Beach Report: Tides & Forecast

Is it a good beach day? Beach Report answers in one line, using the beach-safety flag, water and air temperature, wind, waves, rip-current risk, UV index, tide times and the forecast. It covers beaches and coastal destinations across the US and Mexico.

Check the surf on the Gulf Coast, the water temperature in California, or conditions in Cancún, Tulum, Los Cabos and Puerto Vallarta. Beach Report is free, and you can read everything without an account.

WHAT YOU GET
• Beaches near you, sorted by distance, with the current safety flag on each
• A map of the coast, so you can see what's around you
• Search beaches and coastal destinations by name, city or state
• Live conditions: water temp, air temp, wind, waves, humidity, UV and rip-current risk
• A plain-English safety read (Good to go, Use caution or Hazardous). Tap it to see what it was worked out from
• Forecasts for the next few hours and the next five days, and a tide chart for US beaches
• Waves by day: height, period and the hour they peak
• Save your beaches for one-tap access, nearest first
• Weather alerts for the beaches you've saved. Tap one for the full advisory
• A Plan tab: each day of the coming week rated from Great to Poor at your saved beaches, with the best hours to go (paid plan)
• Trips of up to 90 days with tides, sunset and places nearby, for your calendar, to share or to print (paid plan)
• Alerts when a saved beach has a great day coming, or the forecast changes a planned trip's rating (paid plan)
• A beach day in your notifications, with UV and a reminder to put sunscreen back on (paid plan)

FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE THERE
• Read what people posted from the sand today: sargassum, jellyfish, crowds, parking, biting bugs
• File your own report in three taps when you get there
• Find the restrooms, showers, parking and lifeguard stations on a satellite map, and add one you don't see
• See what's on at the beach this weekend

ALSO
• Directions to any beach in your maps app
• Parking details, and gear suggestions for the day
• Your saved beaches keep working out of signal. The last reading stays on your phone and says when it was taken
• °F or °C, and dark mode
• Sign in with Google to keep your saved beaches and settings on another device and to post events. You can read everything signed out.

Conditions come from NOAA (the National Weather Service, the National Data Buoy Center and CO-OPS tide stations) in the US, and from Open-Meteo for international destinations, including Mexico.

Beach gear suggestions link to Amazon. beach.report is an Amazon Associate and earns from qualifying purchases.

Safety note: flags shown may be inferred from current conditions and are not a substitute for on-site lifeguard flags or official guidance. Reports are written by other visitors and are not verified. Always follow posted signs and lifeguards.

Free to use, with an optional paid plan for planning beach days. The plan is a yearly or monthly subscription, or a one-time purchase. A subscription renews automatically until you cancel it in Google Play.

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Recent changes:
New: a Plan tab for picking the best beach day. Each day of the coming week is rated from Great to Poor at the beaches you save, with the best hours to go.

Plan a trip of up to 90 days with the tides, sunset and places nearby. Get a notification when a saved beach has a great day coming or a trip's forecast changes.

Beach pages show a notice when a storm's forecast cone covers the beach, and events nearby.

The Plan tab is part of an optional paid plan. Everything that was free stays free.