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Hawaii County Surf Forecast for September 03, 2026

Published September 2, 2026 • 8:00 PM HST
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Forecast for Big Island Windward and Southeast

HIGH SURF ADVISORY FOR SOUTH FACING SHORES


Shores Tonight Thursday
Surf Surf
PM AM AM PM
North Facing 0-2 0-2 0-2 0-2
East Facing 6-8 6-8 6-8 6-8
South Facing 7-10 7-10 7-10 6-8
TONIGHT

Weather Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers.
Low Temperature In the lower 70s.
Winds Northeast winds around 15 mph.
Tides
Hilo Bay High 1.6 feet 05:23 PM HST.
Low 0.1 feet 12:33 AM HST.
THURSDAY

Weather Partly sunny. Scattered showers.
High Temperature In the lower 80s.
Winds Northeast winds around 15 mph.
Tides
Hilo Bay High 2.2 feet 08:32 AM HST.
Sunrise 6:05 AM HST.
Sunset 6:35 PM HST.

Forecast for Big Island Leeward

HIGH SURF ADVISORY FOR SOUTH FACING SHORES


Shores Tonight Thursday
Surf Surf
PM AM AM PM
West Facing 5-7 5-7 5-7 5-7
South Facing 7-10 7-10 7-10 7-10
TONIGHT

Weather Partly cloudy. Isolated showers.
Low Temperature In the lower 70s.
Winds West winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming
southeast after midnight.
Tides
Kona High 1.3 feet 06:01 PM HST.
Low 0.1 feet 01:10 AM HST.
Kawaihae High 1.1 feet 06:52 PM HST.
Low 0.1 feet 01:22 AM HST.
THURSDAY

Weather Mostly sunny.
High Temperature In the upper 80s.
Winds West winds around 10 mph.
Tides
Kona High 1.8 feet 09:10 AM HST.
Low 0.9 feet 04:36 PM HST.
High 1.1 feet 05:45 PM HST.
Kawaihae High 2.2 feet 09:17 AM HST.
Low 0.8 feet 05:19 PM HST.
Sunrise 6:09 AM HST.
Sunset 6:39 PM HST.

Swell Summary

Swells from Hurricane Lowell will steadily fill in across rest of the island chain tonight into Thursday and will likely produce advisory level surf for south and southeast exposures throughout the state. Swells from Lowell will likely linger through next week and will gradually veer from southeast to south tonight through Thursday and eventually towards the southwest early next week. While, the forecast for swells and seas for next week will highly depend on the eventual track and intensity of Lowell, confidence is beginning to increase for the potential of extra-large surf (exceeding warning levels) along south and western exposures early next week. Additionally, the current moderate long period south swell will peak tonight then gradually decline through the rest of the week.

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A large, medium-period east swell from Hurricane Karina will steadily fill in Friday into the weekend and will likely produce high end advisory level surf or warning level surf along east facing shores by this weekend.

NORTH EAST

NORTH WEST

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WEST

SOUTH EAST

Data Courtesy of NOAA.gov and SwellInfo.com

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