Surfside Beach

Surfside Beach is an SW-facing beach break in Seal Beach, California, United States. It picks up swell from SSE to S and S to SSW and WSW to W, and land, islands, reefs or shallow banks block about 75% of the directions it faces. Offshore wind here blows from the NE: light winds or NE breezes usually mean the cleanest surf, while SW onshores chop it up.

Rare slot: the San Pedro Channel 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 134 km out. How slot swells work

Break

Beach

Faces

SW (217°)

Best swell

S to SSW (183°–193°), 9 s or longer

Best wind

N to E offshore, or glassy

Best surf height

3–6 ft at the beach

Swell window

SSE to S (152° to 181.5°); S to SSW (183° to 192.5°); WSW to W (256.5° to 271.5°)

Rare slot

San Pedro Channel, 244.8° WSW

Offshore wind

NE

Tide

NOAA station TWC0427

Wave buoy

San Pedro South, CA (213) · 19 km away

Cams

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