California Surf Map – Wind and Wave forecasts

California wave (swell) map for surfers, windsurfers and sailors showing open ocean wave size, wave period and wave energy. You can customize the wave and wind maps with overlays for wind arrows, pressure and general weather for surfing. There are also options to display live wind observations from ships, wave buoys and weather stations on the wave maps in the California region.

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Long range 3-hourly Hourly

	Wednesday 15			Thursday 16			Friday 17			Saturday 18			Sunday 19			Monday 20			Tuesday 21			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 California	Chadbourne Gulch CAL - Mendocino County	La Push Washington	Steamer Lane-The Point CAL - Santa Cruz	Acapulquito-Costa Azul Baja Sur	Big River CAL - Mendocino County	Cortez Bank CAL - San Diego County	Doran Beach CAL - Sonoma	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Open Doors (Isla Natividad) Baja Sur	Open Doors (Isla Natividad) Baja Sur	Acapulquito-Costa Azul Baja Sur	Agate Beach Oregon South	Tofino (North Chestermans Beach) Vancouver Island	Agate Beach Oregon South	Bastendorff Beach Oregon South	Big Lagoon CAL - Humboldt	Chadbourne Gulch CAL - Mendocino County	Surf Beach CAL - Santa Barbara	Acapulquito-Costa Azul Baja Sur	Jalama CAL - Santa Barbara	Chadbourne Gulch CAL - Mendocino County	Port Orford Oregon South
Rating	3	4	3	3	4	4	3	4	3	3	2	2	3	4	4	4	4	4	3	4	3	3
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.6 NW	2.4 W	0.5 SSW	0.9 SSW	3.5 NW	2.1 NW	1.4 NW	1.7 NW	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.8 SSW	1.2 WSW	1.1 SSW	0.9 WNW	2.5 WNW	2.4 WNW	2.3 WNW	2.1 WNW	0.8 S	2.1 WNW	0.7 NW	1.3 WNW
Period(s) (?)	12	10	15	14	9	8	10	10	14	14	13	8	7	15	12	12	12	13	18	12	16	14
Energy(?)	275	1204	261	486	2101	866	539	720	705	592	284	253	384	654	1844	1651	1698	1467	520	1386	466	873
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	on	cross- on	cross- off	cross- on	cross- off	on	glass	cross	cross- off	off	cross	cross- off	cross	cross- on	cross- off	off	cross- off	off	cross- on	on	off	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)				11:23AM 1.44		10:10PM 1.69	1:24PM 2.35		10:43PM 1.71	12:36PM 1.25					12:58AM 1.96					4:21PM 1.27	2:41AM 1.79
Low Tide / height (m)					5:31PM 0.34	4:50AM -0.24	7:10AM -0.31	7:08PM 0.45		5:34AM -0.36				5:55PM 0.77							8:31PM 0.82
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	some clouds	rain shwrs	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	clear	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	mod. rain	heavy rain	clear	clear	rain shwrs	cloudy	light rain
Rain (mm)	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	10	18	-	-	1	-	5
High °C	12	8	14	27	12	15	14	17	17	17	25	11	12	16	12	12	12	14	26	15	11	10
Low °C	10	7	10	24	11	14	10	16	16	16	24	10	12	14	11	11	10	13	24	15	10	10
Chill °C (?)	11	4	13	27	9	13	14	16	16	16	25	11	11	16	12	11	12	13	26	14	11	8
Sunrise	6:37	-	-	5:58	-	-	6:33	-	-	6:13	-	-	6:24	-	-	6:30	-	-	5:54	-	-	6:24
Sunset	-	8:07	-	-	7:52	-	-	7:42	-	-	6:40	-	-	8:05	-	-	7:57	-	-	7:37	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.7 NW	2.4 W	0.5 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.5 SSW	0.6 SSW	1.4 NW	1.7 NW	1.2 NW	1.2 NW	0.8 SSW	1.2 WSW	1.1 SSW	1.3 SW	2.5 WNW	2.4 WNW	2.3 WNW	2.1 WNW	0.8 S	2.1 WNW	0.9 SW	1.3 WNW
Period (s)	8	10	15	14	14	13	10	10	11	10	13	8	7	7	12	12	12	13	18	12	7	14
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.6 NW	0.4 SW	0.4 NW	0.5 S	0.3 S	0.5 S	0.4 SSW	0.5 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.3 SSE	0.4 SW	0.5 W	0.9 WNW	0.3 SW	0.4 SW	0.7 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.6 S	0.5 SSW	0.9 NW	1.2 NW
Period (s)	12	16	12	18	18	17	17	13	14	14	9	14	14	15	14	13	13	12	13	12	9	8
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	0.9 WNW	0.6 WNW	3.5 NW	2.1 NW	-	-	-	-	0.8 WNW	-	-	-	-	-	0.8 S	-	0.8 WNW	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	-	6	5	9	8	-	-	-	-	5	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	5	-	-	-

	Wednesday 15						Thursday 16								Friday 17
	8AM	11AM	2PM	5PM	8PM	11PM	2AM	5AM	8AM	11AM	2PM	5PM	8PM	11PM	2AM	5AM	8AM	11AM	2PM	5PM	8PM	11PM
Best forecast wave conditions in California	Celestino Sinaloa	Open Doors (Isla Natividad) Baja Sur	Open Doors (Isla Natividad) Baja Sur	Chadbourne Gulch CAL - Mendocino County	Garths Reef CAL - Del Norte County	Cayucos Pier CAL - San Luis Obispo	La Push Washington	La Push Washington	Gazos Creek CAL - San Mateo	Steamer Lane-The Point CAL - Santa Cruz	Fullers CAL - Monterey	Acapulquito-Costa Azul Baja Sur	Willow Creek CAL - Monterey	Steamer Lane-The Point CAL - Santa Cruz	Big River CAL - Mendocino County	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Cortez Bank CAL - San Diego County	Cortez Bank CAL - San Diego County	Doran Beach CAL - Sonoma	Big River CAL - Mendocino County	Fullers CAL - Monterey
Rating	3	3	3	3	3	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.9 SSW	1.3 NW	1.2 NW	1.4 NW	2.1 WNW	2.3 NW	3.0 WNW	2.5 WNW	2.3 NW	1.6 WNW	1.7 WNW	1.0 SSW	3.0 NW	2.4 NW	3.0 NW	2.2 NW	2.1 NW	2.2 NW	2.1 NW	1.6 NW	1.8 NW	1.8 NW
Period(s) (?)	15	10	10	10	9	8	10	10	9	9	9	16	9	9	10	10	10	10	10	10	9	10
Energy(?)	569	527	577	634	1304	1014	1637	1301	1565	582	648	555	2172	1694	3080	1173	1141	1267	1156	908	675	1135
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	off	off	glass	off	cross- off	glass	glass	cross- off	glass	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	off
Tide State(?)	-	-	-	low	mid-flow	high	high	mid-ebb	mid-flow	high	-	-	-	high	high	-	-	-	-	mid-ebb	low	-
High Tide / height (m)						9:42PM 1.58	11:57PM 2.57			10:40AM 1.27				10:25PM 1.61	11:05PM 1.82
Low Tide / height (m)				4:13PM 0.18																	5:26PM 0.40
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	clear	clear	light rain	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	26	17	18	11	9	13	5	5	9	14	21	28	16	12	8	13	15	15	15	13	10	15
Chill °C (?)	26	16	17	11	6	12	5	5	7	14	21	28	15	11	6	12	14	15	15	12	8	15
Sunrise	5:46	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:33	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:31	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	7:52	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:39	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:50	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.0 WNW	0.7 SSW	0.8 SSW	1.4 NW	1.8 WNW	1.6 WNW	3.0 WNW	2.5 WNW	2.0 WNW	1.6 WNW	0.5 SSW	1.0 SSW	2.0 WNW	1.7 WNW	2.5 NW	2.2 NW	2.1 NW	2.2 NW	2.1 NW	1.2 NW	0.5 SSW	1.2 NW
Period (s)	6	15	14	10	9	7	10	10	9	9	14	16	9	9	10	10	10	10	10	10	14	10
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.9 SSW	0.3 SSW	0.3 SSE	0.7 SSW	0.4 SW	0.5 SSW	0.3 SW	0.4 SW	0.5 SSW	0.5 SSW	0.3 S	0.4 SE	0.7 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.5 S	0.4 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.5 SW	0.3 S	0.7 SSW
Period (s)	15	12	10	14	14	15	13	13	14	14	18	9	14	14	14	17	13	16	16	13	17	16
Wind waves (m) & direction	1.3 WNW	1.3 NW	1.2 NW	-	2.1 WNW	2.3 NW	-	-	2.3 NW	-	1.7 WNW	1.0 WNW	3.0 NW	2.4 NW	3.0 NW	-	-	-	-	1.6 NW	1.8 NW	1.8 NW
Period (s)	6	10	10	-	9	8	-	-	9	-	9	5	9	9	10	-	-	-	-	10	9	10

	Wednesday 15																		Thursday 16
	6AM	7AM	8AM	9AM	10AM	11AM	12PM	1PM	2PM	3PM	4PM	5PM	6PM	7PM	8PM	9PM	10PM	11PM	0AM	1AM	2AM	3AM
Best forecast wave conditions in California	Celestino Sinaloa	Open Doors (Isla Natividad) Baja Sur	Open Doors (Isla Natividad) Baja Sur	Chadbourne Gulch CAL - Mendocino County	Garths Reef CAL - Del Norte County	Cayucos Pier CAL - San Luis Obispo	La Push Washington	La Push Washington	Gazos Creek CAL - San Mateo	Steamer Lane-The Point CAL - Santa Cruz	Fullers CAL - Monterey	Acapulquito-Costa Azul Baja Sur	Willow Creek CAL - Monterey	Steamer Lane-The Point CAL - Santa Cruz	Big River CAL - Mendocino County	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Cortez Bank CAL - San Diego County	Cortez Bank CAL - San Diego County	Doran Beach CAL - Sonoma	Big River CAL - Mendocino County	Fullers CAL - Monterey
Rating	3	3	3	3	3	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.9 SSW	1.3 NW	1.3 NW	0.5 SSW	1.6 WNW	0.8 SSW	1.7 WNW	2.4 W	0.5 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.9 SSW	1.8 NW	0.7 SSW	2.1 NW	0.5 SSW	0.5 SSW	1.5 NW	1.5 NW	1.8 NW	2.5 NW	0.5 SSW
Period(s) (?)	15	10	10	13	9	15	10	9	14	14	15	14	6	15	10	15	15	7	7	6	9	15
Energy(?)	442	587	587	255	444	539	819	1903	267	292	221	476	480	316	1062	244	245	534	532	455	1139	212
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	off	off	glass	on	cross	cross- on	cross- on	cross	cross	cross- off	glass	cross	cross	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross- on	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	off
High Tide / height (m)							11:44AM 2.29
Low Tide / height (m)
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	light rain	some clouds	light rain	light rain	cloudy	some clouds	clear	clear	some clouds	clear	some clouds	clear	clear	some clouds	cloudy	clear	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	3	-	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	23	16	16	12	10	17	7	7	14	18	20	25	15	15	11	12	12	14	14	10	8	12
Chill °C (?)	23	15	15	12	6	17	4	4	12	18	20	25	13	14	8	10	10	12	12	7	4	10
Sunrise	5:46	6:16	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:43	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.9 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.7 NW	1.6 WNW	0.9 WNW	1.7 WNW	2.2 W	0.5 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.5 SSW	0.5 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.5 SW	0.7 SSW	0.5 SSW
Period (s)	15	15	15	8	9	7	10	9	14	14	15	14	15	15	14	15	15	14	14	15	15	15
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.3 S	0.3 SSW	0.3 SSW	0.6 WNW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	1.3 SW	0.5 SW	0.4 WNW	0.4 WNW	0.3 S	0.4 SSE	0.3 SSW	0.4 WNW	0.2 W	0.5 NW	0.5 NW	0.5 NW	0.5 NW	0.4 WNW	0.2 W	0.4 SSW
Period (s)	10	12	12	12	5	15	8	14	12	12	12	9	12	12	9	12	12	12	12	12	9	12
Wind waves (m) & direction	1.1 WNW	1.3 NW	1.3 NW	-	-	1.3 WNW	-	2.4 W	1.2 NW	1.1 NW	1.6 NW	0.8 WNW	1.8 NW	0.9 WNW	2.1 NW	1.5 NW	1.4 NW	1.5 NW	1.5 NW	1.8 NW	2.5 NW	1.1 NW
Period (s)	6	10	10	-	-	7	-	9	6	6	5	6	6	5	10	6	6	7	7	6	9	6

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