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Esterillos Oeste, Costa Rica

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Playa Jaco ratings
Quality on a good day: 3.5
Consistency of surf: 4.0
Difficulty level: 2.5
Crowds: 3.0
Accommodation: 5.0

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Playa Jaco Surf Forecast / Costa-Rica – Golfo de Nicoya / Costa Rica

48hr Weather and Surf Issued (local time): 11 am Monday 04 Jun 2012

Playa Jaco surf forecast is for near shore open water. Breaking waves will often be smaller at less exposed spots.

Rating 3
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Largest waves (m) & direction (?) 1.1
SW
1.1
SW
1.0
SW
0.9
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0.9
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0.9
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0.9
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0.7
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SW
Period (s) (?) 15 15 15 15 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 13 13 13 13
Surfscale
Wave
Graph

(?)
Max-energy 512 499 429 355 350 346 341 341 293 234 228 224 221 218 215 183 183 144
Wind
(km/h)
0
N 5
SW 10
SW 5
W 5
W 5
NNW 5
NNW 5
N 0
W 5
SW 10
SW 10
WSW 5
SW 0
NE 5
N 5
N 5
NNW 5
SW
Wind State (?) glass on on cross-
on
glass glass glass glass glass on on cross-
on
glass glass glass cross-
off
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Key to wind character - offshore winds at Playa Jaco blow from the NE
onshore cross-onshore cross-shore cross-offshore offshore glassy
Tide State (?) low flow high ebb low flow high ebb low flow flow high ebb low flow high ebb low
High Tide
/ height (m)


2:22PM
3.09



2:57AM
2.89




3:15PM
3.13



3:49AM
2.96


Low Tide
/ height (m)
8:01AM
-0.00



8:39PM
-0.25



8:56AM
-0.07




9:30PM
-0.30



9:50AM
-0.09
 

Note: the tide data above is for Puntarenas, Costa Rica which is 46 km away. Surf properties and timing are calculated for Playa Jaco. New forecast is published every 6 hours at www.surf-forecast.com. See detailed tide info and graph.

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Today's Playa Jaco sea temperature is 30.0 °C (Statistics for 04 Jun 1981-2005 - mean: 28.7 max: 30.2 min: 27.6 °C)

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Rain (mm) - 1 3 2 - 1 1 - 1 1 4 4 7 4 1 - 1 1
Temp. °C 30 31 30 29 28 28 28 27 29 30 30 28 28 27 26 26 29 30
Chill °C (?) 30 31 30 29 28 28 28 27 29 30 30 28 28 27 26 26 29 30
Sunrise 5:16 - - - - - - 5:16 - - - - - - - 5:16 - -
Sunset - - 17:55 - - - - - - - 17:57 - - - - - - -
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