Know the Gulf. Catch the good beach days.
Beach day loading? Check today’s Panama City Beach flag, peek at the surf, wind, waves and tides, then explore how Gulf conditions have behaved across past seasons. Know the Gulf puts the beach-day essentials in one fun, fast dashboard so you can plan smarter, pack the sunscreen, and make the most of every PCB adventure.
Sun, surf, wind & tide at a glance
Live environmental context for Panama City Beach. The posted beach flag remains the public-safety signal to follow.
Vacation Planner
Choose a future trip window. The planner compares those calendar dates with every available historical year, using a ±7-day seasonal neighborhood to increase the evidence sample while keeping the comparison close to your travel dates.
Historical flag distribution
Typical environmental context
What this means for a tourist
Red-or-worse frequency by month
Flag-day composition
Year × month hazard heatmap
Percent of observed days in each month that reached single red or double red. Empty cells mean no data, not “safe.”
Persistence into the next day
Intraday changes
Explore an exact historical date
Environmental associations
Validation and baselines
Modeling design
The training table uses red-or-worse as the research outcome and environmental features such as wind, gusts, wave height, wave period, swell, tide range and season.
Open data and provenance
The original ALERTBAY/PCBFLAGS archive remains immutable primary evidence, and new Know the Gulf observations are appended automatically.