North Padre Seawall Surf Report & Ideal Conditions

Live NOAA data · Updated 2026-06-06
As of the latest buoy reading (2026-06-07 00:30 UTC), North Padre Seawall is fair: the live 2–4 ft short-period swell from the E is off its ideal SE direction and is in its ideal size range, and the wind is strong from the SE. North Padre Seawall is most often good on a 2–4 ft short-period (under 8s) swell from the SE, with strong wind from the E, on a mid outgoing tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest here.

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Best conditions for North Padre Seawall

North Padre Seawall is most often good on a 2–4 ft short-period (under 8s) swell from the SE, with strong wind from the E, on a mid outgoing tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest here.

Ideal wave height2–4 ft
Ideal periodshort-period (under 8s)
Best swell directionSE
Best windstrong wind from the E
Best tidemid & 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 2026-06-07 00:30 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 height3.6 ft
Dominant period8s
Swell directionE (86°)
Wave buoyNDBC station 42092 (20 km away)
Wind13 kt from the SSE — NDBC PACT2 (4 km away)

Tide

Predicted tide for the next two days from NOAA station 8775870 (Corpus Christi, Bob Hall Pier), the nearest tide station (3 km away). Times local.

North Padre Seawall tide chart for 2026-06-06 Predicted tide height in feet over two days, with high and low markers. 12a6a12p6p12a6a12p6p 0.0ft1:04a1.6ft10:11a0.2ft1:45a1.4ft10:16aNow0.01.6

Frequently asked

Is North Padre Seawall good for surfing right now?

As of the latest buoy reading (2026-06-07 00:30 UTC), North Padre Seawall is fair: the live 2–4 ft short-period swell from the E is off its ideal SE direction and is in its ideal size range, and the wind is strong from the SE.

Where does LazySurfer's surf data for North Padre Seawall 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 42092) and the nearest NOAA tide station (Corpus Christi, Bob Hall Pier). The same raw readings NOAA publishes, with no proprietary smoothing.

What are the best surf conditions for North Padre Seawall?

North Padre Seawall is most often good on a 2–4 ft short-period (under 8s) swell from the SE, with strong wind from the E, on a mid outgoing tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest here.

Does LazySurfer predict whether North Padre Seawall 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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