🏄 Surf Report
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🌍 Surf Spots Around the World
Pins show the model wave height right now and are colored by surf quality. A red dot marks spots with a verified live camera. Tap a pin for details.
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🌊 Surf Forecast
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Next 48 hours: surf quality by the hour
Bar color = estimated surf quality (grey flat · red poor · amber fair · teal good · deep blue epic). Wave height is the model value, not the breaking face.
Wave data are model estimates (Open‑Meteo Marine, roughly 5–8 km resolution) for the open water off the coast. Local reefs, sandbars, tides and exposure change what actually breaks. Surf quality is a simple estimate from swell size, period, and wind relative to the beach; not a substitute for looking at the cam or asking a local.
🌙 Tides
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This week’s tide pattern
Water level vs. prediction
👑 King Tides Perigean spring tides
Computed from the Moon’s orbit: a king tide window opens when a new or full moon lands near the Moon’s closest approach to Earth (perigee). Dates below apply worldwide; the actual height at any beach also depends on local geography, weather and sea level.
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🌀 Tropical Systems The swell makers
Hurricanes and tropical storms in the Atlantic and Eastern/Central Pacific send long-period swell to distant coasts days later. Typhoons and cyclones in other basins are not covered here.
📘 Tides & Surf, Explained
King tides (perigean spring tides)
“King tide” is a popular, non-scientific name for the highest tides of the year in a region. Most are perigean spring tides: a new or full moon (when the Sun, Earth and Moon line up and make spring tides) that happens when the Moon is also near perigee, its closest point to Earth. The extra pull raises high tides and lowers low tides more than usual.
The effect is strongest in winter in the Northern Hemisphere because Earth is closest to the Sun in early January. King tides are normal and predictable. Alone they add only inches over a typical high tide, but a king tide plus a storm, onshore wind, low air pressure or a high sea-level anomaly can flood streets and swamp beaches, which is also why surf spots can disappear at high water.
“Kelvin tides” — Kelvin waves and sea-level anomalies
“Kelvin tide” is not an official tide type. People usually mean Kelvin waves: huge, slow ocean waves that move heat and water along the equator and then up coastlines. During El Niño, an eastward equatorial Kelvin wave reaches the Americas and turns into coastal-trapped Kelvin waves that travel toward the poles. They can lift coastal sea level by several inches (up to about a foot, 30 cm), deepen the warm surface layer, and linger for weeks.
Because they aren’t part of the astronomical tide, they aren’t in tide tables. A tide gauge shows them as a water level above prediction; that’s what our “Water level vs. prediction” panel measures at nearby NOAA gauges in the US. A Kelvin-wave lift on top of a king tide is how some of the worst “sunny-day” floods happen.
Spring tides and neap tides
Spring tides (nothing to do with the season) come around new and full moons, when the Sun and Moon pull in line: higher highs and lower lows, so a bigger tidal range and stronger currents. Neap tides come around the quarter moons, when the pulls partly cancel: a smaller range and weaker currents. The cycle repeats about every two weeks.
Proxigean spring tides
A rarer, stronger cousin of the king tide: a perigean new or full moon where the Moon is exceptionally close (a “supermoon”-class perigee). The very closest perigee-syzygy pairings happen only about once every year or two, and are marked “Exceptional” in our list.
Storm surge, wind and air pressure
Strong onshore winds push water against the coast and low pressure lets the sea surface rise (about 1 cm per hPa the pressure falls). Together this is storm surge or a smaller wind setup. It rides on top of the predicted tide, so the water can be a foot or more higher than the tide table says. That’s why a gauge reading can differ from the forecast.
Tidal range, semidiurnal and diurnal tides
Most coasts have semidiurnal tides (two highs and two lows a day, such as the US East Coast and Europe). Some have diurnal tides (one high and one low, such as parts of the Gulf of Mexico and Southeast Asia) and many have mixed tides (two unequal highs and lows, such as the US West Coast and Hawaii). Range varies from under 2 ft (microtidal, such as the Mediterranean and Hawaii) to over 15 ft (macrotidal, such as the Bay of Fundy and the English Channel).
Rip currents are not “rip tides”
A rip current is a narrow channel of water flowing out through the surf zone. It’s created by waves and sandbars, not by the tide, though it can get stronger near low tide. If caught in one, don’t fight it: swim parallel to shore until free, then angle back in, and float or wave for help if you tire.
Reading a surf report: swell height, period and direction
Period (seconds between crests) matters more than size: long-period swell (12 s+) comes from distant storms, carries more energy and makes cleaner, more powerful waves; short-period wind swell (under 8 s) is weak and messy. Direction is where the swell comes from; the beach must face it (our “swell window”). Wind matters too: offshore wind (blowing from land to sea) grooms the faces and is best, onshore wind makes them choppy. Wave heights here are for open water offshore. Waves feel bigger or smaller when they reach the break and reefs or sandbars can focus or shrink them.
How we rate surf quality
We score each hour from period (long is good), wind relative to the way the beach faces (light offshore is best, strong onshore is worst), and whether the swell comes from a direction the beach is open to. Under about a foot is “Flat”. It’s a quick estimate and only as good as the model data behind it.
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Effective date: October 15, 2026
Surf and Wave Network (“the site,” “we,” “us”) is operated by Planet Dynamic Networks LLC. This policy explains what information the site collects, how it’s used, and who else sees it. If you have questions, contact us at planetdynamicnetworks@outlook.com.
The short version
- This site does not use advertising trackers, cookies, or analytics. If that ever changes, we’ll update this policy first.
- Your searched or device location is used only to fetch surf, tide and weather data for you (and, if you allow location access, to open the surf spot closest to you). It’s sent directly from your browser to the services listed below, not stored on our servers.
- If you subscribe to the daily email briefing, we store the profile information you provide (your name, email address, postal code, and region) so we can send it and know a bit about who we’re writing to.
- We do not sell your data. If you separately check the optional box agreeing to occasional emails from ad partners, we may share your information with those partners for that purpose only; you can withdraw that permission anytime on the Do Not Sell My Data form below, whether or not you ever checked it.
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When you search a place, pick a surf spot, or use “Near me,” your browser sends that location directly to public weather, ocean and mapping services (listed below) to fetch surf conditions, tides, radar, alerts and forecasts. We don’t log or keep your location history; each request happens live in your browser for that page view only. If you subscribe to the daily email, the location shown on the page at that moment is saved with your subscription so we know which forecast to send.
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The signup form has a second, separate checkbox asking whether it’s also OK to send you occasional emails from ad partners. This is never required to get the daily briefing. If you check it, we may share your subscriber profile with those partners for that purpose. If you leave it unchecked, or later change your mind, we do not share your data for this purpose. Use the Do Not Sell My Data form to withdraw it at any time.
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The “Live Cams” section links to camera pages run by third parties (such as Surfline, explore.org, local tourism bodies and surf-community sites). We don’t embed those cameras, pass them any information about you, or receive anything from them. Once you open one, that site’s own privacy policy and terms apply, including any account, subscription or advertising it may use.
Third-party services this site relies on
To provide surf, tide and weather data and mapping features, your browser communicates directly with the public services below when you use the site. Like any website you visit, each of them can see your IP address and operates under its own privacy practices, which we encourage you to review if you have concerns:
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| NOAA Tides & Currents (CO‑OPS) | Official US tide predictions and water-level readings from tide gauges |
| National Weather Service (NOAA/NWS) | US weather, surf and coastal alerts |
| NOAA National Hurricane Center (via NOAA’s public map service) | Active tropical storm positions and strength |
| RainViewer | Radar imagery |
| Esri (ArcGIS) | Map and satellite tiles |
| BigDataCloud | Converting your coordinates to a place name |
| Google Fonts | The typefaces used on the page (Google can see your IP address when they load) |
| unpkg | Delivers the open-source Leaflet map library the maps run on |
Children’s privacy
This site is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, we’ll update the effective date above. Continued use of the site after a change means you accept the updated policy.
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🚫 Do Not Sell My Data
Effective date: October 2026
The short version: we don’t sell your data, ever, to anyone. What we do have is one optional setting (occasional emails from ad partners) that’s separate from the daily weather email and off by default unless you checked it. This form lets you turn that off (or confirm it’s already off), whether or not you’re a current subscriber.
What this covers
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Other ways to reach us about this
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