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	-	7	-	-	8	9	9	9	9	13	12	6	12	7	7
Energy(?)	0	0	0	0	0	32	0	0	494	0	0	181	96	225	143	143	363	334	51	227	38	32
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	glass	glass	on	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	off	off
Tide State(?)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	-	high	-	-
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	clear	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	light rain	cloudy	light rain	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	clear	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	clear	some clouds	light rain	some clouds	cloudy	light rain
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	1	4	-	1	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	1
Temp. °C	10	12	12	12	12	11	11	11	10	13	15	15	14	13	12	11	13	15	15	15	15	15
Chill °C (?)	10	12	12	12	11	9	8	8	7	10	13	14	13	12	10	10	12	15	14	14	14	15
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:58	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:11	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	6:50	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:47	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:45	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.0 NE	0.7 ENE	1.1 ENE	0.9 ENE	0.9 ENE	1.0 ENE	1.1 E	0.3 S	0.9 E	0.6 W	0.6 W
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	9	9	9	9	13	12	5	12	7	7
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.5 E	0.1 E	0.1 SE	0.1 SE	0.1 SE	-	0.1 E	0.2 SSW	0.2 ESE	-	-
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	10	15	14	13	13	-	10	5	12	-	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	0.5 SSE	0.9 S	1.6 S	2.0 S	2.2 S	2.4 SSE	2.4 SSE	0.6 NNW	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.8 WSW	-	0.3 WNW	-
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	3	4	6	7	7	7	8	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	-	6	-

	Thursday 16	Friday 17
	9AM	10AM	11AM	12PM	1PM	2PM	3PM	4PM	5PM	6PM	7PM	8PM	9PM	10PM	11PM	0AM	1AM	2AM	3AM	4AM	5AM	6AM
Best forecast wave conditions in Great Lakes	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	Assateague Maryland	Out Front Virginia	Chincoteague Virginia	Assateague Maryland	Assateague Maryland	Assateague Maryland	Assateague Maryland	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Bethany Delaware	Alona Bay Lake Superior	Alona Bay Lake Superior
Rating	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	1	1	2	2	0	2	0	0
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.7 E	0.7 E	0.6 E	1.6 NNE	1.6 NNE	0.5 E	0.5 E	1.1 S	0.9 NE	-	1.8 S
Period(s) (?)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9	9	9	5	6	9	9	5	7	-	6
Energy(?)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	133	83	67	197	217	46	47	57	147	0	251
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	off	glass	glass	glass	cross- on	glass	glass	glass	on	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	clear	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	cloudy	clear	cloudy	cloudy
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	8	9	10	11	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	14	13	13	12	11	10	10	11	10	11	11
Chill °C (?)	7	9	10	11	11	12	12	12	12	12	11	12	10	10	9	8	7	7	9	6	8	8
Sunrise	7:56	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:47	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.8 NE	0.7 E	0.6 E	0.6 E	0.5 E	0.5 E	0.5 E	-	0.9 NE	-	-
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7	9	9	9	9	9	9	-	7	-	-
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.7 E	0.1 E	0.1 E	0.1 E	0.1 E	0.1 E	0.1 E	-	0.4 E	-	-
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9	15	15	14	14	14	14	-	9	-	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.1 NNW	0.7 NNW	1.5 NNE	1.6 NNE	1.6 NNE	1.6 NNE	1.6 NNE	1.1 S	1.0 N	1.6 S	1.8 S
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	4	7	5	6	6	7	5	5	6	6

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