Lincoln City Surf Report & Ideal Conditions
See your personalized forecast for Lincoln City
Download LazySurfer free and get surf-quality ratings tuned to the way you surf — learned from your own logged sessions.
Download LazySurfer →Best conditions for Lincoln City
Lincoln City is most often good on a 2–4 ft short-period (under 8s) swell from the W, with glassy / no wind from the S, on a high outgoing tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest here.
| Ideal wave height | 2–4 ft |
| Ideal period | short-period (under 8s) |
| Best swell direction | W |
| Best wind | glassy / no wind from the S |
| Best tide | high & 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 2026-07-16 11:00 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 buoy | NDBC station 46050 (32 mi away) |
| Wind | 5 kt from the S — NDBC NWPO3 (24 mi away) |
Lincoln City 7-day surf forecast
Model wave & wind outlook for Lincoln City from NOAA's GEFS-Wave model, refreshed daily. Heights are open-water swell (face heights at the break are typically larger).
| Day | Swell height | Period & direction | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thu Jul 16 | 4–5 ft | 16s W | 7 kt W |
| Fri Jul 17 | 5–6 ft | 16s W | 9 kt N |
| Sat Jul 18 | 5–6 ft | 16s WNW | 11 kt N |
| Sun Jul 19 | 6–7 ft | 12s WNW | 11 kt N |
| Mon Jul 20 | 6–7 ft | 8s NW | 8 kt N |
| Tue Jul 21 | 5–6 ft | 8s NW | 5 kt NNW |
| Wed Jul 22 | 5 ft | 9s NW | 8 kt N |
Tide
Predicted tide for the next two days from NOAA station 9435380 (Southbeach), the nearest tide station (23 mi away). Times local.
- 2026-06-06 04:08 — High 6.758 ft
- 2026-06-06 11:04 — Low -0.033 ft
- 2026-06-06 18:06 — High 6.426 ft
- 2026-06-06 23:32 — Low 3.422 ft
- 2026-06-07 05:04 — High 6.223 ft
- 2026-06-07 11:48 — Low 0.388 ft
Frequently asked
Where does LazySurfer's surf data for Lincoln City 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 46050) and the nearest NOAA tide station (Southbeach). The same raw readings NOAA publishes, with no proprietary smoothing.
What are the best surf conditions for Lincoln City?
Lincoln City is most often good on a 2–4 ft short-period (under 8s) swell from the W, with glassy / no wind from the S, on a high outgoing tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest here.
Does LazySurfer predict whether Lincoln City 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.
Nearby spots
- Otter Rock — 14 mi
- Beverly Beach — 16 mi
- Agate Beach — 21 mi
- Newport — 22 mi
- Rockaway Beach — 45 mi
Learn more: How LazySurfer works · Groundswell vs windswell · Surf period explained · Compare surf apps