Margate Pier Northside Surf Report & Ideal Conditions

Live NOAA data · Updated 2026-07-15
As of the latest buoy reading (2026-07-15 11:00 UTC), Margate Pier Northside is fair: the live 2–4 ft short-period swell from the S is off its ideal SE direction and is in its ideal size range, and the wind is moderate from the S. Margate Pier Northside is most often good on a 2–4 ft short-period (under 8s) swell from the SE, with glassy / no wind from the N, on a high incoming tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest here.

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Best conditions for Margate Pier Northside

Margate Pier Northside is most often good on a 2–4 ft short-period (under 8s) swell from the SE, with glassy / no wind from the N, on a high incoming tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest here.

Ideal wave height2–4 ft
Ideal periodshort-period (under 8s)
Best swell directionSE
Best windglassy / no wind from the N
Best tidehigh & incoming

These best-conditions estimates come from real sessions LazySurfer users rated highly at this break — not an editorial guess (preliminary-confidence read). In the app, LazySurfer's custom deep-learning model predicts your own 1–5★ rating at about 90% exact-match accuracy (97.6% within one star). How LazySurfer works →

Current conditions

Latest reading from the nearest NOAA buoys (UTC 2026-07-15 11:00 UTC). LazySurfer reads this same public NDBC data directly — no proprietary smoothing. New to buoy data? See how to read a NOAA buoy.

Wave height3.9 ft
Dominant period5s
Swell directionS (186°)
Wave buoyNDBC station 44091 (79 km away)
Wind6 kt from the S — NDBC JCRN4 (23 km away)

Margate Pier Northside 7-day surf forecast

Model wave & wind outlook for Margate Pier Northside from NOAA's GEFS-Wave model, refreshed daily. Heights are open-water swell (face heights at the break are typically larger).

DaySwell heightPeriod & directionWind
Wed Jul 152 ft7s SSE13 kt WSW
Thu Jul 162 ft5s S12 kt W
Fri Jul 171–2 ft4s S12 kt ESE
Sat Jul 181–5 ft7s SSE18 kt S
Sun Jul 193 ft7s SSE13 kt WSW
Mon Jul 203–4 ft8s SSE14 kt SSW
Tue Jul 213–6 ft7s SSE15 kt SW

Tide

Predicted tide for the next two days from NOAA station 8534720 (Atlantic City (Ocean)), the nearest tide station (7 km away). Times local.

Margate Pier Northside tide chart for 2026-07-15 Predicted tide height in feet over two days, with high and low markers. 12a6a12p6p12a6a12p6p 0.6ft6:21a3.3ft12:24p1.0ft6:10p4.1ft12:28a0.6ft7:03a3.5ft1:11p1.0ft7:07pNow0.64.2

Frequently asked

Is Margate Pier Northside good for surfing right now?

As of the latest buoy reading (2026-07-15 11:00 UTC), Margate Pier Northside is fair: the live 2–4 ft short-period swell from the S is off its ideal SE direction and is in its ideal size range, and the wind is moderate from the S.

Where does LazySurfer's surf data for Margate Pier Northside come from?

LazySurfer reads public data directly from NOAA's National Data Buoy Center and the National Weather Service — the nearest NDBC wave buoy (station 44091) and the nearest NOAA tide station (Atlantic City (Ocean)). The same raw readings NOAA publishes, with no proprietary smoothing.

What are the best surf conditions for Margate Pier Northside?

Margate Pier Northside is most often good on a 2–4 ft short-period (under 8s) swell from the SE, with glassy / no wind from the N, on a high incoming tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest here.

Does LazySurfer predict whether Margate Pier Northside is good for me?

Yes. LazySurfer trains a custom deep-learning model — a PyTorch neural network with per-user embeddings, retrained weekly on real logged surf sessions from the LazySurfer community — to predict the 1-to-5 star rating you personally would give, rather than a single average rating for everyone.

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