Best beach near Jacksonville today

No beach near Jacksonville is a go today. The highest ShoreScore is Fernandina Main Beach at 54 out of 100: Maybe Not.

Clear skies and warm air and water. The catch: High Surf Advisory.

Next: Fort Clinch Beach at 54, Neptune Beach at 53 and Amelia Island (Peter's Point) at 43.

See the full day and best window for Fernandina Main Beach

All 9 beaches within 35 miles of Jacksonville, ranked

Highest ShoreScore first. The word is the call the app makes at that score.

1. 1Fernandina Main Beach27 mi from Jacksonville · official notice in effectMaybe Not.54
2. 2Fort Clinch Beach28 mi from Jacksonville · official notice in effectMaybe Not.54
3. 3Neptune Beach15 mi from Jacksonville · official notice in effectMaybe Not.53
4. 4Amelia Island (Peter's Point)21 mi from JacksonvilleMaybe Not.43
5. 5American Beach19 mi from Jacksonville · official notice in effectMaybe Not.42
6. 6Atlantic Beach15 mi from Jacksonville · official notice in effectPass.38
7. 7Ponte Vedra Beach23 mi from Jacksonville · official notice in effectPass.38
8. 8Hanna Park (Mayport)15 mi from JacksonvillePass.35
9. 9Jacksonville Beach16 mi from Jacksonville · official notice in effectPass.30

An official notice means the National Weather Service or the county has something posted for that beach; open the beach for the details.

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How this list works

Every beach near Jacksonville gets one ShoreScore, a number from 0 to 100 that says how good a beach day it is. It comes from live weather, wind, surf, official water quality tests, the seaweed risk and rain radar, added up from now until sunset. Before sunrise and after dark it covers the whole day's light instead.

The words are the same call the app makes at each score: Definitely Go, Go, Roll the Dice, Maybe Not and Pass. When no beach reaches Go, this page says so instead of crowning a winner.

This list ranks the same numbers the live map shows, read at the time printed at the top. A beach with missing data is left out, never scored low: unknown is not bad. Open any beach for its hour by hour forecast and the best window to go.

Informational only, not for safety decisions. Lifeguards, beach flags and official notices come first at every beach, whatever the number says.

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