El Porto Beach
Los Angeles County, California, United States
- Paid parking
Tomorrow at a glance
Best: 8 am to sunset, sunset 6:10 pm8.0
8 km/h5 mph wind, Great
8.3
3 km/h2 mph wind, Great
8.4
0 km/h0 mph wind, Great
8.5
5 km/h3 mph wind, Excellent
8.7
8 km/h5 mph wind, Excellent
8.5
14 km/h9 mph wind, Excellent
8.4
16 km/h10 mph wind, Great
8.3
18 km/h11 mph wind, Great
8.3
17 km/h11 mph wind, Great
8.2
18 km/h11 mph wind, Great
8.2
15 km/h9 mph wind, Great
This page puts what matters first for today's conditions.
Best time to swim
Best: 8 am to sunset. Beach score for daylight hours, with wind in km/hmph underneath.
- Air
- 19°C65°F
- Water
- 23°C73°F
- Wind
- 159 km/hmph W
- Gusts
- 1811 km/hmph
- Waves
- 0.8 m3 ft
- UV
- 0 low
- Tide
- falling
- Rain
- 17%
- Sunset
- 6:10 pm
Tide, next 24 hours
- Low 1 am, -0.2 m<1 ft
- High 7 am, 1.1 m4 ft
- Low 2 pm, -0.2 m<1 ft
- High 8 pm, 1.0 m3 ft
Tide is modeled, not measured. Rip current and water quality data are not available for this beach yet.
Beach info
Lifeguards, parking and facilities before you head down.
About El Porto Beach
El Porto Beach is a beach in Santa Monica Bay, California, United States. It is located 0.56 miles from El Segundo Beach. A bus stop is available within 730 feet of the beach.
El Porto Beach is a California public beach managed by the County of Los Angeles, located in Santa Monica Bay beside El Porto, which is now part of the City of Manhattan Beach, between the beaches of El Segundo Beach and Manhattan Beach, and is protected under the state park system. The entrance to El Porto's large parking lot, which has meters, is at the west end of 45th Street from Highland Avenue.
El Porto is one of the most popular beaches in the South Bay area with surfers from near and far because of an underwater canyon that creates waves usually larger than those at neighboring beaches. These swells have lefts and rights that break over sandbars and are consistently big when other beaches are flat. The breaks can hold waves up to double overhead.
Source: El Porto Beach on Wikipedia (authors). Text available under CC BY-SA 4.0; text may have been shortened. Retrieved Oct 18, 2026. Data sources
Facilities
- Showers70 m240 ft away
- Parking5 within 500 m0.3 miNearest 320 m0.2 mi. Listed as paid
- Food and drink20 within 1 km0.6 miNearest 280 m910 ft
- Rentals1 within 500 m0.3 miYEW! Your Environment's Wax
Getting there
- Nearest bus stop
- 220 m730 ft
- Nearest town
- 1.5 km0.9 miEl Segundo (town)
- Nearest airport
- 8 km5 miHawthorne Municipal Airport (HHR)
Nearby places
- YEW! Your Environment's WaxRental380 m0.2 mi
- Crepe LabFood and drink380 m0.2 mi
- FISHBARFood and drink570 m0.4 mi
- KotoshFood and drink600 m0.4 mi
- PanchosFood and drink670 m0.4 mi
Facilities from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Check posted signs; details change. Data sources
Nearby beaches
- El Segundo Beach0.9 km0.6 mi north-west away8.3 Great tomorrow
- Manhattan Beach1.7 km1.1 mi south-east away8.4 Great tomorrow
- Dockweiler State Beach4.2 km2.6 mi north-west away8.3 Great tomorrow
- Hermosa City Beach4.9 km3.0 mi south away8.4 Great tomorrow
- Mother's Beach9.1 km5.6 mi north away8.3 Great tomorrow
Where to stay near the beach
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The days ahead
Best score each day, with the stretch to aim for.
- Fri8.7 ExcellentBest 8 am to 7 pmWind up to 18 km/h11 mph, rain 4%
- Sat9.4 ExcellentBest 9 am to 7 pmWind up to 15 km/h9 mph, rain 0%
- Sun9.6 ExcellentBest 8 am to 5 pmWind up to 13 km/h8 mph, rain 0%
- Mon9.9 ExcellentBest 12 pm to 7 pmWind up to 16 km/h10 mph, rain 0%
- Tue9.6 ExcellentBest 1 pm to 7 pmWind up to 13 km/h8 mph, rain 0%
- Wed6.7 GoodBest 8 am to 7 pmWind up to 14 km/h9 mph, rain 0%