California

The tide at Pismo Beach

A long, flat central-coast beach where a low tide opens up hard-packed sand for miles, and the clamming that made the town’s name.

A Wavepane display showing the tide at Pismo Beach, California: the current water level as a wave, the next tide time, and today's weather.

A Wavepane at Pismo Beach, California. See it live →

What the water does here

Pismo Beach runs two highs and two lows a day, and rarely the same size twice. Between low and high the water moves about 3.2 feet, averaged across a week of predictions.

A Wavepane on the wall shows that as a picture rather than a table: the water sits where the water sits, and the wave on top grows or flattens with the swell outside. It wakes every half hour, redraws, and goes back to sleep. Nothing to open, nothing to check.

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