Japan Surf

Detailed Japan 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 Japan. 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 Japan. Our local Wavefinder indicates where some of the best conditions are likely to be found in Japan over the next 7 days. Surf photos from Japan and reviews of the best spots and surfing conditions have been provided by local surfers.

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Japan Wavefinder

Long range 3-hourly Hourly

	Saturday 18			Sunday 19			Monday 20			Tuesday 21			Wednesday 22			Thursday 23			Friday 24			Sat
	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 Japan	Yasuda Rivermouth Shikoku	Tsurigasaki Surfing Beach (Tokyo 2020) Chiba	Akabane Long Beach Shizuoka	Asakawa Shikoku	Mera Chiba	Hakashita Kyu Shu	Nagata Kyu Shu	Chokusen Kyu Shu	Castles Okinawa	Kamogawa Chiba	Amatu Chiba	Dead Man's Land Shikoku	Aoshima Harbour Kyu Shu	Aoshima Harbour Kyu Shu	Aoshima Harbour Kyu Shu	Niyodo Rivermouth Shikoku	Corners Okinawa	Kangjeong (Jejudo Island) South Korea	Kangjeong (Jejudo Island) South Korea	Kangjeong (Jejudo Island) South Korea	Akabane Long Beach Shizuoka	Omaezaki Shizuoka
Rating	5	4	4	4	5	4	4	4	3	4	3	2	3	2	2	3	2	3	4	2	2	3
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	2.3 SE	2.0 SSE	2.1 SSE	2.1 SE	2.5 SE	2.2 ESE	2.2 ESE	2.0 ESE	1.5 E	2.0 ESE	2.0 ESE	1.0 ESE	1.3 E	1.3 E	1.0 E	1.0 E	1.3 SSW	2.2 ENE	2.1 ENE	2.1 ENE	2.5 ESE	2.1 SSW
Period(s) (?)	16	16	15	14	14	14	13	13	13	12	11	11	12	12	11	11	5	8	8	8	8	8
Energy(?)	2759	2381	1937	1816	2840	1945	1585	1421	751	1119	1003	317	502	527	458	423	95	567	627	1087	1161	636
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	glass	cross- off	on	cross- off	off	cross	cross- off	on	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- on	cross- off	off	off	cross- on	off
High Tide / height (m)		5:23PM 1.49		4:22AM 1.56		7:39PM 1.87	7:53AM 1.90		7:03PM 1.38	5:17AM 1.56		9:13PM 1.57	9:24AM 1.87		10:42PM 1.49	8:49AM 1.57		11:54PM 1.13	7:53AM 1.18		1:11AM 1.40	11:38AM 1.33
Low Tide / height (m)	11:25AM 0.02		11:14PM 0.58	11:18AM -0.01		1:17AM 0.75		2:35PM -0.08	11:50PM 0.97		3:20PM 0.01	2:18AM 1.05	3:44AM 0.94	3:21PM 0.21		3:29AM 1.17	2:55PM 0.11	1:57AM 1.12				6:39AM 1.12
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	clear	cloudy	rain shwrs	clear	clear	some clouds	light rain	light rain	heavy rain	risk thund- der	cloudy	cloudy	clear	heavy rain	light rain
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	7	2	-	-	4	-	-	-	3	3	30	6	-	-	-	18	4
High °C	18	17	17	20	18	18	21	21	21	17	22	15	19	19	19	18	24	15	15	17	12	12
Low °C	18	17	16	19	17	17	20	21	20	14	16	13	18	19	19	18	24	14	14	17	11	12
Chill °C (?)	18	16	17	20	18	18	21	21	21	16	22	15	19	19	19	18	24	13	14	17	10	9
Sunrise	5:31	-	-	5:28	-	-	5:41	-	-	5:01	-	-	5:37	-	-	5:26	-	-	5:54	-	-	5:03
Sunset	-	6:13	-	-	6:15	-	-	6:45	-	-	6:15	-	-	6:46	-	-	6:55	-	-	7:09	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	2.3 SE	2.0 SSE	2.1 SSE	2.1 SE	2.5 SE	2.2 ESE	2.2 ESE	2.0 ESE	1.5 E	2.0 ESE	2.0 ESE	1.0 ESE	1.3 E	1.3 E	1.0 SE	1.0 E	0.6 E	0.4 SSE	0.3 S	1.8 ENE	1.5 S	2.1 SSW
Period (s)	16	16	15	14	14	14	13	13	13	12	11	11	12	12	6	11	11	7	7	8	9	8
Swell2 (m) & direction	1.3 ESE	1.4 E	0.2 E	0.2 ENE	0.7 ENE	0.3 ENE	0.3 ENE	0.6 SSE	0.3 NE	0.1 NE	0.1 NE	0.3 SE	0.4 SE	0.4 SE	1.0 E	0.9 S	0.3 SE	0.2 NNW	0.1 SE	0.4 S	-	0.8 E
Period (s)	8	11	11	11	10	11	11	5	11	13	12	15	14	14	11	6	13	6	13	8	-	5
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	1.0 ENE	-	-	-	0.9 NW	-	1.0 NE	0.4 NNE	-	-	1.1 SE	1.2 S	1.3 SSW	2.2 ENE	2.1 ENE	2.1 ENE	2.5 ESE	-
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	10	-	-	-	6	-	4	4	-	-	6	6	5	8	8	8	8	-

	Saturday 18								Sunday 19								Monday 20
	0AM	3AM	6AM	9AM	12PM	3PM	6PM	9PM	0AM	3AM	6AM	9AM	12PM	3PM	6PM	9PM	0AM	3AM	6AM	9AM	12PM	3PM
Best forecast wave conditions in Japan	Inamura Point Kanagawa	Tsurigasaki Surfing Beach (Tokyo 2020) Chiba	Amatu Chiba	Tsurigasaki Surfing Beach (Tokyo 2020) Chiba	Tsurigasaki Surfing Beach (Tokyo 2020) Chiba	Yasuda Rivermouth Shikoku	Ada Okinawa	Ada Okinawa	Tsurigasaki Surfing Beach (Tokyo 2020) Chiba	Tsurigasaki Surfing Beach (Tokyo 2020) Chiba	Ada Okinawa	Akabane Long Beach Shizuoka	Castles Okinawa	Asakawa Shikoku	Asakawa Shikoku	Asakawa Shikoku	Mera Chiba	Malibu Chiba	Amatu Chiba	Hakashita Kyu Shu	Nagata Kyu Shu	Nagata Kyu Shu
Rating	4	4	5	4	4	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	4	4	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.5 SSE	2.1 SSE	2.3 SSE	2.1 SSE	2.1 SSE	2.5 SE	1.6 ESE	1.6 ESE	2.1 SSE	2.1 SSE	1.6 ESE	2.0 SSE	1.8 ESE	2.1 SE	2.2 SE	2.5 ESE	3.0 SE	3.0 SE	2.5 SE	2.2 ESE	2.0 ESE	2.0 ESE
Period(s) (?)	16	16	16	16	16	16	15	14	15	15	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	13	13	13
Energy(?)	1165	2732	3281	2698	2615	3103	1417	1330	2118	2085	1115	1621	1530	1739	1918	4707	3110	3127	2825	1714	1401	1336
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	glass	cross- off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	cross- off	off	glass	off	glass	cross- off	glass	off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	cross- off	cross- off
Tide State(?)	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	low	mid-flow	high	low	mid-flow	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	low	mid-flow	high	high	mid-ebb	low
High Tide / height (m)			4:21AM 1.42					7:40PM 1.88				6:06AM 1.76				7:40PM 1.84			5:20AM 1.45	7:05AM 1.95
Low Tide / height (m)	10:59PM 0.63				10:40AM 0.07	12:22PM 0.04			10:47PM 0.76					12:58PM -0.04			11:49PM 0.72					2:03PM -0.01
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	clear	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	some clouds
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	-
Temp. °C	13	14	15	16	17	18	22	22	16	16	21	17	22	19	18	17	17	16	15	19	21	21
Chill °C (?)	13	14	15	16	17	18	22	22	16	16	21	17	22	19	18	17	17	16	14	19	21	21
Sunrise	-	-	5:03	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:01	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:51	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:35	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.5 SSE	2.1 SSE	2.3 SSE	2.1 SSE	2.1 SSE	2.5 SE	1.6 ESE	1.6 ESE	2.1 SSE	2.1 SSE	1.6 ESE	2.0 SSE	1.8 ESE	2.1 SE	2.2 SE	2.3 SE	3.0 SE	3.0 SE	2.5 SE	2.2 ESE	2.0 ESE	2.0 ESE
Period (s)	16	16	16	16	16	16	15	14	15	15	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	13	13	13
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.3 ENE	1.6 E	1.5 E	1.5 E	1.4 E	0.2 E	1.3 ENE	1.1 ENE	1.0 E	1.0 E	0.7 ENE	-	0.8 ENE	0.1 E	-	-	0.4 ENE	0.5 ENE	0.4 ENE	0.3 ENE	0.3 ENE	0.3 ENE
Period (s)	12	10	11	11	11	12	11	10	11	10	9	-	12	11	-	-	10	10	10	10	11	11
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.4 NW	-	-	-	-	2.5 ESE	-	-	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	-	-	-	-	14	-	-	-	-	-	-

	Fri		Saturday 18
	10PM	11PM	0AM	1AM	2AM	3AM	4AM	5AM	6AM	7AM	8AM	9AM	10AM	11AM	12PM	1PM	2PM	3PM	4PM	5PM	6PM	7PM
Best forecast wave conditions in Japan	Inamura Point Kanagawa	Tsurigasaki Surfing Beach (Tokyo 2020) Chiba	Amatu Chiba	Tsurigasaki Surfing Beach (Tokyo 2020) Chiba	Tsurigasaki Surfing Beach (Tokyo 2020) Chiba	Yasuda Rivermouth Shikoku	Ada Okinawa	Ada Okinawa	Tsurigasaki Surfing Beach (Tokyo 2020) Chiba	Tsurigasaki Surfing Beach (Tokyo 2020) Chiba	Ada Okinawa	Akabane Long Beach Shizuoka	Castles Okinawa	Asakawa Shikoku	Asakawa Shikoku	Asakawa Shikoku	Mera Chiba	Malibu Chiba	Amatu Chiba	Hakashita Kyu Shu	Nagata Kyu Shu	Nagata Kyu Shu
Rating	4	4	5	4	4	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	4	4	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.5 SSE	2.0 SSE	2.3 SSE	2.0 SSE	2.1 SSE	2.3 SE	2.0 ESE	1.9 ESE	2.1 SSE	2.1 SSE	1.8 ESE	2.3 SSE	2.4 ESE	2.4 SE	2.4 SE	2.4 SE	2.2 SSE	2.3 SSE	2.2 SSE	2.2 SE	2.2 SE	2.2 SE
Period(s) (?)	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	15	16	15	16	16	16	15	16	15	15	15	15
Energy(?)	1206	2562	3433	2502	2663	2929	1899	1940	2670	2680	1728	2685	2748	3076	3040	3040	2643	3020	2757	2373	2290	2262
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- on	cross	on	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross	cross	glass	glass	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- on	cross- on	on	cross- on	cross- on	on	glass	cross- off	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)
Low Tide / height (m)		10:14PM 0.65														12:19PM 0.02
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	13	14	14	14	14	18	22	22	15	15	22	15	23	17	17	18	17	17	17	19	19	19
Chill °C (?)	13	13	14	13	14	18	22	22	15	15	22	15	23	17	17	18	17	17	17	19	19	19
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:01	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:45	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.5 SSE	2.0 SSE	2.3 SSE	2.0 SSE	2.1 SSE	2.3 SE	2.0 ESE	1.9 ESE	2.1 SSE	2.1 SSE	1.8 ESE	2.3 SSE	2.4 ESE	2.4 SE	2.4 SE	2.4 SE	2.2 SSE	2.3 SSE	2.2 SSE	2.2 SE	2.2 SE	2.2 SE
Period (s)	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	15	16	15	16	16	16	15	16	15	15	15	15
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.4 E	1.6 E	1.7 ENE	1.6 E	1.6 E	1.6 ESE	0.3 N	1.2 E	1.5 E	1.5 E	1.2 E	0.2 E	0.3 ENE	0.3 ENE	0.3 ENE	0.3 ENE	1.3 E	1.4 ENE	1.4 ENE	1.0 E	0.4 ENE	0.4 ENE
Period (s)	11	10	11	10	10	8	7	8	10	10	8	12	13	12	12	12	11	11	11	8	12	12
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.5 S	0.5 S	-	-	-	-	-	1.4 ESE	1.4 ESE	1.4 ESE	-	-	-	-	1.1 E	1.1 E
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	3	-	-	-	-	-	8	8	8	-	-	-	-	8	8

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