Jalama Surf Report & Ideal Conditions
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Jalama is most often good on a 4–6 ft medium-period (8–16s) swell from the NW, with light wind from the NE, on a high incoming tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest here.
| Ideal wave height | 4–6 ft |
| Ideal period | medium-period (8–16s) |
| Best swell direction | NW |
| Best wind | light wind from the NE |
| Best tide | high & incoming |
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 | 11.8 ft |
| Dominant period | 11s |
| Swell direction | NW (317°) |
| Wave buoy | NDBC station 46218 (16 mi away) |
| Wind | 25 kt from the N — NDBC PTGC1 (9 mi away) |
Tide
Predicted tide for the next two days from NOAA station 9411406 (Oil Platform Harvest), the nearest tide station (11 mi away). Times local.
- 2026-06-06 01:16 — High 4.358 ft
- 2026-06-06 09:06 — Low 0.064 ft
- 2026-06-06 16:35 — High 3.59 ft
- 2026-06-06 21:03 — Low 2.908 ft
- 2026-06-07 02:17 — High 3.924 ft
- 2026-06-07 09:48 — Low 0.355 ft
Frequently asked
Is Jalama good for surfing right now?
As of the latest buoy reading (2026-06-07 00:56 UTC), Jalama is fair: the live 6 ft+ medium-period swell from the NW matches its ideal NW direction and is bigger than usual, and the wind is strong from the N.
Where does LazySurfer's surf data for Jalama 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 46218) and the nearest NOAA tide station (Oil Platform Harvest). The same raw readings NOAA publishes, with no proprietary smoothing.
What are the best surf conditions for Jalama?
Jalama is most often good on a 4–6 ft medium-period (8–16s) swell from the NW, with light wind from the NE, on a high incoming tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest here.
Does LazySurfer predict whether Jalama 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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