Monterey Surf

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

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Monterey Surf Forecast map for predicting the best wave and wind conditions across the region. For surfers, the map shows the most powerful swell tracking across near-shore open water and not the peak waves experienced by boats out at sea. Move your mouse over the ocean swell symbols or the surf breaks on the coastline to see a more detailed surf forecast including wave period and wind conditions. The forecast updates every 6 hours and most live weather reports update every hour. You can animate the Monterey Surf map or show live wind and wave conditions as reported from wavebuoys and local weather stations. Surf breaks shown along the Monterey coastline are also listed below.

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7 day 48 hour

	Sun	Monday 07			Tuesday 08			Wednesday 09			Thursday 10			Friday 11			Saturday 12			Sunday 13
	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night
Best forecast wave conditions in Monterey	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Arroyo Laguna CAL - San Luis Obispo	Sand Dollar Beach CAL - Monterey	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Cayucos Pier CAL - San Luis Obispo	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Arroyo Laguna CAL - San Luis Obispo	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Cayucos Pier CAL - San Luis Obispo	Cayucos Pier CAL - San Luis Obispo	Willow Creek CAL - Monterey	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Arroyo Laguna CAL - San Luis Obispo	Fullers CAL - Monterey	Arroyo Laguna CAL - San Luis Obispo	Arroyo Laguna CAL - San Luis Obispo	Sand Dollar Beach CAL - Monterey	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey
Rating	3	2	3	3	1	1	2	1	0	3	2	2	4	3	3	3	2	3	3	2	3	3
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.8 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.6 S	0.5 SSW	0.5 S	1.9 WNW	2.0 NW	2.1 NW	2.5 NW	2.4 NW	2.2 NW	1.9 NW	1.3 WNW	1.3 WNW	1.1 WNW	1.1 WNW	1.2 WNW	1.6 NW
Period(s) (?)	16	16	15	14	14	14	13	13	13	7	8	8	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	10	10	10
Energy(?)	341	263	370	350	276	201	126	98	86	332	532	602	945	968	777	612	274	305	217	226	272	490
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	glass	on	glass	cross- off	on	cross- on	cross- off	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross	cross	glass	on	cross	cross- off	on	glass	glass	on	glass	glass
High Tide / height (m)		10:30AM	7:44PM	8:23PM	11:04AM		8:56PM	11:41AM		9:48PM	12:21PM		10:21PM	12:55PM		11:01PM	1:28PM	10:30AM	3:24PM		3:49AM	3:51PM
Low Tide / height (m)	3:29AM	2:00PM		4:07AM		2:30PM	4:38AM		3:28PM		5:21AM 3:29AM	4:10PM		5:57AM	4:54PM		6:33AM	5:43PM		10:40PM	8:46AM
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	clear	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	15	16	16	15	18	18	16	24	22	20	22	22	17	20	17	15	17	20	14	19	18	16
Low °C	13	13	16	13	16	18	15	18	22	18	20	22	16	16	17	13	13	20	13	15	17	15
Chill °C (?)	14	16	16	15	18	18	16	24	22	20	22	22	17	20	17	14	17	20	14	19	18	16
Sunrise	-	5:54	-	-	5:56	-	-	5:56	-	-	5:58	-	-	5:56	-	-	5:58	-	-	5:58	-	-
Sunset	-	-	8:24	-	-	8:27	-	-	8:27	-	-	8:27	-	-	8:23	-	-	8:24	-	-	8:22	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.8 WNW	0.9 WNW	0.9 SSW	1.1 NW	0.9 WNW	0.8 WNW	0.8 WNW	0.5 SSW	0.5 NW	1.3 WNW	1.7 NW	1.8 NW	2.0 WNW	1.8 WNW	1.7 WNW	1.9 NW	1.3 WNW	1.3 WNW	1.1 WNW	1.1 WNW	1.2 WNW	1.6 NW
Period (s)	7	10	15	9	9	8	8	13	8	7	8	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	10	10	10
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.8 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.8 WNW	0.9 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.6 S	0.4 SW	0.5 S	0.4 SW	0.5 SW	0.4 SSW	0.5 SW	0.6 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.6 S	0.5 SSW
Period (s)	16	16	9	14	14	14	13	16	13	16	16	19	19	17	17	17	16	16	15	15	17	14
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.9 WNW	0.8 NW	1.9 WNW	2.0 NW	2.1 NW	2.5 NW	2.4 NW	2.2 NW	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	4	7	8	8	9	9	9	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

	Sun	Monday 07	Tuesday 08

Best forecast wave conditions in Monterey	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Arroyo Laguna CAL - San Luis Obispo	Arroyo Laguna CAL - San Luis Obispo	Arroyo Laguna CAL - San Luis Obispo	Sand Dollar Beach CAL - Monterey	Cayucos Pier CAL - San Luis Obispo	Cayucos Pier CAL - San Luis Obispo	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey
Rating	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	3	3	3	3	2	2	1	1	1	2	2
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.7 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.7 SSW	1.0 S	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.7 S	0.7 S
Period(s) (?)	17	16	16	16	16	16	16	15	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	13	13
Energy(?)	290	346	341	337	341	263	496	370	350	350	350	276	276	276	213	201	173	171
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross- off	glass	glass	glass	on	cross- on	glass	glass	glass	cross- off	cross- off	glass	on	on	cross- on	glass	cross- off
Tide State(?)	high	mid-ebb	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	low	mid-flow	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	mid-flow	high	low	mid-flow	high
High Tide / height (m)	7:44PM 2.03					10:28AM 1.00				8:36PM 1.67					11:10AM 1.47			9:03PM 2.15
Low Tide / height (m)				3:29AM 0.36			1:47PM 0.89					4:07AM 0.27				2:45PM 1.29
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	15	14	13	13	13	16	17	16	14	12	13	13	16	18	18	18	15	15
Chill °C (?)	14	13	13	13	13	16	17	16	14	12	13	13	16	18	18	18	15	15
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	5:54	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:56	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	8:28	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:21	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:27	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.1 NW	1.0 NW	0.8 WNW	1.1 NW	0.8 SSW	0.9 WNW	1.0 S	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	1.1 NW	0.9 WNW	0.9 WNW	0.9 WNW	0.9 NW	0.8 WNW	0.8 WNW	0.8 WNW
Period (s)	7	7	7	10	16	10	16	15	14	14	9	9	9	9	8	8	8	8
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.7 S	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.7 S	0.7 SSW	0.8 WNW	0.8 WNW	0.8 WNW	0.8 WNW	0.9 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.7 S	0.7 S
Period (s)	13	16	16	16	13	16	10	9	9	9	14	14	14	14	14	14	13	13
Wind waves (m) & direction	1.3 NW	1.2 NW	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	7	7	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Monterey Surf Breaks

Andrew Molera State Park

beach and point

beach and reef

sandbar

sandbar

reef

beach

reef

point

beach

beach

beach

Salinas River State Beach

beach

Sand Dollar Beach

beach

Spanish Bay-Cobblestones

beach

Spanish Bay-Dunes

beach and reef

Spanish Bay-South Moss

beach

Willow Creek

reef

Zmudowski State Beach

beach

Monterey holds a wide variety of sand and reef breaks and picks up on good amounts of swell. Moss is renowned for world class waves on its day. Local knowledge really comes into play on this jagged piece of coastline, as although you'd imagine barrel after barrel to be screaming in to most coves/beaches, they are actually quite few and far between as the whole coastlines goes, so living locally is the best way to score the waves we all want, as they do exist! Highway 1 will provide access to most breaks. Spanish Bay is another epic wave on its day which holds some decent sized swell. Willow Creek further south also holds surf several feet over head. There are sneaky breaks up and down that can provide some fantastic surf with plenty of places to park, eat and sleep. If you like taking photo's then this piece of coastline is pretty breathless.

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