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Monterey

6.3ft Tide 12 minutes ago
Wave height11.2ft
Wave period14s
Water temp66.9°F
Wind23kt

Six stations, Crescent City to La Jolla

Next reading in 1:00

Now 4.9ft Fri 9:47 am
-1.43.38.1ThuFriSat
Predicted tide at Crescent City. The lighter line is what the gauge actually recorded.
Predicted tide
TimeHeight
Wed 10:00 am6.3 ft
Wed 2:00 pm5.5 ft
Wed 6:00 pm-0.2 ft
Wed 10:00 pm2.2 ft
Thu 2:00 am5.6 ft
Thu 6:00 am3.8 ft
Thu 10:00 am5.7 ft
Thu 2:00 pm6.0 ft
Thu 6:00 pm0.6 ft
Thu 10:00 pm1.3 ft
Fri 2:00 am5.3 ft
Fri 6:00 am4.1 ft
Fri 10:00 am5.1 ft
Fri 2:00 pm6.3 ft
Fri 6:00 pm1.5 ft
Fri 10:00 pm0.8 ft
Sat 2:00 am4.8 ft
Sat 6:00 am4.5 ft
Sat 10:00 am4.6 ft
Sat 2:00 pm6.2 ft

Crescent City sits at the top of the California coast, where the continental shelf is narrow and North Pacific swell arrives with little to slow it down. The harbor has a documented history with tsunami surge for the same reason: the bathymetry that focuses swell focuses everything else too.

Buoy 46027 reports no water temperature. That is not a fault in this site — the instrument is simply not on that platform, which is why the water temperature figure above reads as absent rather than as zero.

Crescent City

Tide 6.6ft
Wave height 14.4ft
Wave period 9s
Water temp — sensor reporting no data
Wind 19kt
Wind direction SSE
Air temp 56.5°F
Pressure 995hPa

Last seven days

6.015.124.2Fri 9 amFri 8 am
Wave height (ft)
Wave height readings
TimeWave height
Fri 9:50 am10.8 ft
Fri 4:10 pm12.8 ft
Fri 10:50 pm15.1 ft
Sat 6:10 am15.4 ft
Sat 1:20 pm12.1 ft
Sat 8:50 pm9.2 ft
Sun 4:50 am9.8 ft
Sun 11:20 am22.3 ft
Sun 6:10 pm14.8 ft
Mon 1:20 am13.8 ft
Mon 7:50 am12.8 ft
Mon 3:50 pm9.5 ft
Mon 9:50 pm8.9 ft
Tue 4:50 am10.2 ft
Tue 11:20 am8.9 ft
Tue 6:50 pm10.8 ft
Wed 12:50 am8.5 ft
Wed 6:50 am8.9 ft
Wed 1:20 pm11.8 ft
Wed 8:50 pm9.8 ft
Thu 3:10 am15.7 ft
Thu 10:10 am12.5 ft
Thu 4:20 pm14.4 ft
Thu 11:10 pm14.4 ft
Water temp

Not enough readings yet to draw a line.

StationRegionTide · Swell · Water
Crescent CityNorth Coast6.6ft14.4ft—San FranciscoCentral Coast6.4ft12.8ft65.3°FMontereyCentral Coast6.3ft11.2ft66.9°FPort San LuisCentral Coast6.4ft10.5ft70.9°FSanta MonicaSouth Coast6.8ft5.6ft74.3°FLa JollaSouth Coast6.7ft3.6ft75.0°F