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South Beach, OR Daily Water Report — August 27, 2026

It’s a prime day for getting out on the water, with the broadest suitability across the beach. The wind is your best friend today, barely a whisper out of the west at just two knots, which opens the door for almost everything. Boating and kayaking are the standouts, scoring high thanks to flat ocean current and negligible wind waves, but the real sweet spot this morning belongs to divers and surfers. For the dive crowd, that 14.4-degree sea surface temperature, a full two degrees above the local average, combines with low wave chop to deliver solid conditions right through the early hours. Surfers, meanwhile, are looking at a clean one-meter swell from the west-northwest with an eight-second period. It’s not a groundswell powerhouse, but the building afternoon breeze never really shows up, keeping the surface glassy enough to make the most of that energy. Today’s scores mark a slight retreat from yesterday’s near-perfect boating and kayaking numbers, but the tradeoff is a better surfing window than the 26th offered. The waxing gibbous moon, 98 percent illuminated, rises just before sunset, so late-day anglers get a decent solunar boost during the minor feeding period around six. The chlorophyll reading reads as high, but that’s a satellite measure of surface algae, not a guarantee of active baitfish or gamefish. Use the solunar action as your real cue. The only hazard worth tracking is that the calmest wave height arrives around midnight, so if you’re launching a boat right now at midday, those one-meter waves are on the higher end of the day’s range. Looking ahead, Thursday holds similar wave heights but a few more knots of wind, still very manageable. Friday brings a slight dip in swell and a rising chance of showers by afternoon. The real change arrives Tuesday, when wave heights climb above two meters and winds pick up, signaling the end of this calm streak. Best bet: Get the kayak or dive gear in the water before the afternoon moonrise steals your attention.