South Africa Surf Map – Wind and Wave forecasts

South Africa wave (swell) map for surfers, windsurfers and sailors showing open ocean wave size, wave period and wave energy. You can customize the wave and wind maps with overlays for wind arrows, pressure and general weather for surfing. There are also options to display live wind observations from ships, wave buoys and weather stations on the wave maps in the South Africa region.

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7 day 48 hour

	Thu	Friday 22			Saturday 23			Sunday 24			Monday 25			Tuesday 26			Wednesday 27			Thursday 28
	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night
Best forecast wave conditions in South Africa	Super Tubes Eastern Cape (S)	Haga-Haga Eastern Cape - Wild Coast	Black Rocks Cape Town	Off The Wall Cape Town	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Guns Swakopmund	Doughnuts Backreef Eastern Cape (S)	Big Bay Cape Town	Bali Bay (Glen Reef) Cape Town	Arniston Overberg	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Cintsa West Eastern Cape - Wild Coast	Tofinho Inhambane	Tofinho Inhambane	Alkantstrand KZN North	Bloubergstrand Cape Town	Cape St Martin West Coast	Boneyards Eastern Cape (S)	Bali Bay (Glen Reef) Cape Town	Noordhoek Cape Town
Rating	8	10	8	9	10	7	6	6	6	5	5	4	4	5	4	4	3	4	4	5	4	5
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	5.5 SW	5.0 SW	5.5 SW	5.5 WSW	5.0 SW	3.5 SW	3.0 SW	3.0 SSW	3.0 SW	2.2 SW	2.0 SSW	1.9 ESE	1.4 SSW	3.0 ENE	2.2 ESE	2.0 ESE	1.3 ENE	1.4 WSW	1.5 WSW	3.0 ENE	1.6 WSW	2.0 WSW
Period(s) (?)	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	13	13	12	12	9	12	9	9	9	9	13	13	8	13	12
Energy(?)	11810	9225	11419	12023	10015	5341	3232	3331	3193	1392	1041	547	509	1458	804	673	237	642	744	1033	838	1121
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	cross- off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)		10:24PM 9:18AM	12:00PM		12:40AM	1:33PM		1:50AM	1:40PM	2:11PM	1:56AM		2:43PM	2:52AM	10:24PM	3:15PM	3:20AM		2:35AM		2:30PM	2:48AM
Low Tide / height (m)	3:25PM		5:25AM	6:18PM		7:18AM	7:45PM 3:00PM		7:28AM			8:09AM		8:55PM	9:06AM		9:22PM	9:03AM	9:00PM	7:56AM		9:06PM
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	clear	light rain	cloudy	rain shwrs	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	clear	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	clear	cloudy	cloudy
Rain (mm)	-	-	2	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	22	19	9	10	10	12	12	12	14	18	18	21	31	20	21	20	19	22	19	25	16	15
Low °C	21	15	8	10	8	9	12	12	12	17	18	15	31	17	20	20	18	18	18	19	14	15
Chill °C (?)	22	19	5	7	6	10	10	12	13	18	18	21	31	20	21	20	18	22	19	25	16	15
Sunrise	-	-	7:09	-	-	6:50	-	-	6:37	-	-	6:58	-	-	5:48	-	-	7:01	-	-	7:01	-
Sunset	5:59	-	-	6:25	-	-	6:07	-	-	6:27	-	-	6:08	-	-	5:27	-	-	6:31	-	-	6:30
Swell1 (m) & direction	-	0.6 ENE	5.5 SW	5.5 WSW	4.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.0 SW	3.0 SSW	3.0 SW	2.2 SW	2.0 SSW	1.9 ESE	1.7 ESE	2.2 E	2.2 ESE	2.0 ESE	1.3 ENE	1.4 WSW	1.5 WSW	2.1 E	1.6 WSW	2.0 WSW
Period (s)	-	9	14	14	14	14	14	13	13	12	12	9	9	9	9	9	9	13	13	8	13	12
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	0.4 NE	-	-	0.2 SSE	-	1.5 S	-	0.6 SSE	-	1.0 SE	1.1 SSW	1.4 SSW	0.7 S	0.8 SSW	0.7 S	0.5 S	0.5 S	0.5 N	0.8 SW	0.5 WSW	0.9 WSW
Period (s)	-	8	-	-	13	-	10	-	9	-	7	12	12	12	12	12	11	8	4	14	19	18
Wind waves (m) & direction	5.5 SW	5.0 SW	-	-	5.0 SW	-	-	-	-	-	1.1 SE	-	-	3.0 ENE	-	-	1.1 NNE	-	0.5 N	3.0 ENE	-	-
Period (s)	14	14	-	-	14	-	-	-	-	-	7	-	-	9	-	-	6	-	4	8	-	-

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	5PM	8PM	11PM	2AM	5AM	8AM	11AM	2PM	5PM	8PM	11PM	2AM	5AM	8AM	11AM	2PM	5PM	8PM
Best forecast wave conditions in South Africa	Boneyards Eastern Cape (S)	J-Bay Eastern Cape (S)	Super Tubes Eastern Cape (S)	Albatross Eastern Cape (S)	Riet River Eastern Cape (S)	Haga-Haga Eastern Cape - Wild Coast	Ntylonyane (Breezy Point) Eastern Cape - Wild Coast	Ntylonyane (Breezy Point) Eastern Cape - Wild Coast	Black Rocks Cape Town	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Off The Wall Cape Town	Off The Wall Cape Town	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	J-Bay Eastern Cape (S)	Boneyards Eastern Cape (S)	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Big Bay Cape Town
Rating	7	7	8	7	8	10	10	9	8	8	9	10	10	10	9	9	7	6
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	4.0 SW	4.5 SW	5.5 SW	7.5 SW	6.0 SW	5.0 SW	5.0 SW	5.5 SSW	5.5 SW	5.5 SW	5.5 WSW	5.0 SW	4.5 SW	5.0 SW	4.5 SW	4.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.5 SW
Period(s) (?)	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	13
Energy(?)	5893	7242	11810	20426	13621	9225	9469	10672	11419	13067	12023	10786	8619	10015	7916	7179	5341	3732
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	off	cross- off	off	cross- off	off	cross- off	off	off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	off	off	off	cross- off
Tide State(?)	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high
High Tide / height (m)	9:18AM 1.03				10:14PM 1.04					12:04PM 1.10				12:40AM 1.21				12:50PM 1.13
Low Tide / height (m)			3:25PM 0.67				4:53AM 0.69					5:53PM 0.79				7:16AM 0.56
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	clear	some clouds	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	clear	light rain	light rain	cloudy	some clouds	light rain	light rain	clear	some clouds	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	-	-	1	1	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	23	22	21	14	16	15	16	18	9	11	10	10	9	9	8	8	12	12
Chill °C (?)	23	22	21	11	14	14	14	17	5	7	7	8	5	6	4	5	10	10
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:24	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:41	-	-
Sunset	-	-	5:59	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:25	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	4.0 SW	4.0 SW	-	-	5.0 SSW	0.6 ENE	3.0 SSW	3.5 SSW	5.5 SW	-	5.5 WSW	5.0 SW	0.2 S	4.5 SW	1.5 S	0.9 S	3.5 SW	3.5 SW
Period (s)	14	14	-	-	14	9	14	14	14	-	14	14	13	14	10	11	14	13
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.5 E	0.4 E	-	-	0.6 E	0.4 NE	0.7 ENE	0.6 ENE	-	-	-	-	-	0.2 SSE	-	0.3 SSE	-	-
Period (s)	10	10	-	-	9	8	9	9	-	-	-	-	-	13	-	13	-	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	4.5 SW	5.5 SW	7.5 SW	6.0 SW	5.0 SW	5.0 SW	5.5 SSW	-	5.5 SW	-	-	4.5 SW	5.0 SW	4.5 SW	4.5 SW	-	1.0 S
Period (s)	-	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	-	14	-	-	14	14	14	14	-	10

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