Long Sands Beach Surf Report & Ideal Conditions

Live NOAA data · Updated 2026-07-30
As of the latest buoy reading (2026-07-30 11:00 UTC), Long Sands Beach is off: the live 4–6 ft short-period swell from the E is off its ideal SE direction and is bigger than usual, and the wind is strong from the E. Long Sands Beach is most often good on a 2–4 ft medium-period (8–16s) swell from the SE, with strong wind from the N, on a high incoming tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest here.

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Best conditions for Long Sands Beach

Long Sands Beach is most often good on a 2–4 ft medium-period (8–16s) swell from the SE, with strong wind from the N, on a high incoming tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest here.

Ideal wave height2–4 ft
Ideal periodmedium-period (8–16s)
Best swell directionSE
Best windstrong wind from the N
Best tidehigh & incoming

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 11:00 UTC). LazySurfer reads this same public NDBC data directly — no proprietary smoothing. New to buoy data? See how to read a NOAA buoy.

Wave height5.9 ft
Dominant period7s
Swell directionE (84°)
Wave buoyNDBC station 44098 (54 km away)
Wind20 kt from the E — NDBC CMLN3 (12 km away)

Long Sands Beach 7-day surf forecast

Model wave & wind outlook for Long Sands Beach 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 ft7s ESE14 kt NNE
Fri Jul 312–3 ft8s SE13 kt WSW
Sat Aug 12–3 ft8s SE10 kt SSW
Sun Aug 22–4 ft5s SSE14 kt SSW
Mon Aug 32–3 ft7s SSE10 kt SW
Tue Aug 42 ft8s SSE12 kt ENE
Wed Aug 51–2 ft6s SSE9 kt SW

Tide

Predicted tide for the next two days from NOAA station 8419870 (Seavey Island), the nearest tide station (14 km away). Times local.

Long Sands Beach tide chart for 2026-07-30 Predicted tide height in feet over two days, with high and low markers. 12a6a12p6p12a6a12p6p 8.4ft3:43a0.6ft10:05a7.6ft4:27p1.5ft10:18p8.2ft4:31a0.7ft10:49a7.8ft5:12pNow0.68.3

Frequently asked

Is Long Sands Beach good for surfing right now?

As of the latest buoy reading (2026-07-30 11:00 UTC), Long Sands Beach is off: the live 4–6 ft short-period swell from the E is off its ideal SE direction and is bigger than usual, and the wind is strong from the E.

Where does LazySurfer's surf data for Long Sands Beach 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 44098) and the nearest NOAA tide station (Seavey Island). The same raw readings NOAA publishes, with no proprietary smoothing.

What are the best surf conditions for Long Sands Beach?

Long Sands Beach is most often good on a 2–4 ft medium-period (8–16s) swell from the SE, with strong wind from the N, on a high incoming tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest here.

Does LazySurfer predict whether Long Sands Beach 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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