Spring Ave Surf Report & Ideal Conditions

Live NOAA data · Updated 2026-07-30
As of the latest buoy reading (2026-07-30 11:30 UTC), Spring Ave is marginal: the live 2–4 ft short-period swell from the W matches its ideal W direction and is under its usual size, and the wind is strong from the W. Spring Ave is most often good on a 4–6 ft medium-period (8–16s) swell from the W, with strong wind from the NW, on a high outgoing tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest across the surrounding region.

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Best conditions for Spring Ave

Spring Ave is most often good on a 4–6 ft medium-period (8–16s) swell from the W, with strong wind from the NW, on a high outgoing tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest across the surrounding region.

Ideal wave height4–6 ft
Ideal periodmedium-period (8–16s)
Best swell directionW
Best windstrong wind from the NW
Best tidehigh & outgoing

These best-conditions estimates come from real sessions LazySurfer users rated highly at this break — not an editorial guess (preliminary-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 11:30 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 period5s
Swell directionWNW (283°)
Wave buoyNDBC station 42098 (13 mi away)
Wind13 kt from the WNW — NDBC MTBF1 (13 mi away)

Spring Ave 7-day surf forecast

Model wave & wind outlook for Spring Ave 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 302 ft4s WSW13 kt WSW
Fri Jul 312 ft4s W13 kt W
Sat Aug 11–2 ft4s W11 kt W
Sun Aug 21–2 ft5s W11 kt WSW
Mon Aug 31 ft5s W17 kt SW
Tue Aug 41 ft4s W15 kt WSW
Wed Aug 51 ft4s W10 kt ESE

Tide

Predicted tide for the next two days from NOAA station 8726384 (Port Manatee), the nearest tide station (13 mi away). Times local.

Spring Ave tide chart for 2026-07-30 Predicted tide height in feet over two days, with high and low markers. 12a6a12p6p12a6a12p6p 0.0ft12:29a1.5ft7:46a1.3ft10:57a2.1ft5:11p0.2ft1:14a1.6ft8:19a1.3ft12:57p1.8ft6:30pNow0.02.1

Frequently asked

Is Spring Ave good for surfing right now?

As of the latest buoy reading (2026-07-30 11:30 UTC), Spring Ave is marginal: the live 2–4 ft short-period swell from the W matches its ideal W direction and is under its usual size, and the wind is strong from the W.

Where does LazySurfer's surf data for Spring Ave 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 42098) and the nearest NOAA tide station (Port Manatee). The same raw readings NOAA publishes, with no proprietary smoothing.

What are the best surf conditions for Spring Ave?

Spring Ave is most often good on a 4–6 ft medium-period (8–16s) swell from the W, with strong wind from the NW, on a high outgoing tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest across the surrounding region.

Does LazySurfer predict whether Spring Ave 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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