Venice Beach
Venice · 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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Coastal Bulletin
About Venice Beach
Current notices
Why it reads 12–16 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
Venice, CA 90291
Paid municipal lots along Pacific Avenue and at Venice Boulevard, hourly rates plus a flat-rate weekend price. Metered street parking on Ocean Front Walk-adjacent blocks fills by 9am on weekends. The Rose Avenue lot near the Boardwalk core is the most convenient.
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About Venice Beach
Venice Beach is a sand-bottom municipal beach on the Santa Monica Bay coast of Los Angeles County, anchored by the Venice Beach Boardwalk along its central shoreline. The Boardwalk, officially Ocean Front Walk, is a two-mile pedestrian strip running parallel to the beach. The City of Los Angeles describes it as the second-most-visited tourist destination in Southern California, with more than ten million visitors per year. Muscle Beach Venice, an outdoor weight-lifting venue at 1800 Ocean Front Walk, sits along the strip; the namesake migrated south from the original Muscle Beach in Santa Monica in 1959. The Venice Skate Park, a concrete skate plaza built directly on the sand between Windward Avenue and Sunset Avenue, sits on the beach side of the Boardwalk. The beach traces back to Abbot Kinney's Venice of America development of 1905, which included a network of canals and a 1,600-foot amusement pier. The original Abbot Kinney Pier burned in 1920; the rebuilt amusement pier closed in 1946 and was demolished in 1947. The Venice Canals Historic District, three blocks inland between Washington Boulevard and Venice Boulevard, preserves a portion of the 1905 canal network and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. At the south end of the spot, 1.5 miles from the Boardwalk core, the Venice Fishing Pier is a 1,300-foot concrete pier at the foot of Washington Boulevard, built in 1963, condemned in 1986, and restored and reopened in 1997.
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.
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