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Redondo Beach

Redondo Beach · Los Angeles County · California

Today’s conditions · not a forecast

Visibility Breakdown

Updated through the day · times PT
Last reading 7:01 AM

Visibility by position

Post Break
headline zone
14ft
reviewed reading
Open Water
27ft
reviewed reading

Solid = diver report · outlined = our reading

Cross-section from the sand out to open water, split into 2 visibility zones: Post Break (0-200 ft from shore), Open Water (200+ ft from shore).
Shore
Post Break
0-200 ft from shore
Open Water
200+ ft from shore

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.

14 ✓
7a
9a
soon
10a
soon
11a
soon
1p
soon
3p
soon
5p
soon

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Entry type
Shore
Parking
Veterans Park lot
Spearfishing
Legal
Stingray risk
Medium
Water quality
Yellow flag: bacteria advisory Advisory · Oct 26
F graded Oct 23
Difficulty
Intermediate
Popular activities
Fish · Scuba · Freedive
Today's forecast

Why it reads 12–16 ft

Updated 7:01 AM PT today · October 27, 2026
Clean water
Helps vis
0.42 mg/m³
Moderate impact
Moderate swell
Neutral
2.3 ft
Minor swell
Short-period chop
Hurts vis
4.0 s
Moderate chop
Light wind
Helps vis
4 kt
Minor wind
Live water reading
Helps vis
live reading today
Minor impact

Medium confidence

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7-Day Forecast

Days 2 to 7 are Pro

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.

Today · Tue
Oct 27
12–16ft
Good
Open Water 27 ft
Swell 2 ft at 5 s, wind 5 kt at 10 AM. No rain forecast.
Wed
Oct 28
14
Good
Open Water 21 ft
Thu
Oct 29
9
Fair
Open Water 14 ft
Fri
Oct 30
16
Excellent
Open Water 24 ft
Sat
Oct 31
19
Excellent
Open Water 27 ft
Sun
Nov 1
11
Good
Open Water 17 ft
Mon
Nov 2
13
Good
Open Water 20 ft
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Getting there

Map and parking

33.8373° N · 118.3912° W
Map of Redondo Beach showing Veterans Park, the pier, and King Harbor
Address
Veterans Park · Torrance Blvd
Redondo Beach, CA 90277
Parking
Veterans Park lot

Paid municipal lot at Veterans Park at the foot of Torrance Boulevard, hourly rates during the day. Additional paid parking at the Redondo Beach Pier complex 270 feet south. Free street parking on Esplanade and the residential blocks above the bluff. The Veterans Park lot fills on weekends with divers and pier visitors.

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Field notes

About Redondo Beach

Redondo Beach is a stretch of South Bay shoreline in Los Angeles County, between Hermosa Beach to the north and Torrance Beach to the south. The shore-access pin sits at Veterans Park, a bluff-top park at the foot of Torrance Boulevard with a stairway descending to a rocky entry at the water. Immediately south stands the Redondo Beach Pier, a 70,000-square-foot horseshoe-shaped concrete structure built in 1995 after fire damaged earlier wooden iterations. South of the pier, the King Harbor breakwater encloses a protected boat harbor. North of Veterans Park, the Esplanade runs along the bluff above a sand beach.

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