Los Angeles County, California, United States
El Porto
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Beach break
Sand bottom
Peels both
0.8–3 m
Mid tide
The Manhattan Beach stretch by the power plant, famous for fast, wedging, barreling peaks on west and southwest swells. A shortboarder's beachbreak with a deep local crew and some of the best sandbar barrels in LA.
Hazards
RipCrowdsLocalismShallow
Conditions
- Best swell
- W, WSW, SW
- Best wind
- NE, E
- Season
- Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct
- Wave size
- 0.8–3 m
- Wave quality
- Consistency
- Crowd
- Coordinates
- 33.9150, -118.4480
Facilities
ParkingToiletsShowersCafe