Long Beach NY Beach Conditions
75°F water · 2.3 ft @ 7s · SE 16 · rip moderate
Long Beach NY beach forecast — water temp, waves, tides, rip-current risk
Right now
- Water temperature
- 75°F · 2.0° above average
- Waves
- 2.3 ft · 7s period
- Wind
- 16 mph SE · gusts 18
- Rip-current risk
- MODERATE
Today's tides
- 4:31 AMLow0.1 ft
- 10:37 AMHigh3.7 ft
- 4:45 PMLow0.5 ft
- 10:46 PMHigh3.8 ft
Next 6 hours
- +1h2.2 ft5s
- +2h2.3 ft5s
- +3h2.4 ft5s
- +4h2.4 ft5s
- +5h2.4 ft5s
- +6h2.4 ft5s
About this beach
Long Beach is a 2.3-mile barrier-island boardwalk city about 25 miles east of Manhattan, with year-round surf culture and the only LIRR station within walking distance of the Atlantic. Reconstructed after Sandy in 2012–13 with a hardened concrete boardwalk and new lifeguard stations, it's now the easiest swimmable ocean beach from the city by mass transit.
Day-pass beach access is $15 in season (free with proof of Long Beach residency); the LIRR runs hourly from Penn Station and Atlantic Terminal, ~52 minutes. Surfing is permitted year-round outside of the lifeguarded swim corridors.
Wave height and water temperature on this page are read from NDBC buoy 44065; tide times come from the NOAA CO-OPS Jones Inlet station 8516385. The long-term monthly mean water temperature for this stretch of coast is 73°F (NDBC 44065 climatology); the current reading sits 2.0° above average. For the air-side forecast, see the weather pages for Queens, NY, Brooklyn, NY, and Long Beach, NY.