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Los Angeles, CA Daily Water Report — September 6, 2026

Surfing is the decisive play on Los Angeles water today. The scores put it at 9.3 out of 10, matching the week’s high, while fishing, sailing, kayaking, and wildlife sit in the low-to-mid sixes and boating and diving only reach the sevens. Those figures describe fit, not permission to ignore the sea. What carries surfing is a south swell of 0.96 meters at 11.8 seconds, total seas holding 1.2 to 1.3 meters with almost no wind sea on top. Representative wind is only 5 knots from the north-northwest, gusting to 9, which is why the board score stays lofty. The catch is timing: the day’s strongest gust, 16.1 knots, is forecast at 08:00, so the cleaner window opens after that pulse fades. Waves ease toward their daily minimum near 13:00 at 1.16 meters—still a working sea, just the calmest hour on the chart. Dawn is 06:05, sunrise 06:31, sunset 19:15. Boaters and kayakers feel the difference from recent days. Yesterday’s reconstructed wind was a whisper at 0.2 knots and boating sat at 8.0; the days before that were similarly light and scored in the eights. Today’s 1.6-to-10.5-knot range, a 0.4 m/s current toward the south, and that morning gust pull boating to 7.2 and kayaking to 6.5. Sailing remains modest at 6.1, in the same band it has occupied all week. Diving is 7.0 with water near 21.9°C, about 1.5°C above average, and a marine reading of 22.8°C; 14.8 kilometers of atmospheric visibility is not a view underwater. Fishing at 6.4 and wildlife at 6.2 lean on solunar majors from 08:04 to 10:04 and 20:04 to 22:04 under a 30 percent waning crescent. Pressure is stable near 1011 hPa. Air runs 20.1–24.4°C under 57 percent cloud, and a rain window is listed from 08:00 to 18:00 even though representative precipitation is still zero. The coming days turn hotter and smaller: air climbs into the low-to-mid 30s through the 9th with little rain chance, while waves step down toward 0.7–0.8 meters before filling modestly later in the week. Best bet: take the long south swell after the eight o’clock gust lays down, when the period is still doing the work.