Hooper Beach
Capitola, California, United States36.969, -121.955Beach break · faces SSW (210°)
Spot guide
Hooper Beach is an SSW-facing beach break in Capitola, California, United States. It picks up swell from S to W, and land, islands, reefs or shallow banks block about 62% of the directions it faces. Offshore wind here blows from the NNE: light winds or NNE breezes usually mean the cleanest surf, while SSW onshores chop it up.
- Break
- Beach
- Faces
- SSW (210°)
- Best swell
- S to WSW (183°–251°), 9 s or longer
- Best wind
- NNW to ENE offshore, or glassy
- Best surf height
- 3–6 ft at the beach
- Swell window
- S to W (183.5° to 271.5°)
- Offshore wind
- NNE
- Tide
- NOAA station 9413745
- Wave buoy
- Monterey Canyon Outer, CA (156) · 23 km away
- Cams
- None yet
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