Hollywood Beach

Hollywood Beach is a WSW-facing beach break in Oxnard Beach, California, United States. It picks up swell from SSE and S and W to WNW, and land, islands, reefs or shallow banks block about 72% of the directions it faces. Offshore wind here blows from the ENE: light winds or ENE breezes usually mean the cleanest surf, while WSW onshores chop it up.

Rare slot: the Santa Barbara Channel lets in swell from 199.5° (SSW) and nothing either side. It only lines up when a storm sits in that exact direction, more than 102 km out. How slot swells work

Rare slot: the Santa Barbara Channel lets in swell from 231.5° (SW) and nothing either side. It only lines up when a storm sits in that exact direction, more than 32 km out. How slot swells work

Break

Beach

Faces

WSW (248°)

Best swell

W to WNW (266°–287°), 9 s or longer

Best wind

NNE to ESE offshore, or glassy

Best surf height

3–6 ft at the beach

Swell window

SSE (154.5° to 162.5°); S (171.5° to 187.5°); W to WNW (266.5° to 287°)

Rare slot

Santa Barbara Channel, 199.5° SSW

Rare slot

Santa Barbara Channel, 231.5° SW

Offshore wind

ENE

Tide

NOAA station TWC0445

Wave buoy

EAST SANTA BARBARA - 12NM Southwest of Santa Barbara, CA · 57 km away

Cams

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