Orange County Surf

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

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Orange County 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 Orange County Surf map or show live wind and wave conditions as reported from wavebuoys and local weather stations. Surf breaks shown along the Orange County coastline are also listed below.

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Orange County Wavefinder

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	Wednesday 12			Thursday 13			Friday 14			Saturday 15			Sunday 16			Monday 17			Tuesday 18			Wed
	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 Orange County	Blackies CAL - Orange County	San Onofre CAL - Orange County	San Onofre CAL - Orange County	Ben Weston (Catalina Island) CAL - Orange County	San Onofre CAL - Orange County	San Onofre CAL - Orange County	Exiles CAL - LA County	El Porto Beach CAL - LA County	San Onofre CAL - Orange County	San Onofre CAL - Orange County	Exiles CAL - LA County	Ben Weston (Catalina Island) CAL - Orange County	El Porto Beach CAL - LA County	San Onofre CAL - Orange County	Palos Verde - Bluff Cove CAL - LA County	San Onofre CAL - Orange County	Abalone Cove CAL - LA County	San Onofre - Trails CAL - Orange County	San Onofre CAL - Orange County	Abalone Cove CAL - LA County	South Carlsbad State Beach CAL - San Diego County	Ben Weston (Catalina Island) CAL - Orange County
Rating	2	2	2	2	2	3	2	3	3	2	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	2	1
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.7 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	1.3 SW	0.8 W	1.2 WSW	0.8 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.5 SSW	0.4 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.4 SW	0.4 SW	1.1 S	1.3 SSW	1.3 SW	0.7 W	0.6 SSW	0.8 W
Period(s) (?)	15	14	14	17	16	16	8	14	14	14	14	13	13	13	13	18	5	6	6	8	15	11
Energy(?)	221	392	439	331	460	445	515	577	912	584	250	201	122	243	73	194	114	239	267	129	267	224
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	on	cross- on	glass	cross- off	on	glass	off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	off	cross- off	off	cross- on	cross	cross	cross- on	cross- on	cross	on	cross- off	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)		2:53PM 1.34		5:29AM 1.39	4:24PM 1.65		5:42AM 1.93	5:15PM 1.26		5:52AM 1.59	6:07PM 1.24		6:34AM 2.07			6:40AM 1.73		8:14PM 1.15	7:03AM 1.76		8:12PM 1.15	7:44AM 2.20
Low Tide / height (m)			10:08PM 0.49	11:15AM 0.66		11:03PM 0.16	11:58AM 0.86		11:27PM 0.26	12:27PM 0.30		11:57PM 0.34		1:35PM 0.15	12:23AM 0.43		1:36PM 0.05	1:14AM 0.55		2:08PM -0.03	1:11AM 0.59
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	cloudy	some clouds	clear	some clouds	cloudy	light rain	light rain	mod. rain	mod. rain	rain shwrs	risk thund- der	rain shwrs	light rain	rain shwrs	light rain	light rain	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	mod. rain	rain shwrs	rain shwrs
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	1	3	7	9	17	4	10	1	2	5	3	10	10	2	9	8	4
High °C	19	19	19	18	19	19	18	18	18	17	18	18	18	18	16	17	16	16	16	15	15	16
Low °C	18	18	18	18	19	18	18	17	18	16	18	17	17	17	16	17	15	15	16	15	14	16
Chill °C (?)	19	19	19	18	19	19	17	17	18	17	18	17	18	18	15	16	14	16	16	14	14	15
Sunrise	6:20	-	-	6:22	-	-	6:24	-	-	6:20	-	-	6:26	-	-	6:22	-	-	6:22	-	-	6:28
Sunset	-	4:49	-	-	4:49	-	-	4:51	-	-	4:50	-	-	4:46	-	-	4:49	-	-	4:47	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.7 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	1.3 SW	1.0 SW	1.2 WSW	1.2 SSW	0.7 W	0.7 W	0.5 W	0.7 SSW	0.4 SSW	0.8 SW	0.3 SSW	1.3 SSW	0.4 WNW	0.7 SW	1.0 WSW	0.8 W
Period (s)	15	14	14	17	16	16	8	8	14	6	11	10	9	13	7	7	12	6	12	6	7	11
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.4 W	0.4 SSW	0.5 SSW	0.4 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.8 W	0.9 SSW	0.8 W	0.6 SSW	0.5 SSW	0.4 SSW	0.4 WSW	0.4 SW	0.4 SSW	0.2 SSW	0.4 SSW	0.4 SW	0.7 W	0.6 SSW	0.4 SW
Period (s)	10	18	18	13	13	13	15	14	15	13	14	13	13	7	13	12	17	12	16	8	15	15
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	0.2 W	-	-	-	-	1.0 S	0.6 SSE	-	-	0.4 S	0.4 SSE	0.4 SE	0.9 S	0.3 W	-	1.1 S	-	1.3 SW	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	4	-	-	-	-	5	4	-	-	5	5	5	6	2	-	5	-	6	-	-	-

	Wednesday 12								Thursday 13								Friday 14
	1AM	4AM	7AM	10AM	1PM	4PM	7PM	10PM	1AM	4AM	7AM	10AM	1PM	4PM	7PM	10PM	1AM	4AM	7AM	10AM	1PM	4PM
Best forecast wave conditions in Orange County	Dana Point CAL - Orange County	San Onofre CAL - Orange County	Agate and Pearl Street CAL - Orange County	El Porto Beach CAL - LA County	Camp Pendelton CAL - San Diego County	Blackies CAL - Orange County	Anderson Street CAL - Orange County	San Onofre CAL - Orange County	San Onofre CAL - Orange County	San Onofre CAL - Orange County	San Onofre CAL - Orange County	San Onofre CAL - Orange County	Exiles CAL - LA County	Ben Weston (Catalina Island) CAL - Orange County	San Onofre CAL - Orange County	San Onofre CAL - Orange County	San Onofre CAL - Orange County	El Porto Beach CAL - LA County	San Onofre CAL - Orange County	San Onofre CAL - Orange County	San Onofre CAL - Orange County	Exiles CAL - LA County
Rating	3	2	2	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	2	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	2
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	1.0 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.5 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.9 SSW	1.0 SSW	1.0 SSW	0.8 W
Period(s) (?)	16	16	16	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	17	17	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	15	15	14
Energy(?)	539	499	313	170	346	337	333	443	439	427	597	449	224	425	437	437	445	378	492	581	708	577
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	glass	glass	glass	glass	glass	glass	glass	glass	glass	glass	glass	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off
Tide State(?)	mid-flow	mid-flow	high	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow
High Tide / height (m)			4:30AM 1.69			3:08PM 1.34					4:53AM 1.38				4:12PM 1.29				5:25AM 1.49
Low Tide / height (m)				9:58AM 0.84					10:04PM 0.12				11:07AM 1.05				10:51PM 0.18				11:45AM 0.47
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	cloudy	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	cloudy	light rain	cloudy	light rain	light rain
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	1	4
Temp. °C	17	18	17	18	20	19	18	19	18	18	19	20	20	18	19	19	19	18	18	18	18	17
Chill °C (?)	17	18	17	18	20	19	18	19	18	18	19	20	20	18	19	19	19	18	18	18	18	16
Sunrise	-	-	6:18	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:18	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:20	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	4:50	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4:52	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4:51
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	1.0 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.5 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.9 WSW	0.9 SSW	1.0 SSW	1.1 WSW	1.0 SW
Period (s)	16	16	16	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	17	17	16	16	16	16	16	9	16	15	8	8
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.7 W	0.6 W	0.4 W	0.4 W	0.5 W	0.4 W	0.4 SSW	0.5 SSW	0.5 SSW	0.5 SSW	0.3 W	0.6 SSW	0.4 SSW	0.5 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.8 W	0.9 WSW	1.0 SSW	0.8 W
Period (s)	11	10	10	10	10	9	18	18	18	18	9	13	13	13	13	13	13	16	9	9	15	14
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.6 SE	-	-	-	0.6 SSE
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	-	4

	Tue	Wednesday 12
	11PM	0AM	1AM	2AM	3AM	4AM	5AM	6AM	7AM	8AM	9AM	10AM	11AM	12PM	1PM	2PM	3PM	4PM	5PM	6PM	7PM	8PM
Best forecast wave conditions in Orange County	Dana Point CAL - Orange County	San Onofre CAL - Orange County	Agate and Pearl Street CAL - Orange County	El Porto Beach CAL - LA County	Camp Pendelton CAL - San Diego County	Blackies CAL - Orange County	Anderson Street CAL - Orange County	San Onofre CAL - Orange County	San Onofre CAL - Orange County	San Onofre CAL - Orange County	San Onofre CAL - Orange County	San Onofre CAL - Orange County	Exiles CAL - LA County	Ben Weston (Catalina Island) CAL - Orange County	San Onofre CAL - Orange County	San Onofre CAL - Orange County	San Onofre CAL - Orange County	El Porto Beach CAL - LA County	San Onofre CAL - Orange County	San Onofre CAL - Orange County	San Onofre CAL - Orange County	Exiles CAL - LA County
Rating	3	2	2	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	2	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	2
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.4 SSW
Period(s) (?)	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	15	15	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	18
Energy(?)	475	451	375	257	500	321	314	435	345	327	312	297	170	296	346	346	392	227	392	445	444	258
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	glass	glass	glass	cross- on	cross	glass	on	glass	cross- on	glass	glass	cross- on	glass	on	on	on	cross- on	on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	glass
High Tide / height (m)							4:32AM 1.71										2:53PM 1.34	3:21PM 1.35
Low Tide / height (m)												9:30AM 0.84
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	17	18	17	17	17	17	17	18	18	18	19	19	18	17	21	20	19	19	19	19	18	18
Chill °C (?)	17	18	17	17	17	17	17	18	18	18	19	19	18	17	21	20	19	19	19	19	18	18
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:18	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4:51	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.5 SSW
Period (s)	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	15	15	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.6 W	0.5 W	0.6 W	0.4 W	0.6 W	0.4 W	0.4 W	0.5 W	0.4 W	0.4 W	0.4 W	0.4 W	0.4 W	0.5 W	0.5 W	0.5 W	0.4 SSW	0.3 SSW	0.4 SSW	0.5 SSW	0.5 SSW	0.4 SSW
Period (s)	11	11	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	18	18	18	18	18	18
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.3 W	-	-	0.2 W	0.4 W	0.2 W	0.2 W	-	0.3 W
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	4	9	4	4	-	3