Salt Creek Beach

Salt Creek Beach is a WSW-facing beach break in Dana Point, California, United States. It picks up swell from SSE to S and S to SW, and land, islands, reefs or shallow banks block about 66% 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: a Channel Islands gap lets in swell from 244.8° (WSW) and nothing either side. It only lines up when a storm sits in that exact direction, more than 92 km out. How slot swells work

Rare slot: the San Pedro Channel lets in swell from 278° (W) and nothing either side. It only lines up when a storm sits in that exact direction, more than 222 km out. How slot swells work

Break

Beach

Faces

WSW (240°)

Best swell

SSW to SW (200°–217°), 9 s or longer

Best wind

NNE to ESE offshore, or glassy

Best surf height

3–6 ft at the beach

Swell window

SSE to S (159° to 185.5°); S to SW (187.5° to 217.5°)

Rare slot

Channel Islands gap, 244.8° WSW

Rare slot

San Pedro Channel, 278° W

Offshore wind

ENE

Tide

NOAA station TWC0419

Wave buoy

Capistrano Beach Nearshore, CA (284) · 5 km away

Cams

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