Old Orchard Beach Surf Report & Ideal Conditions
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Old Orchard Beach is most often good on a 0–2 ft short-period (under 8s) swell from the SE, with light wind from the SE, on a high incoming tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest here.
| Ideal wave height | 0–2 ft |
| Ideal period | short-period (under 8s) |
| Best swell direction | SE |
| Best wind | light wind from the SE |
| Best tide | high & 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 2026-06-07 00:50 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 height | 2.3 ft |
| Dominant period | 8s |
| Swell direction | SSE (153°) |
| Wave buoy | NDBC station 44007 (19 km away) |
| Wind | 5 kt from the E — NDBC CASM1 (19 km away) |
Tide
Predicted tide for the next two days from NOAA station 8418150 (PORTLAND), the nearest tide station (19 km away). Times local.
- 2026-06-06 03:28 — High 9.216 ft
- 2026-06-06 09:54 — Low 0.66 ft
- 2026-06-06 16:15 — High 8.391 ft
- 2026-06-06 22:06 — Low 1.763 ft
- 2026-06-07 04:15 — High 9.063 ft
- 2026-06-07 10:38 — Low 0.699 ft
Frequently asked
Is Old Orchard Beach good for surfing right now?
As of the latest buoy reading (2026-06-07 00:50 UTC), Old Orchard Beach is fair: the live 2–4 ft short-period swell from the SE matches its ideal SE direction and is bigger than usual, and the wind is light from the E.
Where does LazySurfer's surf data for Old Orchard Beach 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 44007) and the nearest NOAA tide station (PORTLAND). The same raw readings NOAA publishes, with no proprietary smoothing.
What are the best surf conditions for Old Orchard Beach?
Old Orchard Beach is most often good on a 0–2 ft short-period (under 8s) swell from the SE, with light wind from the SE, on a high incoming tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest here.
Does LazySurfer predict whether Old Orchard Beach 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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