71st St North End Surf Report & Ideal Conditions
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71st St North End is most often good on a 2–4 ft medium-period (8–16s) swell from the E, with moderate wind from the NE, on a mid outgoing tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest here.
| Ideal wave height | 2–4 ft |
| Ideal period | medium-period (8–16s) |
| Best swell direction | E |
| Best wind | moderate wind from the NE |
| Best tide | mid & 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 2026-06-07 00:56 UTC). LazySurfer reads this same public NDBC data directly — no proprietary smoothing. New to buoy data? See how to read a NOAA buoy. A multi-day forecast for this spot is coming soon; for now these readings update continuously.
| Wave height | 3.0 ft |
| Dominant period | 9s |
| Swell direction | ESE (102°) |
| Wave buoy | NDBC station 44099 (24 km away) |
| Wind | 5 kt from the SW — NDBC CHYV2 (4 km away) |
Tide
Predicted tide for the next two days from NOAA station 8638901 (CBBT, CHESAPEAKE CHANNEL), the nearest tide station (17 km away). Times local.
- 2026-06-06 00:39 — High 2.625 ft
- 2026-06-06 07:00 — Low 0.376 ft
- 2026-06-06 13:09 — High 2.324 ft
- 2026-06-06 19:10 — Low 0.543 ft
- 2026-06-07 01:23 — High 2.552 ft
- 2026-06-07 07:46 — Low 0.33 ft
Frequently asked
Is 71st St North End good for surfing right now?
As of the latest buoy reading (2026-06-07 00:56 UTC), 71st St North End is looking good: the live 2–4 ft medium-period swell from the E matches its ideal E direction and is in its ideal size range, and the wind is light from the SW.
Where does LazySurfer's surf data for 71st St North End 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 44099) and the nearest NOAA tide station (CBBT, CHESAPEAKE CHANNEL). The same raw readings NOAA publishes, with no proprietary smoothing.
What are the best surf conditions for 71st St North End?
71st St North End is most often good on a 2–4 ft medium-period (8–16s) swell from the E, with moderate wind from the NE, on a mid outgoing tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest here.
Does LazySurfer predict whether 71st St North End 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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- 1st St Jetty — 8 km
- 1st St Jetty to Pier — 8 km
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