Seal Beach Jetty Surf Report & Ideal Conditions

Live NOAA data · Updated 2026-07-30
As of the latest buoy reading (2026-07-30 11:26 UTC), Seal Beach Jetty is marginal: the live 2–4 ft medium-period swell from the S is off its ideal W direction and is in its ideal size range, and the wind is moderate from the SE. Seal Beach Jetty is most often good on a 2–4 ft long-period groundswell (16s+) swell from the W, with light wind from the SW, on a high outgoing tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest here.

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Best conditions for Seal Beach Jetty

Seal Beach Jetty is most often good on a 2–4 ft long-period groundswell (16s+) swell from the W, with light wind from the SW, on a high outgoing tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest here.

Ideal wave height2–4 ft
Ideal periodlong-period groundswell (16s+)
Best swell directionW
Best windlight wind from the SW
Best tidehigh & outgoing

These best-conditions estimates come from real sessions LazySurfer users rated highly at this break — not an editorial guess (high-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 11:26 UTC). LazySurfer reads this same public NDBC data directly — no proprietary smoothing. New to buoy data? See how to read a NOAA buoy.

Wave height3.3 ft
Dominant period13s
Swell directionSSE (163°)
Wave buoyNDBC station 46222 (15 mi away)
Wind7 kt from the SE — NDBC PRJC1 (4 mi away)

Seal Beach Jetty 7-day surf forecast

Model wave & wind outlook for Seal Beach Jetty 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 304–5 ft14s SSW10 kt SSW
Fri Jul 314 ft14s SSW9 kt SW
Sat Aug 13–4 ft13s SSW9 kt SSW
Sun Aug 23 ft15s SW9 kt S
Mon Aug 33 ft15s SW9 kt SSW
Tue Aug 42 ft15s SW10 kt SSW
Wed Aug 52 ft14s SW10 kt S

Tide

Predicted tide for the next two days from NOAA station 9410660 (LOS ANGELES (Outer Harbor)), the nearest tide station (9 mi away). Times local.

Seal Beach Jetty tide chart for 2026-07-30 Predicted tide height in feet over two days, with high and low markers. 12a6a12p6p12a6a12p6p 4.6ft12:39a0.3ft8:28a3.7ft3:51p3.0ft8:16p4.2ft1:40a0.5ft9:12a4.0ft4:28p2.7ft9:59pNow0.34.6

Frequently asked

Is Seal Beach Jetty good for surfing right now?

As of the latest buoy reading (2026-07-30 11:26 UTC), Seal Beach Jetty is marginal: the live 2–4 ft medium-period swell from the S is off its ideal W direction and is in its ideal size range, and the wind is moderate from the SE.

Where does LazySurfer's surf data for Seal Beach Jetty 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 46222) and the nearest NOAA tide station (LOS ANGELES (Outer Harbor)). The same raw readings NOAA publishes, with no proprietary smoothing.

What are the best surf conditions for Seal Beach Jetty?

Seal Beach Jetty is most often good on a 2–4 ft long-period groundswell (16s+) swell from the W, with light wind from the SW, on a high outgoing tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest here.

Does LazySurfer predict whether Seal Beach Jetty 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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