Best beach on the Suncoast today

Today's best beach on the Suncoast is Broadway Beach (Longboat Key), 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: Coquina Beach at 90, Cortez Beach (Bradenton Beach) at 90 and Manatee Public Beach (Holmes Beach) at 90.

See the full day and best window for Broadway Beach (Longboat Key)

All 13 beaches on the Suncoast, ranked

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

1. 1Broadway Beach (Longboat Key)SuncoastDefinitely Go.92
2. 2Coquina BeachSuncoastDefinitely Go.90
3. 3Cortez Beach (Bradenton Beach)SuncoastDefinitely Go.90
4. 4Manatee Public Beach (Holmes Beach)SuncoastDefinitely Go.90
5. 5Nokomis BeachSuncoastDefinitely Go.90
6. 6Lido BeachSuncoastDefinitely Go.89
7. 7Siesta KeySuncoastDefinitely Go.89
8. 8Turtle Beach (Siesta Key)SuncoastDefinitely Go.89
9. 9Brohard Park (Venice)SuncoastDefinitely Go.88
10. 10Manasota KeySuncoastDefinitely Go.88
11. 11Venice BeachSuncoastDefinitely Go.88
12. 12Anna MariaSuncoastGo.83
13. 13Longboat KeySuncoastGo.82

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How this list works

Every beach on the Suncoast 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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