Long Beach NY Conditions
71°F water · 3.6 ft @ 5s · S 9 · rip moderate
Long Beach NY forecast — water temp, waves, tides, rip-current risk
Right now
- Water temperature
- 71°F · 1.0° above average
- Waves
- 3.6 ft · 5s period
- Wind
- 9 mph S · gusts 11
- Rip-current risk
- MODERATE
Today's tides
- 2:56 AMHigh3.0 ft
- 9:03 AMLow1.2 ft
- 3:18 PMHigh3.5 ft
- 10:01 PMLow1.0 ft
Next 3 hours
- +1h3.0 ft5s
- +2h2.8 ft5s
- +3h2.6 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 70°F (NDBC 44065 climatology); the current reading sits 1.0° above average. For the air-side forecast, see the weather pages for Queens, NY and Brooklyn, NY.