Carpinteria State Beach Surf Report & Ideal Conditions

Live NOAA data · Updated 2026-06-26
Carpinteria State Beach is most often good on a 4–6 ft medium-period (8–16s) swell from the W, with light wind from the SW, on a high outgoing tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest across the surrounding region. Right now the nearest buoy reads about — @ — from the —.

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Best conditions for Carpinteria State Beach

Carpinteria State Beach is most often good on a 4–6 ft medium-period (8–16s) swell from the W, with light wind from the SW, on a high outgoing tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest across the surrounding region.

Ideal wave height4–6 ft
Ideal periodmedium-period (8–16s)
Best swell directionW
Best windlight wind from the SW
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 2026-06-26 11:40 UTC). LazySurfer reads this same public NDBC data directly — no proprietary smoothing. New to buoy data? See how to read a NOAA buoy.

Wave height
Dominant period
Swell direction
Wave buoyNDBC station 46053 (21 mi away)
Wind5 kt from the ENE — NDBC NTBC1 (10 mi away)

Carpinteria State Beach 7-day surf forecast

Model wave & wind outlook for Carpinteria State 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
Fri Jun 262–3 ft16s SSW9 kt SSW
Sat Jun 272–5 ft14s SW8 kt WSW
Sun Jun 283–4 ft16s SSW8 kt W
Mon Jun 293–4 ft14s SW9 kt S
Tue Jun 302–3 ft18s SSW8 kt S
Wed Jul 12 ft17s SSW8 kt SE
Thu Jul 22 ft16s SSW8 kt SSW

Tide

Predicted tide for the next two days from NOAA station 9411340 (Santa Barbara), the nearest tide station (10 mi away). Times local.

Carpinteria State Beach tide chart for 2026-06-26 Predicted tide height in feet over two days, with high and low markers. 12a6a12p6p12a6a12p6p 4.6ft1:01a0.2ft8:52a3.7ft4:18p3.0ft8:41p4.1ft2:01a0.5ft9:36a4.0ft4:53p2.6ft10:28pNow0.24.6

Frequently asked

Where does LazySurfer's surf data for Carpinteria State 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 46053) and the nearest NOAA tide station (Santa Barbara). The same raw readings NOAA publishes, with no proprietary smoothing.

What are the best surf conditions for Carpinteria State Beach?

Carpinteria State Beach is most often good on a 4–6 ft medium-period (8–16s) swell from the W, with light wind from the SW, on a high outgoing tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest across the surrounding region.

Does LazySurfer predict whether Carpinteria State 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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