Long Beach
Long Beach · Los Angeles County · California
Visibility Breakdown
Visibility by position
Solid = diver report · outlined = our reading
Break Zone: The range of water where the waves break and sediment is stirred up.
Post Break: The range past where any waves are forming, where the water starts to have a significant increase in visibility. There might be some sediment here, but swell energy is diffused and the water is calmer.
Open Water: This zone is far out enough from the shore that the water is at its clearest. It’s deep enough that sediment is not disturbed by the wave energy at the surface. Haze can sit near the surface, so the water is usually clearer the deeper you go.
Through the day
Today's visibility readings at this spot, shown at the hour each one was taken.
Every bar is a reading for the Post Break zone.
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Why it reads 8–12 ft
Medium confidence
7-Day Forecast
Today is the live headline above. Tomorrow onward is the algorithm's forecast from predicted swell, wind, and rain, updated each morning and at 6 PM Pacific.
Map and parking
Long Beach, CA 90803
Belmont Pier has paid municipal lots at the pier base and metered street parking on Ocean Boulevard. Junipero Beach and Alamitos Beach (1 to 2 mi west) have additional paid lots along Shoreline Drive and Ocean Boulevard. Spaces fill on summer weekends, especially during the Long Beach Grand Prix and Pride.
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About Long Beach
Long Beach runs five miles of Los Angeles County coastline, anchored at its center by Belmont Veterans Memorial Pier, a 1,620-foot concrete pier at 35 39th Place off Ocean Boulevard. The current pier was built in 1967 to replace an earlier wooden structure and was upgraded through the 2010s. The shoreline is broken into named segments: Alamitos Beach just east of downtown, Junipero Beach and Long Beach City Beach in the central stretch about a mile west of the pier, and Belmont Shore Beach extending east from the pier to 55th Place. Alamitos Bay and Naples Island sit immediately east of Belmont Shore. The defining structure of the central shoreline is the Long Beach federal breakwater, a two-mile rock wall built by the US Navy from 1942 to 1949 to protect the inner harbor from open-ocean swell. The breakwater has been the subject of a multi-decade reconfiguration debate over surf restoration and flood protection.
Species found here
Researched habitat and range candidates. A listed species may be seasonal or depth-limited; this is not a confirmed sighting at this location.
Spot strategies
Rocky Reef
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