San Diego · 8/31/2026, 11:09 AM

Monday, August 31

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.

Water

74.3°F

Air

71°F

Gear

Trunks + Rashguard

Tides · Scripps Pier

L 5:13aH 11:34aL 6:00pH 11:55p

Dawn patrol

sunrise 6:23am to 9:00am

Swell

4.8ft @ 10.0s

from SW · ~4.1ft face

Tide

2.4ft

mid, rising

Wind

2.8 mph SSW

71.1°F air

PB Drive Maybe

~4.1ft face

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 S -- in the window, but well off the best angle here (W)
Near-glassy. Go

Scripps Pier Maybe

~3.7ft face

Board call

5'4 Mini-Simmons

Backup: 5'8 Fish

Same shadow as the Shores, same soft rolling takeoff -- clean and lined up, this is Simmons water well past waist-high. Not a grovel, a glide.

Canyon shadow ~-24% on the 12s energy -- from the south, the worst case here
Swell's S -- outside this spot's window by ~99deg
Rising tide -- this spot specifically wants the push

10 more breaks

Score	Break	Board	Call
72	Cardiff Reef	7'6 Magic	Maybe
70	Mission Beach	5'4 Mini-Simmons	Maybe
70	Crystal Pier	6'0 Surfer Rosa	Maybe
70	La Jolla Shores	5'4 Mini-Simmons	Maybe
68	PB Point	7'6 Magic	Maybe
67	OB Pier	5'4 Mini-Simmons	Maybe
67	OB Jetty	6'0 Surfer Rosa	Maybe
67	Swami's	7'6 Magic	Maybe
66	Sunset Cliffs	6'0 Surfer Rosa	Maybe
64	Black's Beach	7'6 Magic	Maybe

Evening glass

6:15pm to sunset 7:15pm

Swell

4.2ft @ 9.6s

from SW · ~3.5ft face

Tide

1.2ft

low, rising

Wind

7.6 mph NW

72.4°F air

Cardiff Reef Maybe

~3.5ft face

Board call

7'6 Magic

Backup: 6'5 Egg

The Magic's job description -- trim and glide down a long mushy wall. Frye 7.5" for hold

Swell's S -- outside this spot's window by ~29deg
The kelp's doing its job on this NW bump -- combed here while PB, Mission and OB go victory-at-sea

PB Drive Maybe

~3.5ft face

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 S -- in the window, but well off the best angle here (W)

10 more breaks

Score	Break	Board	Call
65	La Jolla Shores	5'4 Mini-Simmons	Maybe
59	Swami's	7'6 Magic	Skip
58	Black's Beach	6'0 Surfer Rosa	Skip
56	OB Pier	5'8 Fish	Skip
55	OB Jetty	6'0 Surfer Rosa	Skip
55	Scripps Pier	5'4 Mini-Simmons	Skip
54	Sunset Cliffs	6'0 Surfer Rosa	Skip
53	Crystal Pier	6'0 Surfer Rosa	Skip
46	Mission Beach	6'0 Surfer Rosa	Skip
41	PB Point	9'4 Pink Panther	Skip

Water quality — check before you go

Nothing acute, but the chronic spots are still the chronic spots.

Rain none in 5 daysSan Diego River 2.3 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.