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

	Tue		Wednesday 04			Thursday 05			Friday 06			Saturday 07			Sunday 08			Monday 09			Tue
	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 Japan	Tsurigasaki Surfing Beach (Tokyo 2020) Chiba	Cape Toi Kyu Shu	Katahama Shizuoka	Bowls Okinawa	Choshi Chiba	Choshi Chiba	Hebara Chiba	Fukuoka Kyu Shu	Aha Rivermouth Okinawa	Aoshima Kyu Shu	Hanamizu River Kanagawa	Hebara Chiba	Niijima - Awaii Izu Islands	Amatu Chiba	Tsurigasaki Surfing Beach (Tokyo 2020) Chiba	Kaiser's (Hachijojima Island) Izu Islands	Amatu Chiba	Golfcourse Kyu Shu	Gyongpo Beach South Korea	Busan (Haeundae Beach) South Korea	Amatu Chiba	Onjuku Chiba
Rating	4	4	2	2	4	4	4	1	2	1	2	4	3	3	2	3	1	1	2	2	1	2
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.6 NE	2.4 NE	1.3 ESE	2.1 N	2.1 ENE	1.9 ENE	1.7 ENE	0.8 NNE	1.2 ESE	1.0 S	0.9 S	2.3 SSW	3.0 W	1.0 ENE	1.3 ENE	2.3 NE	1.0 ENE	0.3 ENE	-	0.6 NE	1.0 NE	1.1 NE
Period(s) (?)	13	8	9	10	13	12	12	9	6	5	4	8	8	12	13	13	12	14	-	8	6	7
Energy(?)	1547	912	488	795	1725	1098	906	114	224	113	31	1041	1118	629	547	1847	259	56	0	50	144	166
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	on	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross	cross- off	cross	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross	off	cross	off	cross	off	off	off
High Tide / height (m)	5:58PM 1.89		6:53AM 2.02	5:14PM 1.43		9:00AM 0.61		7:25PM 2.03	8:36AM 1.93		9:07PM 1.77	9:11AM 1.84		6:35PM 1.13	6:06AM 1.29		7:15PM 1.03	6:25AM 1.28		9:08PM 1.07	7:02AM 1.36
Low Tide / height (m)		12:09AM 0.04			11:04PM 0.30		1:20PM 0.42	1:34AM 0.42		12:52PM 0.27		3:08AM 0.33	3:33PM 0.19	12:13AM 0.50		12:50PM 0.21	12:32AM 0.60		1:26PM 0.24	1:55AM 0.78		2:29PM 0.42
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	heavy rain	clear	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	clear	light rain	clear	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	clear	clear	cloudy	some clouds	light rain	clear	some clouds	cloudy
Rain (mm)	14	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	5	14	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	-	-
High °C	11	14	14	20	7	10	13	11	20	12	13	14	12	10	9	11	10	15	3	5	10	11
Low °C	10	11	11	19	6	7	12	10	20	12	11	14	12	6	6	10	7	10	3	4	8	9
Chill °C (?)	7	12	14	20	2	8	11	11	20	9	11	11	8	7	7	8	9	14	-2	1	7	8
Sunrise	-	-	6:13	-	-	6:01	-	-	6:46	-	-	6:01	-	-	5:58	-	-	6:33	-	-	5:58	-
Sunset	5:35	-	-	6:30	-	-	5:36	-	-	6:14	-	-	5:43	-	-	5:42	-	-	6:23	-	-	5:40
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.6 NE	0.8 ESE	1.3 ESE	0.4 ESE	2.1 ENE	1.9 ENE	1.7 ENE	0.8 NNE	1.2 ESE	1.0 S	0.1 SE	1.3 ENE	0.9 ENE	1.0 ENE	1.3 ENE	2.3 NE	1.0 ENE	0.4 SE	-	0.6 NE	0.5 ENE	0.5 E
Period (s)	13	9	9	9	13	12	12	9	6	5	7	12	12	12	13	13	12	8	-	8	10	10
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	0.3 WSW	1.3 SSE	0.1 NE	0.7 SE	0.5 SE	0.6 SE	0.6 NNE	0.5 NE	0.4 ESE	0.1 SE	-	0.6 ENE	0.9 SW	0.3 S	1.8 WNW	0.2 SSW	0.3 ENE	-	0.1 SW	0.1 SE	0.2 SSE
Period (s)	-	9	8	14	9	8	8	4	14	8	7	-	15	8	6	8	5	14	-	6	5	10
Wind waves (m) & direction	2.5 E	2.4 NE	1.6 W	2.1 N	1.0 NNW	0.4 WNW	0.4 NNW	0.1 SW	-	1.4 SW	0.9 S	2.3 SSW	3.0 W	0.9 NE	0.8 N	-	-	-	1.2 NE	1.1 NE	1.0 NE	1.1 NE
Period (s)	7	8	7	10	4	3	3	4	-	5	4	8	8	5	4	-	-	-	8	6	6	7

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	12PM	3PM	6PM	9PM	0AM	3AM	6AM	9AM	12PM	3PM	6PM	9PM	0AM	3AM	6AM	9AM	12PM	3PM	6PM	9PM	0AM	3AM
Best forecast wave conditions in Japan	Yasuda Rivermouth Shikoku	Ikumi Beach Shikoku	Cape Toi Kyu Shu	Amatu Chiba	Tsurigasaki Surfing Beach (Tokyo 2020) Chiba	Busan (Haeundae Beach) South Korea	Cape Toi Kyu Shu	Cape Toi Kyu Shu	Buma Okinawa	Katahama Shizuoka	Californias Okinawa	Bowls Okinawa	Bowls Okinawa	Choshi Chiba	Choshi Chiba	Choshi Chiba	Choshi Chiba	Choshi Chiba	Choshi Chiba	Kaiser's (Hachijojima Island) Izu Islands	Hebara Chiba	Onjuku Chiba
Rating	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	2	3	2	2	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	3.5 SE	2.5 SE	2.1 NNE	1.2 ENE	1.4 ENE	2.5 NE	2.2 NNE	2.3 NNE	2.4 N	1.4 SE	2.0 N	1.7 N	1.7 N	2.1 ENE	1.9 ENE	1.9 ENE	2.0 ENE	2.1 ENE	2.1 ENE	2.5 NE	1.9 ENE	2.0 ENE
Period(s) (?)	9	9	8	14	14	9	8	8	10	9	9	9	9	13	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12
Energy(?)	1720	1445	1031	1043	1317	1572	1011	1131	1112	272	677	482	462	1508	1134	1098	1254	1302	1294	2117	1076	1147
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	off	off	off	off	off	off	off	off	cross- off	glass	cross- off	cross- off
Tide State(?)	-	mid-flow	high-flow	mid-ebb	low	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	mid-flow	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	high	low	mid-flow
High Tide / height (m)								6:53AM 2.02				8:01PM 1.91			5:12AM 1.25				5:17PM 1.28	6:32PM 1.43
Low Tide / height (m)					10:34PM 0.21	2:00AM 0.09											11:12AM 0.34				11:47PM 0.41
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	light rain	light rain	clear	mod. rain	light rain	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	cloudy	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	cloudy	cloudy
Rain (mm)	1	1	-	6	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	17	16	17	12	12	5	11	12	19	15	19	18	18	6	6	7	10	12	12	12	10	10
Chill °C (?)	16	15	16	11	11	2	9	11	18	14	18	17	17	2	2	3	8	10	10	12	8	8
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:39	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:01	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	6:13	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:44	6:30	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:34	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	3.5 SE	2.5 SE	1.6 NE	2.0 E	1.4 ENE	1.9 NE	1.7 NNE	1.5 NNE	0.4 ESE	1.4 SE	0.4 ESE	1.7 N	1.7 N	2.1 ENE	1.9 ENE	1.9 ENE	2.0 ENE	2.1 ENE	2.1 ENE	2.5 NE	1.9 ENE	2.0 ENE
Period (s)	9	9	7	7	14	9	8	8	9	9	9	9	9	13	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.7 SW	1.4 SSW	1.4 SE	1.2 ENE	-	-	0.7 ESE	0.7 NE	0.1 NE	0.1 E	0.2 ENE	0.2 ENE	0.1 NE	0.7 SE	0.6 SE	0.5 SE	0.5 SE	0.4 SE	0.4 SE	1.3 WNW	0.5 SE	0.4 SE
Period (s)	8	8	8	14	-	-	9	9	14	15	12	13	13	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	1.0 NNE	2.1 NNE	0.9 S	2.3 ESE	2.5 NE	2.2 NNE	2.3 NNE	2.4 N	2.4 W	2.0 N	0.9 ENE	0.5 E	1.1 NW	0.6 WNW	0.4 WNW	0.6 NW	-	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	4	8	7	8	9	8	8	10	7	9	5	9	4	3	3	4	-	-	-	-	-

	Tuesday 03														Wednesday 04
	10AM	11AM	12PM	1PM	2PM	3PM	4PM	5PM	6PM	7PM	8PM	9PM	10PM	11PM	0AM	1AM	2AM	3AM	4AM	5AM	6AM	7AM
Best forecast wave conditions in Japan	Yasuda Rivermouth Shikoku	Ikumi Beach Shikoku	Cape Toi Kyu Shu	Amatu Chiba	Tsurigasaki Surfing Beach (Tokyo 2020) Chiba	Busan (Haeundae Beach) South Korea	Cape Toi Kyu Shu	Cape Toi Kyu Shu	Buma Okinawa	Katahama Shizuoka	Californias Okinawa	Bowls Okinawa	Bowls Okinawa	Choshi Chiba	Choshi Chiba	Choshi Chiba	Choshi Chiba	Choshi Chiba	Choshi Chiba	Kaiser's (Hachijojima Island) Izu Islands	Hebara Chiba	Onjuku Chiba
Rating	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	2	3	2	2	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	3.5 SE	3.5 SE	1.7 SE	2.4 E	1.7 NE	2.5 NE	2.0 NNE	2.0 NNE	3.5 NNW	1.3 S	3.0 NNW	3.0 NNW	3.0 NNW	2.0 ENE	2.0 ENE	2.0 ENE	1.8 ENE	1.8 ENE	1.8 ENE	2.2 NE	3.0 SE	3.0 SE
Period(s) (?)	9	9	8	7	13	9	7	8	10	8	10	10	10	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	9	9
Energy(?)	3800	1755	461	968	1743	1095	950	968	2126	234	1934	1982	1991	3326	3326	3326	1662	2334	2334	2933	2791	2615
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	off	cross	cross- off	cross	on	cross- off	off	off	cross- off	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	off
High Tide / height (m)											7:25PM 1.91										5:19AM 1.38
Low Tide / height (m)														10:32PM 0.10
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	light rain	light rain	some clouds	light rain	light rain	some clouds	clear	clear	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	light rain	light rain	light rain	light rain	light rain	cloudy	light rain	light rain
Rain (mm)	1	2	-	4	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	3	2	2	2	2	-	1	1
High °C	17	15	18	10	10	9	19	18	18	10	18	18	18	13	13	14	13	11	9	11	5	5
Chill °C (?)	16	14	18	6	6	5	19	18	17	6	17	17	17	10	11	12	11	8	5	6	-2	-2
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:05
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:30	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	3.5 SE	3.5 SE	1.7 SE	1.1 NE	1.7 NE	0.2 SSW	1.6 NE	1.6 NE	0.5 E	1.3 S	0.4 ESE	0.4 ESE	0.4 ESE	1.7 ENE	1.7 ENE	1.7 ENE	2.0 ESE	2.0 ESE	2.0 ESE	2.5 SE	3.0 SE	3.0 SE
Period (s)	9	9	8	13	13	8	7	7	9	8	9	9	9	14	14	14	8	8	8	8	9	9
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	-	0.8 WSW	-	-	-	1.4 SE	1.4 SE	0.1 NE	0.8 SSW	0.1 E	0.1 E	0.1 E	2.0 ENE	2.0 ENE	2.0 ENE	1.8 ENE	1.8 ENE	1.8 ENE	2.2 NE	1.5 ENE	1.5 ENE
Period (s)	-	-	8	-	-	-	8	8	16	10	10	10	10	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14
Wind waves (m) & direction	3.5 SE	-	1.0 NE	2.4 E	2.5 E	2.5 NE	2.0 NNE	2.0 NNE	3.5 NNW	2.5 ENE	3.0 NNW	3.0 NNW	3.0 NNW	2.1 E	2.1 E	2.1 E	-	2.4 SE	2.4 SE	1.6 NW	0.8 NNW	0.8 NNW
Period (s)	9	-	6	7	7	9	7	8	10	7	10	10	10	8	8	8	-	8	8	5	4	4

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