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Lighthouse Field State Beach conditions

Weather, wind and available nearby ocean forecasts for Lighthouse Field State Beach. Model forecasts are separate from station observations.

Coordinates: 36.9517742, -122.0298187

Forecast sources and coverage

Times use America/Los_Angeles. Weather: available; marine forecast: unavailable. Regional model values are separate from station observations.

Forecast for Santa Cruz Small Craft Harbor, 3.1 km from Lighthouse Field State Beach. Local conditions can differ.

Forecast updates are temporarily paused. Available saved forecasts are shown with their preparation times.

Weather fetched 2026-11-06T12:07:30.596Z.

Complete hourly weather forecast

Weather model in America/Los_Angeles
Time	Air °C	Wind km/h	Gust	Wind from °	Pressure hPa
Nov 7, 12:00 a.m. PST	13.9	8.6	No gust	16.9	1018.4
Nov 7, 01:00 a.m. PST	14.6	8.6	No gust	9.9	1018.5
Nov 7, 02:00 a.m. PST	14.6	7.9	No gust	353.4	1018.5
Nov 7, 03:00 a.m. PST	14.7	6.5	No gust	352.8	1018.2
Nov 7, 04:00 a.m. PST	14.9	5.8	6.8 km/h	357.6	1018.0
Nov 7, 05:00 a.m. PST	14.7	6.8	No gust	63.4	1018.1
Nov 7, 06:00 a.m. PST	14.6	7.9	No gust	58.5	1018.0
Nov 7, 07:00 a.m. PST	14.4	7.2	No gust	6.5	1018.3
Nov 7, 08:00 a.m. PST	17.0	7.6	No gust	12.8	1018.6
Nov 7, 09:00 a.m. PST	19.8	4.7	No gust	345.3	1018.8
Nov 7, 10:00 a.m. PST	21.0	4.0	No gust	171.7	1018.9
Nov 7, 11:00 a.m. PST	21.8	4.3	7.9 km/h	196.4	1018.9
Nov 7, 12:00 p.m. PST	22.3	13.0	No gust	229.7	1018.6
Nov 7, 01:00 p.m. PST	22.3	20.9	No gust	243.0	1018.1
Nov 7, 02:00 p.m. PST	22.1	23.4	No gust	251.7	1017.9
Nov 7, 03:00 p.m. PST	21.4	29.5	No gust	260.2	1018.1
Nov 7, 04:00 p.m. PST	20.5	26.3	No gust	276.3	1018.4
Nov 7, 05:00 p.m. PST	18.4	19.4	No gust	331.5	1018.3
Nov 7, 06:00 p.m. PST	16.4	10.8	14.0 km/h	66.2	1018.7
Nov 7, 07:00 p.m. PST	15.2	14.4	15.5 km/h	74.0	1019.2
Nov 7, 08:00 p.m. PST	14.6	10.8	12.3 km/h	58.2	1019.5
Nov 7, 09:00 p.m. PST	14.1	17.6	No gust	334.7	1020.0
Nov 7, 10:00 p.m. PST	13.1	19.4	No gust	7.7	1020.1
Nov 7, 11:00 p.m. PST	12.7	13.0	No gust	20.7	1019.8
Nov 8, 12:00 a.m. PST	12.3	9.7	No gust	25.2	1019.5
Nov 8, 01:00 a.m. PST	11.9	8.6	9.4 km/h	20.6	1019.5
Nov 8, 02:00 a.m. PST	11.4	6.8	10.4 km/h	32.5	1019.5
Nov 8, 03:00 a.m. PST	11.1	7.6	10.8 km/h	26.6	1019.5
Nov 8, 04:00 a.m. PST	10.9	8.6	11.2 km/h	19.1	1019.4
Nov 8, 05:00 a.m. PST	11.1	9.7	12.2 km/h	11.5	1019.5
Nov 8, 06:00 a.m. PST	11.5	10.8	13.7 km/h	12.6	1019.8
Nov 8, 07:00 a.m. PST	11.6	10.1	13.7 km/h	6.5	1020.0
Nov 8, 08:00 a.m. PST	14.0	9.4	No gust	12.1	1020.6
Nov 8, 09:00 a.m. PST	17.3	7.9	No gust	78.9	1020.9
Nov 8, 10:00 a.m. PST	18.9	7.9	9.7 km/h	146.1	1020.8
Nov 8, 11:00 a.m. PST	19.7	10.4	No gust	185.5	1020.4
Nov 8, 12:00 p.m. PST	20.3	11.5	No gust	197.0	1019.5
Nov 8, 01:00 p.m. PST	21.2	12.2	No gust	206.6	1018.4
Nov 8, 02:00 p.m. PST	22.2	13.0	No gust	216.5	1017.7
Nov 8, 03:00 p.m. PST	22.5	17.3	No gust	221.1	1017.5
Nov 8, 04:00 p.m. PST	21.9	17.6	No gust	224.8	1017.4
Nov 8, 05:00 p.m. PST	19.2	17.6	No gust	20.2	1017.2
Nov 8, 06:00 p.m. PST	16.6	16.9	No gust	23.1	1017.5
Nov 8, 07:00 p.m. PST	15.0	12.2	12.6 km/h	30.5	1017.8
Nov 8, 08:00 p.m. PST	13.9	11.5	12.2 km/h	26.9	1018.1
Nov 8, 09:00 p.m. PST	13.2	12.2	No gust	19.8	1018.4
Nov 8, 10:00 p.m. PST	12.8	12.2	No gust	18.0	1018.7
Nov 8, 11:00 p.m. PST	12.7	11.9	No gust	18.4	1018.7

Shoreline adventures 2026-11-07

Coverage: available. Source: provider: NOAA; stationId: 9413745; locationName: Santa Cruz, Monterey Bay; distanceKm: 1.3505298511756383; datum: MLLW. Times use America/Los_Angeles. These are forecast assessments, not beach access, harvesting permission or safe navigation boundaries.

Daylight shoreline outings

Weather assessments with separate tide coverage
Start	End	Score /10	Assessment	Wind min kn	Wind max kn	Gust	Rain mm	Tide coverage	Reasons
Nov 7, 10:00 a.m. PST	Nov 7, 12:00 p.m. PST	6.3	Good	2.1	2.3	4.3 kn	0.0	complete
Nov 7, 01:00 p.m. PST	Nov 7, 03:00 p.m. PST	8.7	Excellent	11.3	12.6	No gust	0.0	complete

Shoreline tide predictions

Source high and low predictions; heights keep the source datum
Time	Tide	Height m
Nov 7, 02:01 a.m. PST	low	0.5
Nov 7, 08:22 a.m. PST	high	1.7
Nov 7, 03:19 p.m. PST	low	-0.0
Nov 7, 09:46 p.m. PST	high	1.2

Relative low-tide crossing windows

These geometric crossings of 70% of the source high tide are separate from the daylight outing assessments above.

Predicted relative water-level crossings
Start	End	Prediction coverage	Daylight coverage	Weather coverage
Nov 6, 10:20 a.m. PST	Nov 7, 05:26 a.m. PST	complete	none	partial
Nov 7, 10:54 a.m. PST	Nov 8, 05:40 a.m. PST	complete	available	complete

Shoreline adventures 2026-11-08

Daylight shoreline outings

Weather assessments with separate tide coverage
Start	End	Score /10	Assessment	Wind min kn	Wind max kn	Gust	Rain mm	Tide coverage	Reasons
Nov 8, 10:00 a.m. PST	Nov 8, 12:00 p.m. PST	5.9	Fair	4.3	5.6	No gust	0.0	complete
Nov 8, 03:00 p.m. PST	Nov 8, 05:00 p.m. PST	9.4	Excellent	9.3	9.5	No gust	0.0	complete

Shoreline tide predictions

Source high and low predictions; heights keep the source datum
Time	Tide	Height m
Nov 8, 02:33 a.m. PST	low	0.7
Nov 8, 08:50 a.m. PST	high	1.8
Nov 8, 03:58 p.m. PST	low	-0.1
Nov 8, 10:38 p.m. PST	high	1.2

Relative low-tide crossing windows

These geometric crossings of 70% of the source high tide are separate from the daylight outing assessments above.

Predicted relative water-level crossings
Start	End	Prediction coverage	Daylight coverage	Weather coverage
Nov 7, 10:51 a.m. PST	Nov 8, 05:44 a.m. PST	complete	none	complete