El Medano Surf Forecast

/ Tenerife (25 surf breaks) /

Spain (115 surf breaks) / Lat Long: (28.04° N 16.54° W)

Surf Forecasts:

El Medano surfForecast / Tenerife / Spain

48hr Weather and Surf, issued 6 pm Wednesday 20 Aug 2025 WEST

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

Today's El Medano sea temperature is 23.4° C
(Which is normal for this time of year)

How big are the waves at El Medano today?

The current surf forecast for El Medano at 12AM is: 1.4m 6s primary swell from a Northeast direction and 0.4m 15s secondary swell from a South-southwest direction, 0.3m 20s secondary swell from a South-southwest direction (forecast issued at 06:00pm August 20). The wind direction is predicted to be cross-onshore.

Time (WEST) & Date	Wave Height	Wave Period
Morning (21 Aug)	-	-
Afternoon (21 Aug)	5ft (1.5m)	6s
Evening (21 Aug)	5ft (1.5m)	6s

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

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	Wednesday 20			Thursday 21								Friday 22								Saturday 23
	4 PM	7 PM	10 PM	1 AM	4 AM	7 AM	10 AM	1 PM	4 PM	7 PM	10 PM	1 AM	4 AM	7 AM	10 AM	1 PM	4 PM	7 PM	10 PM	1 AM	4 AM	7 AM	10 AM	1 PM
Rating (10 max)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0
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Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	NE	NE	NE	NE	NE	NE	NE	SSW	NE	NE	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW
Period(s) (?)	6	6	6	6	6	8	8	18	8	8	18	17	16	16	16	16	16	16	15	15	15	15	15	14
Wave Graph (?)
Energy (?)	327	389	277	274	304	353	319	469	666	785	509	550	800	807	566	590	781	729	718	507	493	577	562	518
Wind (km/h)	NE	NE	NE	NE	NE	NE	NE	ENE	NE	NE	NE	NE	NE	NE	NE	ENE	ENE	ENE	NE	NE	NE	NE	ENE	ENE
Wind State (?) onshore cross-onshore cross-shore cross-offshore offshore glassy	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross	cross	cross	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross	cross- on	cross- on	cross	cross- on	cross- on
High Tide / height (m)				12:53AM 1.67					1:06PM 1.92				1:35AM 1.77				1:46PM 2.03				2:12AM 1.84
Low Tide / height (m)		6:44PM 0.27				6:52AM 0.33					7:27PM 0.15				7:32AM 0.23				8:05PM 0.08				8:08AM 0.16

	Wednesday 20			Thursday 21								Friday 22								Saturday 23
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:39	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:39	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:39	-
Sunset	-	8:39	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:38	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:37	-	-	-	-	-	-

Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	26	25	24	23	23	23	24	25	26	25	24	24	24	24	25	26	25	24	24	24	24	24	25	26
Feels °C (?)	23	20	20	19	20	19	22	22	23	23	22	23	24	24	25	26	24	23	24	23	23	23	24	25

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Recent Eyeball Surf Reports for Tenerife

Wind Update The wind is still cross-on at El Medano (moderate winds from the ENE at Tenerife Sur/Reina Sofia Airport 2 km from El Medano). 2.0m 6s windswell from the ENE with a 0.5m 14s groundswell from the SSW. 2 swells combining to make bigger set waves.
35 minutes ago El Medano

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Actual: 35 min ago

26 km/h

ENE

Cross-On

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