Right now in El Segundo

Outside right now

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• Weather

  …National Weather Service, LAX station.Source

• Air quality

  …EPA AirNow, nearest reporting area.Source

• Waves offshore

  …NOAA buoy 46221, Santa Monica Bay.Source

• Water temperature

  …NOAA, Santa Monica pier station.Source

• Next tide

  …NOAA prediction, Santa Monica.Source

• Weather alerts

  …National Weather Service, this point.Source

Next few hours

• The NWS forecast loads with the readings.

The wave number is significant wave height at a buoy about 13 miles offshore, not the surf at Grand Avenue. Tides are predictions. For swimming, ask the lifeguards; for beach water quality, check Heal the Bay's Beach Report Card. AirNow data are preliminary.

Today's almanac

Worked out on your phone for El Segundo's center point (today). Sun times are good to about a minute; the moon phase to about a day.

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The rest of today

• What's on around El Segundo: dated events from organizers.
• South Bay Today: local headlines with their sources.
• What's being built: 42 sourced projects within 25 miles.
• Who represents El Segundo.
• The directory: yellow and white pages for El Segundo and 25 miles.
• New in town? A first week, one day at a time.
• Getting around: SkyLink status and Metro from El Segundo.
• Sister town: Medway, Massachusetts, another small town with its own circle.

Sources and how this page works

• Weather, forecast and alerts: National Weather Service Los Angeles/Oxnard, LAX station KLAX and forecast grid LOX/148,40.
• Air quality: U.S. EPA AirNow, the reporting area nearest El Segundo, from AirNow's public reporting-area file. For local detail, see South Coast AQMD current readings.
• Waves: NOAA National Data Buoy Center station 46221, Santa Monica Bay, a Scripps Waverider buoy.
• Water temperature and tides: NOAA CO-OPS station 9410840, Santa Monica.
• Sun and moon: calculated in your browser with the standard sunrise equation and the mean lunar month. No source is fetched.

Your phone asks this site's read-only endpoints, /api/v1/conditions and /api/v1/air-and-waves, which read the agencies and return each reading with its own time and freshness. AI assistants can use the same data through the site's MCP server. Nothing is stored about you, and there's no account.

Spot something wrong? Suggest a correction. Drafted and checked by Claude, an AI model from Anthropic, for Michael Hoydich, Nov 9, 2026.