El Medano Surf Forecast

/ Tenerife (25 surf breaks) /

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

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El Medano surfForecast / Tenerife / Spain

48hr Weather and Surf, issued 6 am Wednesday 17 Sep 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 23.8° 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 10AM is: 0.7m 17s primary swell from a South-southwest direction and 0.9m 4s secondary swell from a Northeast direction (forecast issued at 06:00am September 17). An open ocean swell of 0.1m 11s is not directed at the surf break. The wind direction is predicted to be cross-onshore.

Time (WEST) & Date	Wave Height	Wave Period
Morning (17 Sep)	2.5ft (0.7m)	17s
Afternoon (17 Sep)	1.5ft (0.5m)	16s
Evening (17 Sep)	2ft (0.6m)	16s

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

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	Wednesday 17							Thursday 18								Friday 19								Sat 20
	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	4 PM	7 PM	10 PM	1 AM
Rating (10 max)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	1
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Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	SSW	SSW	SSW	S	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW
Period(s) (?)	18	15	17	16	16	16	16	16	15	15	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	13	13	13	13	13	13	13
Wave Graph (?)
kJ (?)	106	121	297	137	146	144	259	256	246	225	218	218	280	280	276	273	250	239	236	232	232	178	135	225
Wind (km/h)	NE	NE	NE	ENE	ENE	ENE	ENE	NE	NE	NE	NE	E	ESE	SE	N	ENE	NNE	WNW	ENE	NE	NNE	NE	NE	NE
Wind State (?) onshore cross-onshore cross-shore cross-offshore offshore glassy	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross	cross- on	cross- on	on	on	glass	glass	cross- on	cross	off	cross- on	cross- on	cross	cross- on	cross	glass
High Tide / height (m)				11:15AM 1.64				11:58PM 1.56				12:08PM 1.79				12:40AM 1.68				12:49PM 1.92
Low Tide / height (m)		5:01AM 0.60				5:48PM 0.38				5:56AM 0.47				6:33PM 0.25				6:38AM 0.34					7:09PM 0.16

	Wednesday 17							Thursday 18								Friday 19								Sat 20
Sunrise	-	-	7:50	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:52	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:52	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	8:08	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:07	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:06	-	-

Rain (mm)	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	28	29	30	29	28	26	27	28	27	27	28	28	31	30	30	28	28	28	29	30	30	29	29	28
Feels °C (?)	24	26	27	27	27	25	27	28	27	27	29	29	32	32	31	28	26	28	29	31	31	29	30	31

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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). 1.0m 4s local chop from the NE with a 0.4m 16s long period groundswell from the SSW and a 0.3m 13s groundswell, also from the SSW. 3 swells combining to make bigger set waves.
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