Robert Moses Beach Conditions
60°F water · 3.6 ft @ 5s · W 18
Robert Moses Beach forecast — water temp, waves, tides, rip-current risk
Right now
- Water temperature
- 60°F · 8.0° above average
- Waves
- 3.6 ft · 5s period
- Wind
- 18 mph W · gusts 22
- Rip-current risk
- —
Today's tides
- 1:21 AMLow0.3 ft
- 7:35 AMHigh4.3 ft
- 2:03 PMLow0.1 ft
- 7:59 PMHigh3.5 ft
Next 6 hours
- +1h3.0 ft6s
- +2h3.0 ft6s
- +3h3.0 ft5s
- +4h3.0 ft5s
- +5h3.0 ft5s
- +6h3.0 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 52°F (NDBC 44065 climatology); the current reading sits 8.0° above average. For the air-side forecast, see the weather pages for Queens, NY and Brooklyn, NY.