Venice Jetties Surf Report & Ideal Conditions

Live NOAA data · Updated 2026-07-30
As of the latest buoy reading (2026-07-30 11:30 UTC), Venice Jetties is fair: the live 2–4 ft short-period swell from the W is off its ideal S direction and is in its ideal size range, and the wind is strong from the W. Venice Jetties is most often good on a 2–4 ft short-period (under 8s) swell from the S, with glassy / no wind from the N, on a mid incoming tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest here.

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Best conditions for Venice Jetties

Venice Jetties is most often good on a 2–4 ft short-period (under 8s) swell from the S, with glassy / no wind from the N, on a mid incoming tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest here.

Ideal wave height2–4 ft
Ideal periodshort-period (under 8s)
Best swell directionS
Best windglassy / no wind from the N
Best tidemid & incoming

These best-conditions estimates come from real sessions LazySurfer users rated highly at this break — not an editorial guess (preliminary-confidence read). In the app, LazySurfer's custom deep-learning model predicts your own 1–5★ rating at about 90% exact-match accuracy (97.6% within one star). How LazySurfer works →

Current conditions

Latest reading from the nearest NOAA buoys (UTC 2026-07-30 11:30 UTC). LazySurfer reads this same public NDBC data directly — no proprietary smoothing. New to buoy data? See how to read a NOAA buoy.

Wave height3.3 ft
Dominant period5s
Swell directionWNW (283°)
Wave buoyNDBC station 42098 (43 mi away)
Wind14 kt from the WSW — NDBC VENF1 (3 mi away)

Venice Jetties 7-day surf forecast

Model wave & wind outlook for Venice Jetties from NOAA's GEFS-Wave model, refreshed daily. Heights are open-water swell (face heights at the break are typically larger).

DaySwell heightPeriod & directionWind
Thu Jul 302–3 ft5s W13 kt WSW
Fri Jul 312 ft5s W12 kt W
Sat Aug 11–2 ft5s WNW10 kt W
Sun Aug 21 ft5s WNW9 kt WSW
Mon Aug 31 ft5s WNW14 kt S
Tue Aug 41 ft5s W9 kt SSE
Wed Aug 51 ft5s W10 kt SE

Tide

Predicted tide for the next two days from NOAA station 8726384 (Port Manatee), the nearest tide station (37 mi away). Times local.

Venice Jetties tide chart for 2026-07-30 Predicted tide height in feet over two days, with high and low markers. 12a6a12p6p12a6a12p6p 0.0ft12:29a1.5ft7:46a1.3ft10:57a2.1ft5:11p0.2ft1:14a1.6ft8:19a1.3ft12:57p1.8ft6:30pNow0.02.1

Frequently asked

Is Venice Jetties good for surfing right now?

As of the latest buoy reading (2026-07-30 11:30 UTC), Venice Jetties is fair: the live 2–4 ft short-period swell from the W is off its ideal S direction and is in its ideal size range, and the wind is strong from the W.

Where does LazySurfer's surf data for Venice Jetties come from?

LazySurfer reads public data directly from NOAA's National Data Buoy Center and the National Weather Service — the nearest NDBC wave buoy (station 42098) and the nearest NOAA tide station (Port Manatee). The same raw readings NOAA publishes, with no proprietary smoothing.

What are the best surf conditions for Venice Jetties?

Venice Jetties is most often good on a 2–4 ft short-period (under 8s) swell from the S, with glassy / no wind from the N, on a mid incoming tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest here.

Does LazySurfer predict whether Venice Jetties is good for me?

Yes. LazySurfer trains a custom deep-learning model — a PyTorch neural network with per-user embeddings, retrained weekly on real logged surf sessions from the LazySurfer community — to predict the 1-to-5 star rating you personally would give, rather than a single average rating for everyone.

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