Best beach near Tampa today

Madeira Beach and Sand Key Park tie for the best beach near Tampa today, each with a ShoreScore of 92 out of 100: Definitely Go.

Clear skies, warm air and water and calm surf. The catch: a steady breeze blowing.

Next: Pass-a-Grille (St Pete Beach) at 91, Manatee Public Beach (Holmes Beach) at 90 and Honeymoon Island at 89.

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All 11 beaches within 35 miles of Tampa, ranked

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

1. 1Madeira Beach23 mi from TampaDefinitely Go.92
2. 2Sand Key Park23 mi from TampaDefinitely Go.92
3. 3Pass-a-Grille (St Pete Beach)25 mi from TampaDefinitely Go.91
4. 4Manatee Public Beach (Holmes Beach)35 mi from TampaDefinitely Go.90
5. 5Honeymoon Island24 mi from TampaDefinitely Go.89
6. 6Indian Rocks Beach24 mi from TampaDefinitely Go.89
7. 7Redington Shores24 mi from TampaDefinitely Go.88
8. 8Fred Howard Park26 mi from TampaGo.84
9. 9Anna Maria34 mi from TampaGo.83
10. 10Clearwater Beach23 mi from TampaGo.83
11. 11Fort De Soto North Beach28 mi from TampaGo.82

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How this list works

Every beach near Tampa 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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