LIVE
Know before you paddle out.
Daily forecast across 9 of every 10 California surf spots — 237 of 260 ocean-facing beach groups.
Malibu Lagoon State Beach
Los Angeles County
What the coast looks like right now.
Regional cards summarize modeled beach coverage. Spotlight cards below point to real beaches in today's export, not placeholder marketing content.
Central Coast
San Diego
Los Angeles
North Coast
Santa Ana
Open a real beach card.
Huntington Harbour (Harbour Channel)
stable recent conditions with no strong environmental signal
Bolinas Beach (BOLINAS)
stable recent conditions with no strong environmental signal
Santa Monica State Beach (Santa Monica Pier)
stable recent conditions with no strong environmental signal
Tijuana Slough National Wildlife Refuge (Tijuana Estuary mouth)
stable recent conditions with no strong environmental signal
Tijuana Slough National Wildlife Refuge (3/4 mi. N of TJ River)
stable recent conditions with no strong environmental signal
Pillar Point Harbor (local name = surf-west point avenue)
stable recent conditions with no strong environmental signal
What is live, and what is still research.
Shorelife’s production forecast is narrow on purpose. Only fecal indicator bacteria risk is live today. The rest of this section is roadmap, not disguised feature scope.
Fecal indicator bacteria
The live daily forecast estimates Enterococcus exceedance risk from official California sample history plus coastal and weather covariates.
Weather-forecast-driven risk
Planned. Wire forward-looking weather forecasts — precipitation, wind, solar radiation — directly into the bacteria forecast so the daily estimate reflects tomorrow's conditions rather than the last 24 hours of observations.
Additional bacterial indicators
Planned. Expand beyond marine Enterococcus to include freshwater E. coli, fecal coliform, and ddPCR-based source-tracking markers as supplementary public risk signals.
Read the sources behind the forecast.
This section only links to real documents, real routes, and the real repository. No fabricated authors, no fake download counters, no decorative placeholder artifacts.
Methodology
Model design, promotion rules, limitations, and scientific references.
Risk labels
How public bands map to exceedance thresholds and why unsupported sites stay neutral.
Data sources
BeachWatch, CDIP, NDBC, Open-Meteo, USGS, and the curated warehouse behind the forecast.
Calibration
Production metrics, spatial holdouts, and the latest promotion status from pipeline output.
Model registry JSON
The tracked model-version artifact in the public repository.
Source repository
Backend, mobile, web, and data pipeline code for the Shorelife stack.