A surfer carrying a yellow board into the breaking waves at Nantasket Beach under a big cloudy sky

Nantasket Beach

Greater Boston surfs here

Open Atlantic beach break, working every month of the year.

In the water

Conditions now

Wave height, period and wind, updated through the day.

Nantasket Surf Conditions

Condition Rating

VERY POOR

Very poor setup right now: flat or heavily degraded conditions.

Wave Height1.0 ft
Wave Period11.0 s
Wave Energy0.5 kW/m
Wind11 mph SSW
Updated 1:20 PM • Rating: HullNext Model · Waves: NDBC 44013 · Wind: KBOS observation

Surf school

Learn to surf

Northeast Surfing

Northeast Surfing is one of the best surf schools around, right on the sand at Nantasket. Lessons, camps and rentals get people of every age out on the water and outside.

For your kids, it is a gift for a lifetime: a skill, a love of the ocean and a reason to keep getting outside.

Founded by Ronnie Lees, also the author of Sins of the Mind.

Book a lesson

Northeast Surfing's stand on Nantasket Beach: a branded canopy, a rental trailer and a surf shop, with boards advertising lessons and camps
April, grey, nobody about. The line-up belongs to the regulars.