Island Beach
Ocean County, New Jersey, United States39.834, -74.087Beach break · faces ESE (110°)
Spot guide
Island Beach is an ESE-facing beach break in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. It picks up swell from ENE to SSW, and land, islands, reefs or shallow banks block about 43% of the directions it faces. Offshore wind here blows from the WNW: light winds or WNW breezes usually mean the cleanest surf, while ESE onshores chop it up.
- Break
- Beach
- Faces
- ESE (110°)
- Best swell
- ENE to SSE (70°–151°), 9 s or longer
- Best wind
- WSW to NNW offshore, or glassy
- Best surf height
- 3–6 ft at the beach
- Swell window
- ENE to SSW (64.5° to 195°)
- Offshore wind
- WNW
- Tide
- NOAA station 8533631
- Wave buoy
- Barnegat, NJ (209) · 28 km away
- Cams
- None yet
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