Clovelly Surf Forecast

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South Africa (273 surf breaks)

Surf Forecasts:

Clovelly surfForecast / Cape Town / South Africa

48hr Weather and Surf, issued 7 am Thursday 04 Sep 2025 SAST

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

Today's Clovelly sea temperature is 15.6° C
(Which is normal for this time of year)

How big are the waves at Clovelly today?

The current surf forecast for Clovelly at 2PM is: 1.6m 11s primary swell from a Southwest direction and 0.5m 3s secondary swell from a South-southeast direction (forecast issued at 07:00am September 04). An open ocean swell of 0.2m 13s is not directed at the surf break. The wind direction is predicted to be onshore.

Time (SAST) & Date	Wave Height	Wave Period
Morning (04 Sep)	5ft (1.6m)	12s
Afternoon (04 Sep)	5ft (1.6m)	11s
Evening (04 Sep)	5ft (1.6m)	10s

Table - waves today at Clovelly. (Swell directed towards the surf break)

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	Thursday 04							Friday 05								Saturday 06								Sun 07
	5 AM	8 AM	11 AM	2 PM	5 PM	8 PM	11 PM	2 AM	5 AM	8 AM	11 AM	2 PM	5 PM	8 PM	11 PM	2 AM	5 AM	8 AM	11 AM	2 PM	5 PM	8 PM	11 PM	2 AM
Rating (10 max)	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0
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Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	SW	SW	SW	SW	SSW	SSW	SW	SW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW
Period(s) (?)	12	12	12	11	10	10	10	10	14	13	13	12	12	12	12	15	14	14	14	13	13	13	13	13
Wave Graph (?)
Energy (?)	672	714	698	574	589	530	578	568	515	1177	1166	1250	1292	1548	1703	2825	2873	2795	2462	2288	2067	1982	1501	1500
Wind (km/h)	SE	SE	SE	SSE	SSE	SSE	SSE	SSE	SSE	SSE	S	S	SSE	SSE	SSE	SSE	SSE	SE	SSE	SSE	SSE	SSE	SSE	SE
Wind State (?) onshore cross-onshore cross-shore cross-offshore offshore glassy	on	on	on	on	on	on	cross- on	on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	on	on	on	cross- on	on	on	on	on
High Tide / height (m)				1:28PM 1.25				1:34AM 1.31					2:01PM 1.41				2:11AM 1.43				2:33PM 1.55
Low Tide / height (m)		7:17AM 0.36				7:36PM 0.39				7:50AM 0.23					8:11PM 0.24				8:22AM 0.12				8:45PM 0.11

	Thursday 04							Friday 05								Saturday 06								Sun 07
Sunrise	-	7:01	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:00	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:58	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	6:29	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:30	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:30	-	-	-

Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	14	14	15	17	15	16	15	14	15	15	16	16	15	14	14	14	13	13	14	15	14	14	13	13
Feels °C (?)	13	12	13	15	13	14	12	10	11	11	12	12	10	9	10	10	9	11	11	12	10	10	9	9

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Recent Eyeball Surf Reports for Cape Town

Wind Update Continuing clean conditions at Clovelly (calm at Ottery wx 13 km from Clovelly). A 1.8m groundswell from the SW
1 hour 10 minutes ago Clovelly

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