Oceanside Harbor South Jetty Surf Report & Ideal Conditions

Live NOAA data · Updated 2026-07-30
As of the latest buoy reading (2026-07-30 11:26 UTC), Oceanside Harbor South Jetty is marginal: the live 4–6 ft medium-period swell from the S is off its ideal W direction and is bigger than usual, and the wind is light from the NE. Oceanside Harbor South Jetty is most often good on a 2–4 ft medium-period (8–16s) swell from the W, with light wind from the W, on a high outgoing tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest here.

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Best conditions for Oceanside Harbor South Jetty

Oceanside Harbor South Jetty is most often good on a 2–4 ft medium-period (8–16s) swell from the W, with light wind from the W, on a high outgoing tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest here.

Ideal wave height2–4 ft
Ideal periodmedium-period (8–16s)
Best swell directionW
Best windlight wind from the W
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 height4.3 ft
Dominant period12s
Swell directionS (183°)
Wave buoyNDBC station 46224 (5 mi away)
Wind4 kt from the NE — NDBC LJPC1 (25 mi away)

Oceanside Harbor South Jetty 7-day surf forecast

Model wave & wind outlook for Oceanside Harbor South 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 305 ft14s SSW9 kt WSW
Fri Jul 314–5 ft14s SSW8 kt W
Sat Aug 14 ft13s SSW6 kt SW
Sun Aug 23–4 ft15s SW8 kt SSW
Mon Aug 33 ft15s SW7 kt SSW
Tue Aug 42–3 ft15s SW6 kt SSW
Wed Aug 52 ft14s SW7 kt SSW

Tide

Predicted tide for the next two days from NOAA station 9410230 (La Jolla (Scripps Institution Wharf)), the nearest tide station (25 mi away). Times local.

Oceanside Harbor South Jetty tide chart for 2026-07-30 Predicted tide height in feet over two days, with high and low markers. 12a6a12p6p12a6a12p6p 4.5ft12:31a0.3ft8:19a3.5ft3:39p2.9ft8:02p4.0ft1:31a0.5ft9:04a3.9ft4:19p2.6ft9:48pNow0.34.5

Frequently asked

Is Oceanside Harbor South Jetty good for surfing right now?

As of the latest buoy reading (2026-07-30 11:26 UTC), Oceanside Harbor South Jetty is marginal: the live 4–6 ft medium-period swell from the S is off its ideal W direction and is bigger than usual, and the wind is light from the NE.

Where does LazySurfer's surf data for Oceanside Harbor South 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 46224) and the nearest NOAA tide station (La Jolla (Scripps Institution Wharf)). The same raw readings NOAA publishes, with no proprietary smoothing.

What are the best surf conditions for Oceanside Harbor South Jetty?

Oceanside Harbor South Jetty is most often good on a 2–4 ft medium-period (8–16s) swell from the W, with light wind from the W, on a high outgoing tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest here.

Does LazySurfer predict whether Oceanside Harbor South 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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