Read the ocean from the top down.
Ebbward is laid out the way the water is. Choose a layer to see what it shows and where the number comes from.
When we don't know, we say so.
Many ocean apps fill every box with a number or a score. Ebbward leaves a gap where the data runs out.
Visibility: unreported
No model can measure how far you'll see underwater. Until someone reports from your beach, it stays blank.
Every number has an age
Each source carries its time. Old readings lose their live label, and gaps in a forecast stay empty.
Offshore, not the shorebreak
Wave height is modeled out at sea. Reefs and coves change what reaches the sand, and Ebbward says so.
Your beach, wherever the coast is.
Ebbward covers beaches on US coasts from a curated catalog: search by name, town or state, look near you, or browse the map. Each beach gets its own forecast point, the nearest NOAA tide station and buoy when one is close enough, and times in its own time zone.
Started in Laguna Beach
Ebbward began as a case study of the coves around Laguna Beach, California. Main Beach is still the example to try.
Main Beach, Laguna BeachBrowse the map
Every catalog beach as a pin on a calm map of sand and sea glass. Zoom in, choose one, see its water.
Open the mapHonest about distance
When no tide station or buoy is near a beach, Ebbward says so instead of borrowing one from far away.
What it won't guessFree where it matters.
Conditions, sources and official guidance stay free. A membership may come later for people who plan often; nothing is for sale.
Always free
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See what the water is doing now.
The live regional forecast for any beach in the catalog, in your browser. No account, no app to install.
See today's water