Long Beach NY Beach Conditions
60°F water · 2.3 ft @ 11s · S 9 · rip low
Long Beach NY beach forecast — water temp, waves, tides, rip-current risk
Right now
- Water temperature
- 60°F · 5.0° below average
- Waves
- 2.3 ft · 11s period
- Wind
- 9 mph S · gusts 11
- Rip-current risk
- LOW
Today's tides
- 4:14 AMLow0.3 ft
- 10:16 AMHigh3.1 ft
- 4:05 PMLow0.8 ft
- 10:15 PMHigh3.8 ft
Next 6 hours
- +1h1.6 ft6s
- +2h1.6 ft6s
- +3h1.6 ft6s
- +4h1.6 ft6s
- +5h1.6 ft6s
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 65°F (NDBC 44065 climatology); the current reading sits 5.0° below average. For the air-side forecast, see the weather pages for Queens, NY, Brooklyn, NY, and Long Beach, NY.