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Atlantic City, NJ Daily Water Report — September 7, 2026

Atlantic City’s water day is a keeper for boats, kayaks, and divers, and a shrug for anyone chasing real surf or a sailing breeze. Boating leads at 8.8, diving 8.7, kayaking 8.0. Those are suitability reads, not safety stamps: they track the light air, small sea, slack current, and dry sky, with diving also folding in available clarity and water temperature. A north wind is in around 5 knots, gusting to 7, and the forecast keeps the range 0.4 to 5.5 knots, with the sharpest puff 8.4 knots near 08:00. Marine waves sit at 0.6 meters and 7.3 seconds all day, swell 0.58 meters at just under 6 seconds from the east, wind waves almost nil, and a 0.2 m/s set to the south. Skies are nearly cloudless, no rain is indicated, pressure is 1021 hPa and rising, and marine SST is 25.1 C, 2.4 C above average. Air runs a cool-to-mild 16.7 to 24.5 C under a UV near 3.6. Atmospheric visibility is 19.3 km; that is not a look underwater. The cost of that quiet is energy. Surfing only reaches 6.2 because height and period never wake up. Sailing is 6.6: fair-weather consistency without enough wind. Fishing is a workmanlike 6.9 on solunar timing, tide, rising pressure, light wind, and available clarity. Majors run 09:01–11:01 around the 10:38 low (0.16 m) and 21:01–23:01 near the 23:45 low; highs are 1.15 m at 04:47 and 1.54 m at 17:11. Wildlife is 6.0 on solunar, low-tide proximity, and wind. Sunlight stretches 06:32 to 19:23 under a 20 percent waning crescent. Reconstructed scores from yesterday held diving and boating exactly here, with fishing up from 6.4, surfing from 5.6, and kayaking from 7.8. Tuesday still looks light, peak wind 6.3 knots and waves 0.4–0.6 m. Wednesday and Thursday jump to 17.7-knot peaks and near-meter waves, with rain chance up by the 10th. Best bet: take the boat or the kayak while this north breeze is still a whisper.