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 Monday 20 Oct 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 23.6° 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 1AM is: 0.3m 15s primary swell from a South-southwest direction and 0.5m 4s secondary swell from a Northeast direction (forecast issued at 06:00pm October 20). An open ocean swell of 0.3m 11s is not directed at the surf break, a second open ocean swell of 0.3m 8s is not directed at the surf break. The wind direction is predicted to be cross-onshore.

Time (WEST) & Date	Wave Height	Wave Period
Morning (21 Oct)	0.5ft (0.2m)	14s
Afternoon (21 Oct)	2.5ft (0.7m)	4s
Evening (21 Oct)	3ft (0.9m)	4s

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

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	Monday 20			Tuesday 21								Wednesday 22								Thursday 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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
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Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	S	ENE	ENE	ENE	NE	NE	NE	NE	NE	S	ENE	ENE	S	S	NE	NE	S	NE
Period(s) (?)	15	15	15	15	15	14	14	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	12	4	4	19	19	6	7	18	7
Wave Graph (?)
kJ (?)	21	21	42	42	21	21	15	8	17	17	24	29	26	26	17	11	12	18	28	27	30	43	24	23
Wind (km/h)	ENE	ENE	NE	ENE	ENE	NE	NE	ENE	ENE	NE	NE	NE	NE	NE	NE	ENE	ENE	ENE	NE	NE	NE	NE	NE	ENE
Wind State (?) onshore cross-onshore cross-shore cross-offshore offshore glassy	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross	cross	cross	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross	cross	cross	cross- on	cross- on
High Tide / height (m)	1:27PM 1.93				1:46AM 1.90				1:57PM 1.92				2:14AM 1.92				2:27PM 1.88				2:42AM 1.90
Low Tide / height (m)			7:36PM 0.14				7:49AM 0.18				8:03PM 0.14				8:18AM 0.16				8:30PM 0.17				8:48AM 0.18

	Monday 20			Tuesday 21								Wednesday 22								Thursday 23
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:08	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:11	-
Sunset	-	7:31	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:30	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:30	-	-	-	-	-	-

Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	24	24	23	23	23	23	23	24	24	23	23	23	23	22	23	24	24	23	23	23	23	22	23	24
Feels °C (?)	27	25	23	24	23	23	23	23	22	21	21	21	22	21	22	23	23	23	23	24	24	23	24	25

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Recent Eyeball Surf Reports for Tenerife

Wind Update Continuing clean conditions at El Medano (light winds from the ENE at Tenerife Sur/Reina Sofia Airport 2 km from El Medano). 0.8m 4s local chop from the ENE with a 0.3m 14s groundswell from the SSW and a 0.2m 10s swell, also from the SSW. 3 swells combining to make bigger set waves.
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Actual: 55 min ago

9 km/h

ENE

Clean

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