Twin Piers Surf Report & Ideal Conditions

Live NOAA data · Updated 2026-07-16
As of the latest buoy reading (2026-07-16 11:00 UTC), Twin Piers is marginal: the live 0–2 ft short-period swell from the W matches its ideal W direction and is under its usual size, and the wind is moderate from the N. Twin Piers is most often good on a 4–6 ft medium-period (8–16s) swell from the W, with strong wind from the NW, on a high outgoing tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest across the surrounding region.

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Best conditions for Twin Piers

Twin Piers is most often good on a 4–6 ft medium-period (8–16s) swell from the W, with strong wind from the NW, on a high outgoing tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest across the surrounding region.

Ideal wave height4–6 ft
Ideal periodmedium-period (8–16s)
Best swell directionW
Best windstrong wind from the NW
Best tidehigh & 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 2026-07-16 11:00 UTC). LazySurfer reads this same public NDBC data directly — no proprietary smoothing. New to buoy data? See how to read a NOAA buoy.

Wave height1.6 ft
Dominant period5s
Swell directionWNW (285°)
Wave buoyNDBC station 42098 (17 mi away)
Wind8 kt from the N — NDBC MTBF1 (15 mi away)

Twin Piers 7-day surf forecast

Model wave & wind outlook for Twin Piers from NOAA's GEFS-Wave model, refreshed daily. Heights are open-water swell (face heights at the break are typically larger).

DaySwell heightPeriod & directionWind
Thu Jul 161–2 ft3s WNW13 kt NW
Fri Jul 171–2 ft4s WNW16 kt WNW
Sat Jul 181–2 ft4s W12 kt WSW
Sun Jul 191–2 ft5s WSW12 kt SW
Mon Jul 201–2 ft4s SSW11 kt SW
Tue Jul 211–2 ft3s SW10 kt SW
Wed Jul 221 ft3s SW9 kt SW

Tide

Predicted tide for the next two days from NOAA station 8726384 (Port Manatee), the nearest tide station (15 mi away). Times local.

Twin Piers tide chart for 2026-07-16 Predicted tide height in feet over two days, with high and low markers. 12a6a12p6p12a6a12p6p 0.0ft12:29a1.5ft7:46a1.3ft10:57a2.1ft5:11p0.2ft1:14a1.6ft8:19a1.3ft12:57p1.8ft6:30pNow0.02.1

Frequently asked

Is Twin Piers good for surfing right now?

As of the latest buoy reading (2026-07-16 11:00 UTC), Twin Piers is marginal: the live 0–2 ft short-period swell from the W matches its ideal W direction and is under its usual size, and the wind is moderate from the N.

Where does LazySurfer's surf data for Twin Piers 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 42098) and the nearest NOAA tide station (Port Manatee). The same raw readings NOAA publishes, with no proprietary smoothing.

What are the best surf conditions for Twin Piers?

Twin Piers is most often good on a 4–6 ft medium-period (8–16s) swell from the W, with strong wind from the NW, on a high outgoing tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest across the surrounding region.

Does LazySurfer predict whether Twin Piers 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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