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

	Fri		Saturday 30			Sunday 31			Monday 01			Tuesday 02			Wednesday 03			Thursday 04			Fri
	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 California	Acapulquito-Costa Azul Baja Sur	Acapulquito-Costa Azul Baja Sur	Acapulquito-Costa Azul Baja Sur	Acapulquito-Costa Azul Baja Sur	Cayucos Pier CAL - San Luis Obispo	Coronado Beaches CAL - San Diego County	Steamer Lane-The Point CAL - Santa Cruz	Doran Beach CAL - Sonoma	Deadman's CAL - Humboldt	San Onofre CAL - Orange County	Asuncion Bay Baja Sur	Open Doors (Isla Natividad) Baja Sur	Andrew Molera State Park CAL - Monterey	Celestino Sinaloa	Acapulquito-Costa Azul Baja Sur	San Onofre CAL - Orange County	Open Doors (Isla Natividad) Baja Sur	Beacons CAL - San Diego County	San Onofre CAL - Orange County	Open Doors (Isla Natividad) Baja Sur	Horseshoe CAL - San Diego County	Acapulquito-Costa Azul Baja Sur
Rating	3	4	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.1 SSE	1.0 SSW	1.3 SSW	1.3 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.9 SW	0.9 SSW	0.9 SW	1.0 SSW	1.1 SSW	1.0 SSW	1.1 SSW	0.9 SSW	1.2 SSW	1.3 SSW	1.0 SSW	1.2 SSW	1.0 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.8 SSW	1.1 SSW
Period(s) (?)	12	19	18	17	18	16	17	16	16	15	14	15	15	15	15	16	14	16	15	14	14	15
Energy(?)	603	985	1133	1132	556	484	569	585	561	605	752	569	487	701	1082	498	618	648	580	562	472	754
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross	cross- off	glass	glass	glass	cross- off	cross	cross- off	cross	cross- on	glass	glass	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross	glass	cross- on	cross	glass	cross- on	cross- on
High Tide / height (m)		1:02AM 1.13	11:06AM 1.39			11:28AM 1.32				2:19PM 1.25		8:40AM 1.16	4:47PM 1.34		7:50AM 1.20	7:59PM 1.61		8:56AM 1.36		8:23PM 1.65	10:40AM 1.30
Low Tide / height (m)	7:33PM 0.84	4:57AM 1.01		7:34PM 0.73				11:56PM 0.61			12:19AM 0.47	11:33AM 1.13		12:41AM 0.33	12:07PM 1.00		3:04AM 0.30	1:49PM 0.72	2:48PM 0.89	3:29AM -0.11		3:25PM 0.75
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	some clouds	rain shwrs	clear	risk thund- der	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	mod. rain	risk thund- der	rain shwrs	clear	some clouds	risk thund- der	clear	rain shwrs	some clouds
Rain (mm)	-	2	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7	15	1	-	-	3	-	1	-
High °C	30	29	31	30	23	25	28	19	17	27	26	23	22	26	26	27	24	25	25	24	23	29
Low °C	30	27	28	30	19	22	27	15	15	27	24	21	22	24	25	26	23	22	23	23	23	29
Chill °C (?)	30	29	31	30	23	25	28	18	17	27	26	23	22	26	26	27	24	25	25	24	23	29
Sunrise	-	-	6:00	-	-	6:22	-	-	6:43	-	-	6:18	-	-	6:01	-	-	6:24	-	-	6:26	-
Sunset	6:38	-	-	6:37	-	-	7:37	-	-	7:15	-	-	7:34	-	-	7:13	-	-	7:10	-	-	6:31
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.1 SSE	1.0 SSW	1.3 SSW	1.3 SSW	1.1 WNW	0.9 SW	0.9 SSW	0.9 SW	1.0 SSW	1.1 SSW	1.0 SSW	1.1 SSW	1.1 NW	1.2 SSW	1.3 SSE	1.0 SSW	1.2 SSW	1.0 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.8 WNW	1.1 SW
Period (s)	12	19	18	17	7	16	17	16	16	15	14	15	8	15	9	16	14	16	15	14	6	8
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.7 SW	1.0 SSE	0.9 SSE	0.9 SSE	0.8 SSW	0.3 W	0.2 S	0.4 WNW	0.4 WNW	0.3 S	0.8 SSW	0.6 NW	0.9 SSW	0.4 S	1.3 SSW	0.1 W	0.6 NW	0.9 WNW	0.7 W	0.8 SSE	0.8 SSW	1.1 SSW
Period (s)	16	11	11	11	18	5	12	11	10	11	17	7	15	8	15	10	7	7	7	9	14	15
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	0.5 WNW	0.8 WNW	0.5 W	-	-	1.3 WNW	1.4 NW	0.7 NW	0.4 WSW	0.9 NW	-	-	-	-	0.7 W	-	-	-	-	-	0.1 NW
Period (s)	-	4	4	4	-	-	5	6	6	11	5	-	-	-	-	6	-	-	-	-	-	10

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	2PM	5PM	8PM	11PM	2AM	5AM	8AM	11AM	2PM	5PM	8PM	11PM	2AM	5AM	8AM	11AM	2PM	5PM	8PM	11PM	2AM	5AM
Best forecast wave conditions in California	Open Doors (Isla Natividad) Baja Sur	Open Doors (Isla Natividad) Baja Sur	Acapulquito-Costa Azul Baja Sur	Acapulquito-Costa Azul Baja Sur	Acapulquito-Costa Azul Baja Sur	Acapulquito-Costa Azul Baja Sur	Acapulquito-Costa Azul Baja Sur	Acapulquito-Costa Azul Baja Sur	Open Doors (Isla Natividad) Baja Sur	Acapulquito-Costa Azul Baja Sur	Acapulquito-Costa Azul Baja Sur	Acapulquito-Costa Azul Baja Sur	Acapulquito-Costa Azul Baja Sur	Acapulquito-Costa Azul Baja Sur	Acapulquito-Costa Azul Baja Sur	Cayucos Pier CAL - San Luis Obispo	Fullers CAL - Monterey	Coronado Beaches CAL - San Diego County	Steamer Lane-The Point CAL - Santa Cruz	Steamer Lane-The Point CAL - Santa Cruz	Steamer Lane-The Point CAL - Santa Cruz	Steamer Lane-The Point CAL - Santa Cruz
Rating	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	4	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.0 S	1.0 S	1.1 SSE	0.8 SSW	1.0 SSW	0.9 SSW	1.1 SSW	1.3 SSW	1.0 SSW	1.3 SSW	1.3 SSW	1.3 SSW	1.3 SSW	1.4 SSW	1.4 SSW	1.0 SSW	1.0 SSW	1.0 SW	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	1.0 SSW
Period(s) (?)	13	12	12	19	19	18	18	18	18	17	17	16	16	16	16	17	17	16	17	16	16	16
Energy(?)	589	691	818	890	985	980	1043	1133	828	1132	1211	1116	1059	1167	1169	679	723	525	522	737	807	859
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	off	off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	off	glass	off	glass	off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	glass	glass	glass	glass
Tide State(?)	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	low	mid-flow	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	low-flow	mid-flow	mid-flow	mid-flow	mid-flow	high-flow	high	mid-ebb	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow
High Tide / height (m)	12:07PM 1.82				11:22PM 0.91				12:43PM 1.76									3:42PM 1.48
Low Tide / height (m)			5:58PM 0.66			3:51AM 0.78					7:34PM 0.73										12:29AM 0.29
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	clear	clear	risk thund- der	risk thund- der	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	risk thund- der	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	24	23	29	28	27	27	28	31	23	30	28	28	28	27	29	28	32	25	21	19	18	17
Chill °C (?)	24	23	29	28	27	27	28	31	23	30	28	28	28	27	29	28	32	25	21	19	18	17
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:00	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:01	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	7:05	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:37	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:15	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.0 S	1.0 S	1.1 SSE	1.1 SSE	1.0 SSW	1.0 SSE	1.1 SSW	1.3 SSW	1.0 SSW	1.3 SSW	1.3 SSW	1.3 SSW	1.3 SSW	1.4 SSW	1.4 SSW	1.0 SSW	1.0 SSW	1.0 SW	0.9 SSW	1.1 WNW	1.2 WNW	1.1 WNW
Period (s)	13	12	12	12	19	11	18	18	18	17	17	16	16	16	16	17	17	16	17	7	7	7
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.6 SW	0.6 SW	0.7 SW	0.8 SSW	1.0 SSE	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSE	0.9 SSE	0.8 SSE	0.9 SSE	0.9 SSE	0.9 SSE	0.8 SSE	0.8 SSE	0.8 SSE	1.0 WNW	0.5 S	0.2 S	0.2 S	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	1.0 SSW
Period (s)	16	16	16	19	11	18	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	7	12	9	10	16	16	16
Wind waves (m) & direction	0.4 NW	0.4 NW	0.4 WSW	0.4 WNW	0.5 WNW	0.6 WNW	0.7 WNW	0.8 WNW	0.7 NW	0.5 W	0.5 W	0.5 W	0.5 W	0.6 WNW	0.5 W	-	1.0 NW	0.4 WNW	1.1 NW	1.5 NW	1.6 NW	1.5 NW
Period (s)	8	8	7	3	4	4	4	4	5	4	4	5	7	4	4	-	6	5	6	7	7	7

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Best forecast wave conditions in California	Open Doors (Isla Natividad) Baja Sur	Open Doors (Isla Natividad) Baja Sur	Acapulquito-Costa Azul Baja Sur	Acapulquito-Costa Azul Baja Sur	Acapulquito-Costa Azul Baja Sur	Acapulquito-Costa Azul Baja Sur	Acapulquito-Costa Azul Baja Sur	Acapulquito-Costa Azul Baja Sur	Open Doors (Isla Natividad) Baja Sur	Acapulquito-Costa Azul Baja Sur	Acapulquito-Costa Azul Baja Sur	Acapulquito-Costa Azul Baja Sur	Acapulquito-Costa Azul Baja Sur	Acapulquito-Costa Azul Baja Sur	Acapulquito-Costa Azul Baja Sur	Cayucos Pier CAL - San Luis Obispo	Fullers CAL - Monterey	Coronado Beaches CAL - San Diego County	Steamer Lane-The Point CAL - Santa Cruz	Steamer Lane-The Point CAL - Santa Cruz	Steamer Lane-The Point CAL - Santa Cruz	Steamer Lane-The Point CAL - Santa Cruz
Rating	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	4	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.1 S	1.0 S	1.2 SSE	1.2 SSE	1.1 SSE	1.1 SSE	1.1 SSE	1.1 SSE	0.9 SSE	1.1 SSE	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	1.0 SSW	1.0 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.6 SW	0.6 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.6 SSW
Period(s) (?)	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	19	19	19	19	19	16	16	16	16	16	16	16
Energy(?)	597	544	661	666	603	603	603	824	392	818	890	890	890	985	985	267	251	196	235	248	253	258
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	off	off	on	cross- on	cross- on	cross	cross	cross- off	off	off	off	off	off	off	cross- off	glass	off	cross- off	glass	glass	glass	glass
High Tide / height (m)		12:07PM 1.82											11:22PM 0.91
Low Tide / height (m)							5:58PM 0.66		7:33PM 0.84
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	clear	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	clear	risk thund- der	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	23	24	30	30	30	30	30	29	22	28	27	28	27	27	27	19	24	23	17	17	18	21
Chill °C (?)	23	24	30	30	30	30	30	29	22	28	27	28	27	27	27	19	24	23	17	17	18	21
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:37	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:37	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.1 S	1.0 S	1.2 SSE	1.2 SSE	1.1 SSE	1.1 SSE	1.1 SSE	1.1 SSE	0.9 SSE	1.1 SSE	1.1 SSE	1.1 SSE	1.1 SSE	1.0 SSW	1.0 SSW	0.9 WNW	0.6 SSW	0.6 SW	0.6 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.6 SSW
Period (s)	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	19	19	6	16	16	16	16	16	16
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.6 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.7 SW	0.7 SW	0.7 SW	0.7 SW	0.7 SW	0.7 SW	0.6 SSW	0.7 SW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	1.0 SSE	1.0 SSE	0.6 SSW	0.4 S	0.5 W	0.4 WNW	0.4 WNW	0.4 WNW	0.4 WNW
Period (s)	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	19	19	19	11	11	16	13	5	4	7	7	7
Wind waves (m) & direction	0.4 NW	0.4 NW	-	-	-	-	-	0.4 WSW	0.6 NW	0.4 WSW	0.4 WNW	0.4 WNW	0.4 WNW	0.5 WNW	0.5 WNW	-	0.6 WNW	-	0.5 NW	0.5 NW	0.6 WNW	0.6 NW
Period (s)	6	7	-	-	-	-	-	7	3	7	3	3	3	4	4	-	5	-	4	5	5	5

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