Hazard Beach
Newport, Rhode Island, United States41.458, -71.327Beach break · faces SSE (163°)
Spot guide
Hazard Beach is an SSE-facing beach break in Newport, Rhode Island, United States. It picks up swell from ESE to SSW, and land, islands, reefs or shallow banks block about 57% of the directions it faces. Offshore wind here blows from the NNW: light winds or NNW breezes usually mean the cleanest surf, while SSE onshores chop it up.
- Break
- Beach
- Faces
- SSE (163°)
- Best swell
- ESE to SSW (123°–204°), 9 s or longer
- Best wind
- WNW to NNE offshore, or glassy
- Best surf height
- 3–6 ft at the beach
- Swell window
- ESE to SSW (116.5° to 212°)
- Offshore wind
- NNW
- Tide
- NOAA station 8453999
- Wave buoy
- Buzzards Bay, MA (260) · 26 km away
- Cams
- None yet
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