The Surfside Beach, TX marine forecast covers live wind speed and gusts, tide predictions, wave conditions, and major and minor solunar feeding times, updated continuously from NOAA and Open-Meteo. The strongest fishing windows usually line up with the moving tide and the solunar periods shown below — check current conditions before you head out.
By Steve Wilson, lifelong angler & founder of My Marine Forecast
Last updated: Sep 15, 2026, 8:00 AM
On Tuesday, September 15, Surfside Beach, TX sees low tide at 1:31 PM (0.4 ft). Winds 3–13 mph from the S gusting to 22 mph. Air temperatures 82–90°F. The strongest fishing windows line up with the moving water around each tide change, roughly an hour on either side.
Today's Tides · Station 8772985
| Low tide | 1:31 PM | 0.4 ft |
Wind
3–13 mph S
Gusts
22 mph
Air Temp
82–90°F
Tides from NOAA Station 8772985 · wind & temperature from Open-Meteo. Open the live forecast for hourly charts and the 7-day outlook.
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Surfside Beach sits at the mouth of the Brazos River on the upper Texas coast, and the river mouth creates a productive environment that sustains flounder, redfish, and speckled trout in the nearby bays and surf zone. It's close to the Houston metro area, which makes it popular on weekends — but the Brazos River fishing and Christmas Bay are distinct enough to reward the drive.
The Quintana Beach area just across the Brazos holds a productive jetty fishery. Redfish and sheepshead stack around the Freeport jetty structure, and the jetty provides shore access on both sides of the channel. Flounder pile up in the Brazos River mouth during Fall — one of the best landing spots for large flatfish on the upper coast.
Christmas Bay, just up the Intracoastal from Surfside, is one of the cleanest and clearest bays on the Texas coast. The grass flats hold redfish that can be sight-cast on calm mornings, and the bay is a designated state scientific area with restrictions that have kept fishing quality high. Speckled trout are excellent on the deeper grass edges in the cooler months.
The Brazos River discharge can discolor the surf zone after rains in the Hill Country. When the river is running brown, fish the jetties or move inside to Christmas Bay for cleaner water. The Gulf beach at Surfside fishes best when the surf is calm and the current isn't pushing river water down the beach.
Spring: Trout return to the surf in the clear windows between April fronts. The Surfside jetty holds sheepshead and black drum through the March spawn, then redfish and trout as the water warms. Spanish mackerel arrive along the beachfront by May. Behind the beach, waders find early season redfish on the grass in Christmas Bay.
Summer: Green water in the first gut means speckled trout at daybreak, and the calm stretches of June through August bring the best surf fishing of the year. Tarpon and big sharks patrol the beachfront. The jetties give up redfish, trout and mangrove snapper on incoming tide, and Freeport boats run offshore for snapper, kingfish and ling.
Fall: Bull redfish crowd the jetties and the surf from September through November, feeding ahead of each front. The flounder run funnels fish out of the back bays past San Luis Pass and the Freeport jetties in November. Trout school under birds in Christmas and Drum bays. After a front settles, the surf can be outstanding.
Winter: The surf slows but never fully closes. Whiting, black drum and the occasional pompano eat fresh dead shrimp on calm winter days, and sheepshead stack on the jetty rocks. Redfish hold in Christmas Bay and the Intracoastal between fronts. Big trout winter in the coastal bayous for the few who chase them.
Surfside Jetty Park sits at the base of the Freeport jetties, with rock access and beach on either side of the channel. The drivable beach runs for miles toward San Luis Pass, one of the strongest natural passes on the Texas coast and a famous, and genuinely dangerous, wade fishery. Christmas Bay behind Follets Island is a protected grass flat system suited to kayaks and wading. Bryan Beach stretches southwest toward the mouth of the Brazos River, and the Intracoastal Waterway behind the village rounds out the bayside options.