Hightower Beach Surf Report & Ideal Conditions

Live NOAA data · Updated 2026-06-26
Hightower Beach is most often good on a 0–2 ft medium-period (8–16s) swell from the E, with light wind from the SW, on a high outgoing tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest here. Right now the nearest buoy reads about — @ — from the —.

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Best conditions for Hightower Beach

Hightower Beach is most often good on a 0–2 ft medium-period (8–16s) swell from the E, with light wind from the SW, on a high outgoing tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest here.

Ideal wave height0–2 ft
Ideal periodmedium-period (8–16s)
Best swell directionE
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 41009 (33 mi away)
Wind1 kt from the ENE — NDBC TRDF1 (15 mi away)

Hightower Beach 7-day surf forecast

Model wave & wind outlook for Hightower 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 261–2 ft5s ESE15 kt SE
Sat Jun 272 ft8s ESE12 kt SSE
Sun Jun 282 ft8s ESE11 kt S
Mon Jun 292 ft9s E13 kt SSW
Tue Jun 302 ft9s E8 kt E
Wed Jul 12 ft9s E7 kt E
Thu Jul 22 ft8s E9 kt SE

Tide

Predicted tide for the next two days from NOAA station 8721604 (Port Canaveral (Trident Pier)), the nearest tide station (15 mi away). Times local.

Hightower Beach tide chart for 2026-06-26 Predicted tide height in feet over two days, with high and low markers. 12a6a12p6p12a6a12p6p 3.4ft12:17a0.3ft6:46a2.6ft12:43p0.4ft6:39p3.2ft1:01a0.2ft7:26a2.7ft1:33p0.4ft7:33pNow0.23.3

Frequently asked

Where does LazySurfer's surf data for Hightower 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 41009) and the nearest NOAA tide station (Port Canaveral (Trident Pier)). The same raw readings NOAA publishes, with no proprietary smoothing.

What are the best surf conditions for Hightower Beach?

Hightower Beach is most often good on a 0–2 ft medium-period (8–16s) swell from the E, with light wind from the SW, on a high outgoing tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest here.

Does LazySurfer predict whether Hightower 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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