San Diego · 10/16/2026, 6:20 PM

Saturday, October 17

A maybe day. PB Drive is the best of it on the dawn patrol with the 5'4 Mini-Simmons — read the notes before you commit. OB Jetty, OB Pier are out on water quality.

Water

71.8°F

Air

73–78°F

Gear

Trunks + Wetsuit Top

Tides · Scripps Pier

H 1:15pL 10:24p

Dawn patrol

sunrise 6:54am to 9:00am

Swell

3.0ft @ 15.0s

from SSW · ~3.2ft face

Tide

3.6ft

high, rising

Wind

5.4 mph SSW

73.1°F air

2.7ft @ 14s groundswell under 1.3ft @ 10s chop · buoy 46258

PB Drive Maybe

~3.2ft face

Check before you paddle. 1.59" of rain 112h ago -- just past the 96h window, and bacteria lag the rain

Board call

5'4 Mini-Simmons

Backup: 5'8 Fish

Clean, lined-up sandbar rights are a down-the-line planing wave -- the Simmons outruns the fish here when there's real period underneath. 10s minimum: this stretch wants swell, not slop.

Swell's SSW -- in the window, but well off the best angle here (W)

Crystal Pier Maybe

~3.2ft face

Check before you paddle. 1.59" of rain 112h ago -- just past the 96h window, and bacteria lag the rain

Board call

5'8 Fish

Backup: 5'4 Mini-Simmons

Fish gets the nod -- catches more of the small stuff, and you skip the scrum at the one good peak

Swell's SSW -- in the window, but well off the best angle here (W)

Blocked on water quality

OB Pier Don't paddle

~3.2ft face

Do not paddle out here. 1.59" of rain 112h ago, and this spot sits where the runoff comes out (2h left in the 115h window) 'Fair -- not great most days and TOXIC IF THE SAN DIEGO RIVER IS FLOWING.'

Board call

Don't paddle out

Do not paddle out here

Swell's SSW -- in the window, but well off the best angle here (W)

OB Jetty Don't paddle

~3.2ft face

Do not paddle out here. 1.59" of rain 112h ago, and this spot sits where the runoff comes out (31h left in the 144h window) Chronically the worst water of the ten, storm or no storm WORST WATER QUALITY OF THE TEN. Breaks directly in front of Dog Beach at the river outlet. A County advisory ran from April 2, 2026 -- a spring, NON-STORM advisory. The river falls out here year-round. Check sdbeachinfo.com or 619-338-2073 every single time.

Board call

Don't paddle out

Do not paddle out here

Swell's SSW -- in the window, but well off the best angle here (W)

WORST WATER QUALITY OF THE TEN.

6 more breaks

Score	Break	Board	Call
66	La Jolla Shores	9'4 Pink Panther	Maybe
62	Mission Beach	5'4 Mini-Simmons	Maybe
58	Black's Beach	6'0 Surfer Rosa	Skip
47	Sunset Cliffs	6'0 Surfer Rosa	Skip
47	Scripps Pier	6'5 Egg	Skip
26	PB Point	9'4 Pink Panther	Skip

Evening glass

5:13pm to sunset 6:13pm

Swell

3.2ft @ 15.4s

from SSW · ~3.5ft face

Tide

2.9ft

mid, falling

Wind

8.2 mph WNW

77.7°F air

2.9ft @ 14s groundswell under 1.4ft @ 10s chop · buoy 46258

PB Drive Maybe

~3.5ft face

Check before you paddle. 1.59" of rain 112h ago -- just past the 96h window, and bacteria lag the rain

Board call

5'8 Fish

Backup: 6'0 Surfer Rosa

The local book for this stretch is 'fish or funboard, especially during those Autumn combo swells' -- the fish is that call

Swell's SSW -- in the window, but well off the best angle here (W)

Crystal Pier Maybe

~3.5ft face

Check before you paddle. 1.59" of rain 112h ago -- just past the 96h window, and bacteria lag the rain

Board call

6'0 Surfer Rosa

Backup: 5'8 Fish

Chest-high plus with push

Swell's SSW -- in the window, but well off the best angle here (W)

Blocked on water quality

OB Pier Don't paddle

~3.5ft face

Board call

Don't paddle out

Do not paddle out here

Swell's SSW -- in the window, but well off the best angle here (W)

OB Jetty Don't paddle

~3.5ft face

Board call

Don't paddle out

Do not paddle out here

Swell's SSW -- in the window, but well off the best angle here (W)

WORST WATER QUALITY OF THE TEN.

6 more breaks

Score	Break	Board	Call
66	Black's Beach	6'0 Surfer Rosa	Maybe
62	Mission Beach	6'0 Surfer Rosa	Maybe
60	La Jolla Shores	5'4 Mini-Simmons	Skip
59	Sunset Cliffs	6'0 Surfer Rosa	Skip
56	Scripps Pier	6'5 Egg	Skip
41	PB Point	9'4 Pink Panther	Skip

Water quality — do not paddle out

OB Jetty, OB Pier blocked on water quality. Everything else carries the usual caveats.

Rain 1.59" · 112h agoSan Diego River 25.8 cfs · dry-weather baseflow

This is inferred, not official. There is no public API for County of San Diego beach advisories, so this brief cannot see them. It reasons from rainfall history and live San Diego River discharge (USGS gauge 11023000) against each break's known chronic sources. A posted advisory or a sewage spill will not appear here. The authoritative check is sdbeachinfo.com or 619-338-2073 — and at OB Jetty, the folder's instruction is to check it every single time. Post-rain windows here are 48h for light rain and longer for storms; the County advises a flat 72 hours after any rain.