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Surf Forecast - North California

5 Day Surf Forecast

Forecast Updated:
 
Tuesday, November 3, 2026 2:38 PM

Surf Scale: 3 ft = waist high, 4 ft = chest high, 5 ft = head high, 10 ft =double overhead
Swell Direction is direction swell is coming from. 90°=East, 180°=South, 270°=West, 360-0 = North

North California Surf Forecast
(Centered on San Francisco)
Day Trend Wind
(kts)
Details
(Swell Number, Swell Size & Period, Arrival Time and Profile)
Waves
(Set wave max face height)
Swell Direction
Wednesday
11/4

Down

NE 5+ early Locally generated windswell 4.9 ft @ 10 secs early
Northwest Champi swell fading from 4.5 ft @ 14 secs
Central South Pacific swell fading from 2.4 ft @ 14 secs
4.5 ft
6.0 ft
3.5 ft
245 degrees
300 degrees
200 degrees
Thursday
11/5

Up some

NW 5 early North Dateline primer swell arriving building to 4.2 ft @ 14-15 secs later 6.0 ft 300 degrees
Friday
11/6

Up some

NE 5+ early North Dateline swell building to 7.4 ft @ 15-16 secs later 11.5 ft 300 degrees
Saturday
11/7

Holding

NE 1-5 early Additional swell from the North Gulf arriving at 7.3 ft @ 15-16 secs later 11.0 ft 300 degrees
Sunday
11/8

Up some

NW 5+ early Local Pacific Northwest swell building to 7.3 ft @ 13-14 secs later 9.5 ft 315 degrees
Extended
Outlook
Up some --- A gale developed from the remnants of Typhoon Champi moving from Japan to the North Dateline Region Wed-Fri (10/30) with up to 37-38 ft seas aimed east. Swell fading on Wed (11/4). A primer gale was right behind on the dateline Sun-Mon (11/2) with 26 ft seas initially. The main gale developed over it Mon-Tues (11/3) on the dateline with seas building to 34 ft aimed east. Secondary energy to build from it in the Northeast Gulf Wed-Thurs (11/5) with 34 ft seas aimed east. Another is forecast over the Central Gulf Thurs-Fri (11/6) with 24 ft seas aimed east lifting north Sat (11/7) with 45 ft seas aimed southeast. And the remnants of Typhoon In-Fa to produce a small area of 38 ft seas on the dateline Sat (11/7). And yet another is forecast behind that on Sun-Tues (11/10) with 29 ft seas pushing across the width of the NPac. The NPac is waking up.

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