Kitty Hawk Pier Surf Report & Ideal Conditions

Live NOAA data · Updated 2026-06-26
As of the latest buoy reading (2026-06-26 11:30 UTC), Kitty Hawk Pier is fair: the live 0–2 ft short-period swell from the SE matches its ideal SE direction and is in its ideal size range, and the wind is strong from the SW. Kitty Hawk Pier is most often good on a 0–2 ft medium-period (8–16s) swell from the SE, with light wind from the S, on a high incoming tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest here.

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Best conditions for Kitty Hawk Pier

Kitty Hawk Pier is most often good on a 0–2 ft medium-period (8–16s) swell from the SE, with light wind from the S, on a high incoming tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest here.

Ideal wave height0–2 ft
Ideal periodmedium-period (8–16s)
Best swell directionSE
Best windlight wind from the S
Best tidehigh & 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 2026-06-26 11:30 UTC). LazySurfer reads this same public NDBC data directly — no proprietary smoothing. New to buoy data? See how to read a NOAA buoy.

Wave height1.6 ft
Dominant period4s
Swell directionSE (131°)
Wave buoyNDBC station 44056 (7 mi away)
Wind11 kt from the WSW — NDBC DUKN7 (6 mi away)

Kitty Hawk Pier 7-day surf forecast

Model wave & wind outlook for Kitty Hawk Pier 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 ft6s SE13 kt SSW
Sat Jun 271–2 ft7s SE14 kt WSW
Sun Jun 281 ft10s E9 kt ENE
Mon Jun 291–2 ft9s E11 kt ENE
Tue Jun 302 ft9s E11 kt E
Wed Jul 12–3 ft7s ESE14 kt SW
Thu Jul 21–2 ft8s E13 kt N

Tide

Predicted tide for the next two days from NOAA station 8651370 (DUCK PIER), the nearest tide station (6 mi away). Times local.

Kitty Hawk Pier tide chart for 2026-06-26 Predicted tide height in feet over two days, with high and low markers. 12a6a12p6p12a6a12p6p 0.3ft6:12a2.7ft12:16p0.7ft6:19p3.1ft12:24a0.3ft6:55a2.9ft1:03p0.7ft7:15pNow0.33.2

Frequently asked

Is Kitty Hawk Pier good for surfing right now?

As of the latest buoy reading (2026-06-26 11:30 UTC), Kitty Hawk Pier is fair: the live 0–2 ft short-period swell from the SE matches its ideal SE direction and is in its ideal size range, and the wind is strong from the SW.

Where does LazySurfer's surf data for Kitty Hawk Pier 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 44056) and the nearest NOAA tide station (DUCK PIER). The same raw readings NOAA publishes, with no proprietary smoothing.

What are the best surf conditions for Kitty Hawk Pier?

Kitty Hawk Pier is most often good on a 0–2 ft medium-period (8–16s) swell from the SE, with light wind from the S, on a high incoming tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest here.

Does LazySurfer predict whether Kitty Hawk Pier 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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