Is the water warm yet?
Live water temperatures and monthly typicals for 221 US swim beaches — read from the pier stations and buoys, and from the satellite where no sensor reaches.
Find your beach
- Alabama 4 beaches
- California 33 beaches
- Connecticut 2 beaches
- Delaware 5 beaches
- Florida 54 beaches
- Georgia 5 beaches
- Hawaii 11 beaches
- Louisiana 2 beaches
- Maine 5 beaches
- Maryland 2 beaches
- Massachusetts 6 beaches
- Michigan 2 beaches
- Mississippi 5 beaches
- New Hampshire 2 beaches
- New Jersey 9 beaches
- New York 6 beaches
- North Carolina 17 beaches
- Ohio 2 beaches
- Oregon 5 beaches
- Puerto Rico 5 beaches
- Rhode Island 4 beaches
- South Carolina 10 beaches
- Texas 17 beaches
- US Virgin Islands 2 beaches
- Virginia 2 beaches
- Washington 4 beaches
Warmest right now
The warmest beach water in America right now All the beaches we track, ranked by whose water is warmest at this minute. Live readings from NOAA pier stations and buoys, and monthly typicals where no sensor reaches.King tides
When are the king tides? The days the tide runs highest in 2026, 2027 and 2028, coast by coast, from NOAA's own predictions — and what a king tide actually is.How to read the numbers
Brisk, refreshing, perfect and bath-warm say how the water feels going in, not whether it is safe to go in.
A month counts as swimmable when its typical water temperature is 70° or warmer.
Warm water says nothing about surf, rip currents, or bacteria — check local lifeguard flags and advisories.