Fanad Head Reef Surf Forecast

/ Donegal (44 surf breaks) /

Ireland (149 surf breaks)

Surf Forecasts

Fanad Head Reef surfForecast / Donegal / Ireland

48hr Weather and Surf, issued 12 pm Saturday 16 Aug 2025 IST

Forecast update in hr min s Forecast update imminent

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

Today's Fanad Head Reef sea temperature is 16.5° C
(Which is 2.0°C warmer than normal for this time of year)

How big are the waves at Fanad Head Reef today?

The current surf forecast for Fanad Head Reef at 7PM is: 0.3m 6s primary swell from a North-northwest direction and 0.2m 8s secondary swell from a West direction, 0.4m 3s secondary swell from a Northeast direction (forecast issued at 12:00pm August 16). The wind direction is predicted to be cross-offshore.

Time (IST) & Date	Wave Height	Wave Period
Morning (16 Aug)	1.5ft (0.4m)	8s
Afternoon (16 Aug)	1ft (0.3m)	8s
Evening (16 Aug)	1.5ft (0.4m)	6s

Table - waves today at Fanad Head Reef. (Swell directed towards the surf break)

Hourly 12 Days

Donegal Surf

Print Surf Table

Updates in hr min s Forecast update imminent

	Saturday 16					Sunday 17								Monday 18								Tuesday 19
	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	4 AM	7 AM
Rating (10 max)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Swell Height Map See all maps
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	W	W	W	NNW	NNW	NNW	NNW	N	NNW	NW	NW	NW	NW	NW	NW	NW	NW	NW	NW	NW	NW	NW	NW	WNW
Period(s) (?)	8	8	8	6	6	6	6	7	7	8	8	7	7	7	9	9	9	9	8	8	8	8	8	8
Wave Graph (?)
Energy (?)	15	15	21	17	22	19	16	21	31	29	30	34	35	32	55	44	42	42	32	26	20	18	18	14
Wind (km/h)	ENE	ENE	ENE	E	ESE	ESE	SE	SE	SE	ESE	ESE	ESE	ESE	ESE	ESE	ESE	SE	E	ESE	E	ESE	E	ESE	ESE
Wind State (?) onshore cross-onshore cross-shore cross-offshore offshore glassy	cross	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)		11:51AM 2.63				12:26AM 2.63					1:10PM 2.50				1:59AM 2.44				2:49PM 2.52				3:38AM 2.47
Low Tide / height (m)				5:59PM 0.80				6:43AM 0.92					7:26PM 0.98				8:12AM 1.03				9:09PM 0.97

	Saturday 16					Sunday 17								Monday 18								Tuesday 19
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:05	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:07	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:09
Sunset	-	-	-	9:02	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9:00	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:59	-	-	-	-

Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	13	17	20	20	18	18	17	17	18	22	23	22	19	19	19	18	19	22	23	22	20	19	19	18
Feels °C (?)	12	16	18	18	17	17	16	16	16	20	21	20	17	18	18	17	17	20	21	21	19	18	19	17

Map Icons:
Break
Live Wave Height (m)
Live Wind Speed (km/h)
Surf Rating (10 Max)
Ocean Swells (m)
Wind Speed (km/h)

Recent Eyeball Surf Reports for Donegal

Wind Update Still cross-shore at Fanad Head Reef (moderate winds from the ENE at Malin Head 22 km from Fanad Head Reef). No surfable waves
1 hour 47 minutes ago Fanad Head Reef

Expand

View all

22 km away, 1 h 47 min ago

25 km/h

ENE

0.0

16.5

Air / Water (°C)

Please reload the page to see if there are any updates.

FREE! Surf-Forecast.com widget for your website

The surf report / weather widget below is available to embed on third party websites free of charge and provides a summary of our Fanad Head Reef surf forecast. Simply grab the html code snippet that we provide and paste it into your own site. You can choose your preferred language and metric/imperial units for the surf forecast feed to suit users of your site. Click here to get the code.