Best beach near St. Petersburg today

Today's best beach near St. Petersburg is Madeira Beach, with a ShoreScore of 92 out of 100: Definitely Go.

Mostly sunny, warm air and water and calm surf. The catch: a steady breeze blowing.

Next: Broadway Beach (Longboat Key) at 91, Pass-a-Grille (St Pete Beach) at 91 and Coquina Beach at 90.

See the full day and best window for Madeira Beach

All 13 beaches within 25 miles of St. Petersburg, ranked

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

1. 1Madeira Beach10 mi from St. PetersburgDefinitely Go.92
2. 2Broadway Beach (Longboat Key)23 mi from St. PetersburgDefinitely Go.91
3. 3Pass-a-Grille (St Pete Beach)8 mi from St. PetersburgDefinitely Go.91
4. 4Coquina Beach22 mi from St. PetersburgDefinitely Go.90
5. 5Cortez Beach (Bradenton Beach)21 mi from St. PetersburgDefinitely Go.90
6. 6Manatee Public Beach (Holmes Beach)19 mi from St. PetersburgDefinitely Go.90
7. 7Sand Key Park17 mi from St. PetersburgDefinitely Go.90
8. 8Honeymoon Island23 mi from St. PetersburgDefinitely Go.89
9. 9Redington Shores12 mi from St. PetersburgDefinitely Go.88
10. 10Anna Maria18 mi from St. PetersburgGo.83
11. 11Clearwater Beach19 mi from St. PetersburgGo.83
12. 12Indian Rocks Beach15 mi from St. PetersburgGo.83
13. 13Fort De Soto North Beach11 mi from St. PetersburgGo.82

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How this list works

Every beach near St. Petersburg 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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