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CALIFORNIA / Oceanside HarborSPOT / 926

Oceanside Harbor South Jetty.

Jetty beachbreak

Left & right33.218° N / 117.407° W
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Forecast & tide at a glance

Estimated surf face · feet · Pacific time. The existing PureSurfers face-estimation engine; not a measured or calibrated breaking-wave report.

No cached forecast for the current hour. The spot guide is available; use “Load / refresh conditions” to request the forecast.

READ THE INDIVIDUAL SWELLS

Swell by swell.

Offshore component height (Hs), not surf-face height. Directions are where waves come from. Component heights do not add together.

No cached swell partitions for this hour. A combined wave forecast does not establish separate swells.

Tide predictions: La Jolla, 41 km reference; retrieved Sat Oct 24, 12:15am. Station predictions can differ locally.

This page reads the shared cache first. Refresh requests only this spot’s existing regional samples.

Know the spot

The south side harbor peak with strong sandbar focus.

Also known as South Jetty.

Break type
Jetty beachbreak
Wave direction
Left & right
Reported difficulty
Intermediate
Bottom
Sand
Reported swell preference
S–NW
Reported tide preference
Low–mid

Often different enough from the north side to deserve its own reading.

Before paddling out: Jetty rocks, rips and heavy crowd behavior.

Public access Approximate imported surf-zone pin — verify locally

Source references

Provenance is not proof that every inherited claim or current access condition has been rechecked.

THE FIELD GUIDE / Oceanside Harbor South Jetty

Read this stretch of coast.

Follow the swell window

The catalogue’s reported preference for Oceanside Harbor South Jetty is “S–NW”. Compare that description with each component’s incoming direction and period. An offshore swell number is a reference; the local wave still depends on the actual shoreline, bottom and tide.

Check the water level

Reported tide preference: Low–mid. Follow the named NOAA station and its trend through your intended session, then inspect the entry and exit at the beach. A station prediction is not a water-level sensor at this takeoff.

Read the bottom and the lineup

Catalogue bottom: Sand. Reported difficulty: Intermediate. Watch several sets before choosing where to enter, keep clear of riders, and compare the actual wave with your ability and equipment.

A useful note for next time

Record the section you actually surfed, the time, incoming swell direction and period, wind and tide trend. Add what the wave did: connected sections, closeouts, drift or exposed obstacles. Comparing that observation with the same model next time is more useful than treating one colored number as the whole session.

Camera references nearby

Oceanside Harbor roaming ↗

America’s Boating Club Oceanside · about 1.1 km from the catalogue pin · video-page

Roaming harbor and entrance views published by the boating club.

Oceanside beach / surf ↗

Visit Oceanside · about 3.2 km from the catalogue pin · video-page

Tourism-board live beach-camera page for Oceanside.

Carlsbad Beach ↗

HDOnTap / Seashore on the Sand · about 8.1 km from the catalogue pin · video-page

Roaming beach/surf view near Ocean Street in Carlsbad Village.

Links to third-party camera pages, not owned feeds. Proximity does not confirm the camera sees this break. Playback and image freshness have not been verified by this page.

Make the next session easier

Lineup etiquette · Paddling technique · How these forecasts work

Nearby spots to compare

PureSurfers is built by Peter Ochabski. Spot profiles combine retained sources and contributor observations; this is not a claim he has surfed or verified every entry.

COASTAL WAVE GUIDANCE

Waves at the model cells

Awaiting shared model data

Significant wave height (Hs) before the legacy spot reduction. This is not a measured breaking-face or set range.

Nearshore and buoy trends load here. Coverage and observation times are shown separately.