State of the Beaches is Beach Day API’s weekly look at recently refreshed records, focused on current signals product teams can use for the week ahead. This edition examines four Western Australia beach records dated October 19, 2026 and retrieved from the live API on October 19, 2026: Waterman Beach, Cottesloe Beach, Honeymoon Cove, and Pinky Beach.
Four current records, four different field combinations
The defined comparison set spans the Perth-area coastline, Rottnest Island, and the Pilbara coast. The latest condition entries are clear across all four records, but their temperature, wind, water-temperature, and wave-height fields differ enough that a product should preserve the full combination instead of reducing the result to a single status.
| Beach record | Air | Wind | Water | Wave height | Beach Day Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Waterman Beach | 57°F | 8.9 mph | 68°F | 3.3 ft | 60 |
| Cottesloe Beach | 56°F | 7.8 mph | 68°F | 3.0 ft | 60 |
| Honeymoon Cove | 86°F | 27.7 mph | 79°F | 1.3 ft | 75 |
| Pinky Beach | 64°F | 37.8 mph | 67°F | 5.6 ft | 60 |
Within this four-record set, Honeymoon Cove returned the warmest air and water values, the lowest wave height, and the highest score. Pinky Beach returned the strongest wind and largest wave height. Waterman Beach and Cottesloe Beach form a separate, closely aligned pair, with air values in the mid-50s°F, water at 68°F, and wave heights near 3 ft. These are record-level comparisons within this defined sample, not a regional ranking or a recommendation for a visit.
A useful pattern for coastal product teams
For travel, tourism, rental, and local-guide products, the practical lesson is to make a conditions card composable. A list view can sort or filter with the Beach Day Score, but it should retain the underlying weather and ocean fields so a user can see why records differ.
- Display the conditions date beside air temperature, wind, water temperature, and wave height.
- Keep wind and waves as separate dimensions. A low wave value does not imply a low wind value, and vice versa.
- Use the Beach Day Score as a scanning or sorting aid, not as a replacement for the returned fields.
- Keep unavailable fields visibly unavailable. Do not substitute zeros or negative findings for null values.
This approach gives a destination page or recommendation workflow more useful current context without turning a small comparison set into an overbroad claim. Developers can explore the beach profile and conditions endpoints in the Beach Day API documentation, review the coverage page, or start with free API credits.
Data notes
Observation window: October 18, 2026 00:00 Pacific through this October 19, 2026 edition. Live API retrieval: October 19, 2026. Scope: four recently refreshed Western Australia beach records, not all Western Australia beaches or all beaches worldwide. Field caveats: weather and ocean-condition values are the current returned fields. Water quality was null in these four latest condition entries and was not used as a measurement, a negative finding, or safety guidance. This report does not provide safety advice.