San Francisco, California
Ocean Beach
A four-mile open-ocean beach break that grades from waist-high in summer to triple-overhead in the winter. Cold water year-round, strong currents, and a paddle that punishes a slow duck-dive. Best on a clean ground swell with light easterly wind and a pushing tide before high.
- Optimal swell
- WNW to NW, 280 to 305 degrees
- Optimal wind
- Light easterly offshore
- Tide preference
- Mid-incoming on the rise
- Bottom
- Beach break, sandbars shift weekly
- Skill level
- Advanced
- Coordinates
- 37.7594, -122.5107
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