Maverick's Surf Report & Ideal Conditions

Best conditions for Maverick's

Maverick's is most often good on a 2–4 ft medium-period (8–16s) swell from the W, with light wind from the N, on a high incoming tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest across the surrounding region.

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 2026-06-07 01:00 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.

Tide

Predicted tide for the next two days from NOAA station 9414523 (Redwood City, Wharf 5), the nearest tide station (16 mi away). Times local.

• 2026-06-06 04:06 — High 7.012 ft
• 2026-06-06 11:11 — Low 0.15 ft
• 2026-06-06 18:18 — High 6.778 ft
• 2026-06-06 23:51 — Low 3.286 ft
• 2026-06-07 05:07 — High 6.553 ft
• 2026-06-07 11:56 — Low 0.52 ft

Frequently asked

Is Maverick's good for surfing right now?

As of the latest buoy reading (2026-06-07 01:00 UTC), Maverick's is fair: the live 6 ft+ medium-period swell from the W matches its ideal W direction and is bigger than usual, and the wind is strong from the SW.

Where does LazySurfer's surf data for Maverick's 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 46237) and the nearest NOAA tide station (Redwood City, Wharf 5). The same raw readings NOAA publishes, with no proprietary smoothing.

What are the best surf conditions for Maverick's?

Maverick's is most often good on a 2–4 ft medium-period (8–16s) swell from the W, with light wind from the N, on a high incoming tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest across the surrounding region.

Does LazySurfer predict whether Maverick's 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

• South Ocean Beach — 17 mi
• Central Ocean Beach — 18 mi
• Steamer Lane — 46 mi
• Capitola — 47 mi
• Pleasure Point — 47 mi

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