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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California Wavefinder

Long range 3-hourly Hourly

	Sat	Sunday 21			Monday 22			Tuesday 23			Wednesday 24			Thursday 25			Friday 26			Saturday 27
	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 California	Agate Beach Oregon South	Centreville Beach CAL - Humboldt	Bastendorff Beach Oregon South	Big Lagoon CAL - Humboldt	Big Lagoon CAL - Humboldt	Big Lagoon CAL - Humboldt	Pacific City/Cape Kiwanda Oregon North	Agate Beach Oregon South	Agate Beach Oregon South	Big Lagoon CAL - Humboldt	Bastendorff Beach Oregon South	San Onofre CAL - Orange County	Agate Beach Oregon South	Agate Beach Oregon South	Rincon - Indicator CAL - Ventura	Rincon - Indicator CAL - Ventura	San Onofre CAL - Orange County	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Asilomar CAL - Monterey	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Jalama CAL - Santa Barbara	Cabo Colonet Baja Norte
Rating	4	4	3	3	3	4	5	5	4	4	3	2	2	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	2.0 WNW	1.6 NW	1.6 NW	1.4 NW	1.4 NW	1.2 NW	3.0 W	3.0 W	3.0 W	2.5 WNW	1.9 WNW	1.3 WSW	1.2 WNW	1.0 WNW	2.3 WSW	2.2 WSW	2.1 W	2.5 W	2.1 W	2.5 WNW	2.3 WNW	2.1 WNW
Period(s) (?)	10	11	10	10	10	10	10	12	13	12	11	8	9	11	10	11	13	10	10	11	11	12
Energy(?)	1433	1269	711	617	777	655	2157	2964	3177	2055	832	414	314	378	1538	1728	1662	1715	1143	1637	1395	1173
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross	cross- off	glass	off	off	cross	off	off	on	cross- off	cross- off	cross	cross- off	cross	cross- on	cross- on
High Tide / height (m)	1:34AM 2.00	12:13PM 2.62		2:30AM 2.08	12:51PM 2.58		3:07AM 2.11	12:41PM 1.91		2:37AM 1.48			3:33AM 2.22		1:46PM 1.52		4:08AM 2.30	3:36PM 1.65		4:44AM 2.40	5:37PM 1.68
Low Tide / height (m)		6:28AM 1.31		7:30PM -0.17	7:08AM 1.31		8:06PM -0.14	7:08AM 1.20		7:29PM -0.09	8:32AM 1.15		8:33PM 0.45	8:53AM 1.49		9:09PM 0.60	10:00AM 1.37		9:47PM 0.77	11:11AM 1.18		11:51PM 0.47
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	cloudy	heavy rain	light rain	rain shwrs	light rain	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	light rain	light rain	rain shwrs	some clouds	rain shwrs	cloudy	light rain	mod. rain	some clouds	cloudy	light rain	heavy rain	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	light rain
Rain (mm)	-	14	5	3	1	1	5	2	1	5	-	2	-	3	6	-	-	2	28	1	3	4
High °C	7	13	10	11	12	11	9	8	8	8	10	17	8	10	16	15	17	14	12	13	14	16
Low °C	7	13	10	9	11	10	7	7	7	8	8	17	7	7	15	15	16	13	11	13	14	15
Chill °C (?)	4	11	7	9	10	11	6	7	8	7	9	17	4	8	16	15	17	12	10	12	13	16
Sunrise	-	7:37	-	-	7:37	-	-	7:50	-	-	7:47	-	-	7:50	-	-	6:52	-	-	7:16	-	-
Sunset	-	-	4:44	-	-	4:51	-	-	4:38	-	-	4:47	-	-	4:52	-	-	4:58	-	-	4:58	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	2.0 WNW	1.6 NW	1.6 NW	1.4 NW	1.4 NW	1.2 NW	3.0 W	3.0 W	3.0 W	2.5 WNW	1.9 WNW	1.3 WSW	1.2 WNW	1.0 WNW	2.3 WSW	2.2 WSW	2.1 W	2.5 W	2.1 W	2.5 WNW	2.3 WNW	0.3 SW
Period (s)	10	11	10	10	10	10	10	12	13	12	11	8	9	11	10	11	13	10	10	11	11	14
Swell2 (m) & direction	1.6 SW	0.6 W	0.7 WSW	1.2 SW	0.9 WSW	0.9 WSW	0.6 WNW	0.1 SW	0.1 W	0.1 SW	0.1 SW	1.2 S	0.4 WNW	0.5 WNW	0.2 SSW	1.2 W	0.4 SW	1.2 NW	0.8 WNW	0.2 SSW	0.3 SSE	0.2 SSW
Period (s)	10	10	10	8	10	9	12	18	21	16	16	7	12	13	13	14	12	12	13	12	10	11
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	2.2 SSW	0.4 WSW	-	-	-	1.7 SSW	-	-	-	-	-	0.5 ENE	0.3 E	1.8 SW	-	-	-	-	-	0.5 NNW	2.1 WNW
Period (s)	-	8	3	-	-	-	8	-	-	-	-	-	3	3	8	-	-	-	-	-	3	12

	Sat		Sunday 21								Monday 22								Tuesday 23
	7PM	10PM	1AM	4AM	7AM	10AM	1PM	4PM	7PM	10PM	1AM	4AM	7AM	10AM	1PM	4PM	7PM	10PM	1AM	4AM	7AM	10AM
Best forecast wave conditions in California	Bastendorff Beach Oregon South	Agate Beach Oregon South	Agate Beach Oregon South	Agate Beach Oregon South	Agate Beach Oregon South	Agate Beach Oregon South	Agate Beach Oregon South	Centreville Beach CAL - Humboldt	Secrets CAL - Sonoma	Point Arena CAL - Mendocino County	Bastendorff Beach Oregon South	Asilomar CAL - Monterey	Big Lagoon CAL - Humboldt	Big Lagoon CAL - Humboldt	Big River CAL - Mendocino County	Big Lagoon CAL - Humboldt	Big Lagoon CAL - Humboldt	Bunkers CAL - Humboldt	Big Lagoon CAL - Humboldt	Big Lagoon CAL - Humboldt	Pacific City/Cape Kiwanda Oregon North	Pacific City/Cape Kiwanda Oregon North
Rating	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	4	4	5	5
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.9 WNW	2.0 WNW	2.0 WNW	1.9 WNW	1.8 WNW	1.7 WNW	1.6 WNW	1.5 NW	2.5 WSW	1.9 SW	1.7 WNW	1.8 WSW	1.4 NW	1.4 NW	1.3 NW	1.2 NW	1.0 WNW	1.9 NW	2.5 WNW	2.5 WNW	3.5 W	3.0 W
Period(s) (?)	11	11	10	10	10	10	10	11	9	8	10	9	10	10	10	10	13	12	11	11	12	12
Energy(?)	1124	1357	1433	1204	1155	1062	935	1079	1958	986	876	656	789	777	738	655	757	1209	1552	1860	3252	3054
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off
Tide State(?)	low	mid-flow	mid-flow	high	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	mid-flow	high	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low
High Tide / height (m)				1:54AM 2.06			12:13PM 2.62					1:05AM 1.15			11:30AM 1.84					2:21AM 2.13
Low Tide / height (m)	6:45PM -0.16				6:28AM 1.31				6:16PM 0.19				6:19AM 1.57					7:41PM -0.23				8:20AM 1.06
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	light rain	cloudy	light rain	light rain	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	rain shwrs	rain shwrs
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	-	1	1	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	1	1
Temp. °C	9	7	7	7	7	8	9	13	14	13	8	15	9	11	12	11	10	9	9	8	7	8
Chill °C (?)	7	4	5	5	5	7	7	12	13	12	7	14	7	9	11	11	9	8	8	7	4	6
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	7:48	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:37	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:52
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4:52	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4:51	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.9 WNW	2.0 WNW	2.0 WNW	1.9 WNW	1.8 WNW	1.7 WNW	1.6 WNW	1.9 SSW	2.4 WSW	1.9 SW	1.7 WNW	1.8 WSW	1.4 NW	1.4 NW	1.3 NW	1.2 NW	1.3 WNW	1.9 NW	2.5 WNW	2.5 WNW	3.5 W	3.0 W
Period (s)	11	11	10	10	10	10	10	8	8	8	10	9	10	10	10	10	10	12	11	11	12	12
Swell2 (m) & direction	1.2 WSW	0.2 WNW	1.6 SW	1.4 SW	1.3 WSW	1.3 WSW	1.3 WSW	1.5 NW	1.0 S	1.4 NW	0.8 WNW	0.6 NW	1.0 WSW	0.9 WSW	1.0 SW	0.9 WSW	1.0 WNW	0.8 WSW	0.5 SW	0.5 SW	-	0.1 SW
Period (s)	10	16	10	10	10	10	10	11	6	11	14	11	10	10	8	9	13	8	7	8	-	18
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	1.7 SW	-	-	-	-	-	-	2.5 WSW	-	-	0.6 SSE	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.6 SSW	0.6 SSW
Period (s)	-	9	-	-	-	-	-	-	9	-	-	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	7

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	5PM	6PM	7PM	8PM	9PM	10PM	11PM	0AM	1AM	2AM	3AM	4AM	5AM	6AM	7AM	8AM	9AM	10AM	11AM	12PM	1PM	2PM
Best forecast wave conditions in California	Bastendorff Beach Oregon South	Agate Beach Oregon South	Agate Beach Oregon South	Agate Beach Oregon South	Agate Beach Oregon South	Agate Beach Oregon South	Agate Beach Oregon South	Centreville Beach CAL - Humboldt	Secrets CAL - Sonoma	Point Arena CAL - Mendocino County	Bastendorff Beach Oregon South	Asilomar CAL - Monterey	Big Lagoon CAL - Humboldt	Big Lagoon CAL - Humboldt	Big River CAL - Mendocino County	Big Lagoon CAL - Humboldt	Big Lagoon CAL - Humboldt	Bunkers CAL - Humboldt	Big Lagoon CAL - Humboldt	Big Lagoon CAL - Humboldt	Pacific City/Cape Kiwanda Oregon North	Pacific City/Cape Kiwanda Oregon North
Rating	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	4	4	5	5
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	2.0 WNW	2.0 WNW	2.0 WNW	2.0 WNW	1.9 WNW	2.0 WNW	2.0 WNW	1.8 NW	1.1 NW	1.6 NW	1.8 NW	1.0 W	1.6 NW	1.6 NW	2.5 SW	1.6 NW	1.6 NW	1.6 NW	1.5 NW	1.5 NW	1.6 WNW	1.6 WNW
Period(s) (?)	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	7	11	11	11	11	11	10	10
Energy(?)	1193	1407	1376	1386	1315	1357	1357	1122	443	989	954	398	782	1033	1193	1033	1263	1213	783	976	990	979
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- on	cross	cross	cross- off	cross- on	cross- on	cross	cross
High Tide / height (m)									12:45AM 1.70											11:27AM 2.66	12:22PM 2.45
Low Tide / height (m)			6:55PM -0.18									3:58AM 0.98		5:38AM 1.56
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	cloudy	mod. rain	mod. rain	light rain	light rain	light rain	light rain	light rain	light rain	cloudy	cloudy
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	-	1	-	7	9	1	4	5	4	4	2	-	-
High °C	10	8	8	8	7	7	7	12	15	15	7	16	12	12	14	14	13	13	12	12	10	10
Chill °C (?)	8	5	5	5	4	4	4	11	13	13	5	15	11	10	11	12	12	10	11	12	8	8
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:37	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	2.0 WNW	2.0 WNW	2.0 WNW	2.0 WNW	1.9 WNW	2.0 WNW	2.0 WNW	1.8 NW	1.1 NW	1.6 NW	1.8 NW	1.0 W	1.6 NW	1.6 NW	1.3 NW	1.6 NW	1.6 NW	1.6 NW	1.5 NW	1.5 NW	1.6 WNW	1.6 WNW
Period (s)	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	10	10
Swell2 (m) & direction	1.2 WSW	0.3 WNW	0.3 WNW	0.3 WNW	0.2 WNW	0.2 WNW	0.2 WNW	1.0 WSW	0.8 W	0.7 W	1.0 WSW	0.8 NW	0.9 WSW	0.2 WNW	0.2 WNW	0.2 WNW	1.4 SSW	0.6 W	1.4 SSW	0.7 W	1.4 SW	1.4 SW
Period (s)	10	16	16	16	16	16	16	10	11	11	10	11	10	16	16	16	7	10	7	10	10	10
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	1.7 SW	1.6 SW	1.6 SW	1.7 SW	1.7 SW	1.7 SW	1.0 S	1.3 SSW	1.7 SSW	-	-	-	1.4 SW	2.5 SW	1.4 SW	1.4 SW	2.0 SSW	-	1.4 SSW	-	-
Period (s)	-	9	9	9	9	9	9	4	5	5	-	-	-	10	7	10	10	8	-	7	-	-

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Delaware	Minnesota	Pennsylvania
Maryland	New-Jersey	Rhode-Island
Massachusetts	New-York

Alaska United States	Oregon
British-Columbia	Washington

Alabama	Guatemala	Panama
Belize	Honduras	South-Carolina
Cayman Islands	Jamaica	Texas
Costa Rica	Louisiana	The Bahamas
El Salvador	Mexico	Turks and Caicos Islands
Florida	Nicaragua	Virginia
Georgia-USA	North-Carolina

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