Cocoa Beach Pier Northside Surf Report & Ideal Conditions

Live NOAA data · Updated 2026-07-30
As of the latest buoy reading (2026-07-30 11:20 UTC), Cocoa Beach Pier Northside is marginal: the live 2–4 ft short-period swell from the S is off its ideal E direction and is bigger than usual, and the wind is strong from the W. Cocoa Beach Pier Northside is most often good on a 0–2 ft short-period (under 8s) swell from the E, with moderate wind from the NE, on a high outgoing tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest here.

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Best conditions for Cocoa Beach Pier Northside

Cocoa Beach Pier Northside is most often good on a 0–2 ft short-period (under 8s) swell from the E, with moderate wind from the NE, on a high outgoing tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest here.

Ideal wave height0–2 ft
Ideal periodshort-period (under 8s)
Best swell directionE
Best windmoderate wind from the NE
Best tidehigh & outgoing

These best-conditions estimates come from real sessions LazySurfer users rated highly at this break — not an editorial guess (moderate-confidence read). In the app, LazySurfer's custom deep-learning model predicts your own 1–5★ rating at about 90% exact-match accuracy (97.6% within one star). How LazySurfer works →

Current conditions

Latest reading from the nearest NOAA buoys (UTC 2026-07-30 11:20 UTC). LazySurfer reads this same public NDBC data directly — no proprietary smoothing. New to buoy data? See how to read a NOAA buoy.

Wave height2.3 ft
Dominant period4s
Swell directionS (169°)
Wave buoyNDBC station 41009 (27 mi away)
Wind10 kt from the WSW — NDBC TRDF1 (3 mi away)

Cocoa Beach Pier Northside 7-day surf forecast

Model wave & wind outlook for Cocoa Beach Pier Northside from NOAA's GEFS-Wave model, refreshed daily. Heights are open-water swell (face heights at the break are typically larger).

DaySwell heightPeriod & directionWind
Thu Jul 301–2 ft6s SSE17 kt WSW
Fri Jul 311–2 ft8s ESE13 kt SW
Sat Aug 11–2 ft9s E12 kt SSW
Sun Aug 22 ft8s E20 kt SSW
Mon Aug 32 ft8s E22 kt S
Tue Aug 42 ft8s E10 kt SSE
Wed Aug 52 ft7s E9 kt SE

Tide

Predicted tide for the next two days from NOAA station 8721604 (Port Canaveral (Trident Pier)), the nearest tide station (3 mi away). Times local.

Cocoa Beach Pier Northside tide chart for 2026-07-30 Predicted tide height in feet over two days, with high and low markers. 12a6a12p6p12a6a12p6p 3.4ft12:17a0.3ft6:46a2.6ft12:43p0.4ft6:39p3.2ft1:01a0.2ft7:26a2.7ft1:33p0.4ft7:33pNow0.23.3

Frequently asked

Is Cocoa Beach Pier Northside good for surfing right now?

As of the latest buoy reading (2026-07-30 11:20 UTC), Cocoa Beach Pier Northside is marginal: the live 2–4 ft short-period swell from the S is off its ideal E direction and is bigger than usual, and the wind is strong from the W.

Where does LazySurfer's surf data for Cocoa Beach Pier Northside come from?

LazySurfer reads public data directly from NOAA's National Data Buoy Center and the National Weather Service — the nearest NDBC wave buoy (station 41009) and the nearest NOAA tide station (Port Canaveral (Trident Pier)). The same raw readings NOAA publishes, with no proprietary smoothing.

What are the best surf conditions for Cocoa Beach Pier Northside?

Cocoa Beach Pier Northside is most often good on a 0–2 ft short-period (under 8s) swell from the E, with moderate wind from the NE, on a high outgoing tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest here.

Does LazySurfer predict whether Cocoa Beach Pier Northside is good for me?

Yes. LazySurfer trains a custom deep-learning model — a PyTorch neural network with per-user embeddings, retrained weekly on real logged surf sessions from the LazySurfer community — to predict the 1-to-5 star rating you personally would give, rather than a single average rating for everyone.

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