Newport Beach (The Jetties)
Newport Beach (Orange County) · near Newport Beach · Los Angeles / SoCal
Surfing
At a glance
- Skill level
- intermediate
- Best season
- Year-round · Fall and winter for power
Worth knowing
- Good for a first timer
- Yes
Surfing detail
- Break types
- beach
- Swell
- NW, W, S · 2–8ft · A series of jetties set off consistent peaks
- Tide
- Works across tides
- Wind
- Morning offshore best · Crowds early on good days
- Crowd
- Popular with families and advanced surfers alike — gets crowded. Dawn patrol rewards you with quiet water and sunrise.
- Board
- Shortboard, fish, or longboard depending on the day
- Wetsuit
- 3/2mm most of the year · 4/3mm mid-winter · Water 60–68°F
- Intl tip
- Newport Beach's Balboa Peninsula has the Fun Zone, the Balboa Island ferry, and endless food. The Wedge at the far end is a must-watch on a big south swell even if you're not surfing it — some of the most dramatic waves in California.
The guide
The Newport Jetties are a series of jetties along the Newport Beach peninsula that set off consistent, dependable surf popular …
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Newport Beach (The Jetties) — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 33.61, -117.93