Robert Moses Beach Conditions
70°F water · 4.6 ft @ 5s · NE 22
Robert Moses Beach forecast — water temp, waves, tides, rip-current risk
Right now
- Water temperature
- 70°F · near average
- Waves
- 4.6 ft · 5s period
- Wind
- 22 mph NE · gusts 27
- Rip-current risk
- —
Today's tides
- 3:55 AMHigh3.0 ft
- 10:04 AMLow1.1 ft
- 4:16 PMHigh3.6 ft
- 10:50 PMLow0.8 ft
Next 6 hours
- +1h2.9 ft5s
- +2h2.9 ft5s
- +3h3.0 ft5s
- +4h3.1 ft5s
- +5h3.2 ft5s
- +6h3.2 ft5s
About this beach
Robert Moses State Park sits at the western tip of Fire Island, the only stretch of the barrier island reachable by car. Five mile-long fields (numbered 2 through 5) front the Atlantic; the iconic 1858 Fire Island Lighthouse is a 0.75-mile boardwalk hike east of Field 5. Day-use parking is $10 in season.
It's the least-developed Long Island state beach — no boardwalk strip, no concert venue, just dunes and ocean. The barrier-island ride takes about 1h45 from midtown via the Long Island Expressway and the Robert Moses Causeway; Sayville LIRR plus the Fire Island ferries is an alternate for car-free visitors heading further east on the island.
Wave height and water temperature on this page are read from NDBC buoy 44025; 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 70°F (NDBC 44065 climatology); the current reading sits near average. For the air-side forecast, see the weather pages for Queens, NY and Brooklyn, NY.