Newport Pier Northside Surf Report & Ideal Conditions

Live NOAA data · Updated 2026-07-17
As of the latest buoy reading (2026-07-17 10:26 UTC), Newport Pier Northside is fair: the live 2–4 ft short-period swell from the W matches its ideal W direction and is in its ideal size range, and the wind is strong from the SE. Newport Pier Northside is most often good on a 2–4 ft medium-period (8–16s) swell from the W, with light wind from the SW, on a high incoming tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest here.

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Best conditions for Newport Pier Northside

Newport Pier Northside is most often good on a 2–4 ft medium-period (8–16s) swell from the W, with light wind from the SW, on a high incoming tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest here.

Ideal wave height2–4 ft
Ideal periodmedium-period (8–16s)
Best swell directionW
Best windlight wind from the SW
Best tidehigh & incoming

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 2026-07-17 10:26 UTC). LazySurfer reads this same public NDBC data directly — no proprietary smoothing. New to buoy data? See how to read a NOAA buoy.

Wave height3.3 ft
Dominant period8s
Swell directionW (274°)
Wave buoyNDBC station 46253 (15 mi away)
Wind11 kt from the SE — NDBC PRJC1 (17 mi away)

Newport Pier Northside 7-day surf forecast

Model wave & wind outlook for Newport Pier Northside 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 Jul 173 ft17s SW10 kt SSE
Sat Jul 183 ft17s SW9 kt S
Sun Jul 193–5 ft15s SSW7 kt SSW
Mon Jul 205 ft15s SSW10 kt SSW
Tue Jul 214–5 ft15s SSW10 kt SW
Wed Jul 224–5 ft15s SSW14 kt W
Thu Jul 234–6 ft13s S8 kt SSE

Tide

Predicted tide for the next two days from NOAA station 9410660 (LOS ANGELES (Outer Harbor)), the nearest tide station (21 mi away). Times local.

Newport Pier Northside tide chart for 2026-07-17 Predicted tide height in feet over two days, with high and low markers. 12a6a12p6p12a6a12p6p 4.6ft12:39a0.3ft8:28a3.7ft3:51p3.0ft8:16p4.2ft1:40a0.5ft9:12a4.0ft4:28p2.7ft9:59pNow0.34.6

Frequently asked

Is Newport Pier Northside good for surfing right now?

As of the latest buoy reading (2026-07-17 10:26 UTC), Newport Pier Northside is fair: the live 2–4 ft short-period swell from the W matches its ideal W direction and is in its ideal size range, and the wind is strong from the SE.

Where does LazySurfer's surf data for Newport Pier Northside 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 46253) and the nearest NOAA tide station (LOS ANGELES (Outer Harbor)). The same raw readings NOAA publishes, with no proprietary smoothing.

What are the best surf conditions for Newport Pier Northside?

Newport Pier Northside is most often good on a 2–4 ft medium-period (8–16s) swell from the W, with light wind from the SW, on a high incoming tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest here.

Does LazySurfer predict whether Newport Pier Northside 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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