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Newport Beach · beach break
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Consistent beach break peaks near the pier, popular with longboarders.
Waist-high, clean, well-organized — worth the drive for intermediates.
🌅 Best window today: 6:00-8:00 AM — light wind, ~5 mph
📈 Today's the peak of the current swell (~3-5 ft) — it eases up after this.
Live camera
Feed: Blackie's By The Sea, live surf cam
Swell
3.3 ft
@ 17s · 72.7°F water
Buoy: San Pedro South, CA (213)
Tide
- Low 3:29 AM (-0.4 ft)
- High 9:59 AM (3.6 ft)
- Low 2:24 PM (2.5 ft)
- High 8:29 PM (5.8 ft)
Station: Balboa Pier, Newport Beach
Weather
69°F
Patchy Fog
Wind 5 mph S
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