Playa Hermosa South Surf Report & Ideal Conditions

Best conditions for Playa Hermosa South

Playa Hermosa South is most often good on a 6 ft+ short-period (under 8s) swell from the E, with strong wind from the NE, on a mid incoming tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest here.

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.

Tide

Predicted tide for the next two days from NOAA station 8724580 (KEY WEST), the nearest tide station (1692 km away). Times local.

• 2026-06-06 03:13 — High 1.071 ft
• 2026-06-06 07:40 — Low 0.666 ft
• 2026-06-06 14:19 — High 1.541 ft
• 2026-06-06 21:08 — Low 0.102 ft
• 2026-06-07 03:55 — High 1.163 ft
• 2026-06-07 08:58 — Low 0.631 ft

Frequently asked

Is Playa Hermosa South good for surfing right now?

As of the latest buoy reading (2026-06-07 00:50 UTC), Playa Hermosa South is fair: the live 4–6 ft short-period swell from the E matches its ideal E direction and is under its usual size, and the wind is strong from the E.

Where does LazySurfer's surf data for Playa Hermosa South 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 42057) and the nearest NOAA tide station (KEY WEST). The same raw readings NOAA publishes, with no proprietary smoothing.

What are the best surf conditions for Playa Hermosa South?

Playa Hermosa South is most often good on a 6 ft+ short-period (under 8s) swell from the E, with strong wind from the NE, on a mid incoming tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest here.

Does LazySurfer predict whether Playa Hermosa South 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

• Playa Jaco — 5 km
• Guiones — 123 km
• Playa Grande — 158 km
• Santana — 263 km
• El Zonte — 683 km

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