8th St Surf Report & Ideal Conditions
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8th St is most often good on a 2–4 ft medium-period (8–16s) swell from the E, with light wind from the NW, 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 | light wind from the NW |
| 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 | 2.3 ft |
| Dominant period | 9s |
| Swell direction | E (85°) |
| Wave buoy | NDBC station 44084 (22 km away) |
| Wind | 10 kt from the SSW — NDBC OCIM2 (1 km away) |
Tide
Predicted tide for the next two days from NOAA station 8570283 (Ocean City Inlet), the nearest tide station (1 km away). Times local.
- 2026-06-06 00:25 — High 2.323 ft
- 2026-06-06 06:46 — Low 0.514 ft
- 2026-06-06 12:46 — High 1.83 ft
- 2026-06-06 18:34 — Low 0.437 ft
- 2026-06-07 01:09 — High 2.25 ft
- 2026-06-07 07:27 — Low 0.464 ft
Frequently asked
Is 8th St good for surfing right now?
As of the latest buoy reading (2026-06-07 00:56 UTC), 8th St 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 strong from the SW.
Where does LazySurfer's surf data for 8th St 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 44084) and the nearest NOAA tide station (Ocean City Inlet). The same raw readings NOAA publishes, with no proprietary smoothing.
What are the best surf conditions for 8th St?
8th St is most often good on a 2–4 ft medium-period (8–16s) swell from the E, with light wind from the NW, on a mid outgoing tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest here.
Does LazySurfer predict whether 8th St 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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