All personal property must be removed from the beach by 7:00 pm each evening (umbrellas, canopies, towels, toys). This is because Sunset Beach is a turtle sanctuary and turtles must be able to come ashore unobstructed.
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Many visitors take right to the water, enjoying boogie boarding, skim boarding, and swimming. Dangerous rip currents at Sunset warrant caution. It is not the best swimming beach for young children. Experienced surfers venture out to ride the waves.
North Shore's Sunset Beach has some of the best waves for surfing in the world. During the winter, catch a premier surfing competition. Grab your camera to snap amazing photos of monster winter waves, and the daring surfers that ride them. During the summer, the water often becomes calm enough to swim.
Sunset Beach is one of the most famous big wave surfing spots on the North Shore of Oahu. Between the 1950s and the 1980s, it was considered the ultimate test and the most important surf beach in the world.
Sunset Beach sea temperatures peak in the range 29 to 30°C (84 to 86°F) on around the 10th of August and are at their lowest on about the 10th of February, in the range 18 to 22°C (64 to 72°F). Year round warm sea temperatures at Sunset Beach climb to their highest in early to mid August.
Named as one of the 21 Best Beaches in the World by National Geographic, Sunset Beach, the southern-most beach of North Carolina's barrier islands, remains a favorite destination across generations.