Groenvlei Surf Forecast

/ Garden Route (22 surf breaks) /

South Africa (273 surf breaks) / Lat Long: (34.03° S 22.77° E)

Surf Forecasts

Groenvlei surfForecast / Garden Route / South Africa

48hr Weather and Surf, issued 1 am Sunday 17 Aug 2025 SAST

Forecast update in hr min s Forecast update imminent

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

Today's Groenvlei sea temperature is 16.9° C
(Which is normal for this time of year)

How big are the waves at Groenvlei today?

The current surf forecast for Groenvlei at 3AM is: 1.8m 11s primary swell from a East-southeast direction and 1.1m 12s secondary swell from a Southwest direction (forecast issued at 01:00am August 17). The wind direction is predicted to be cross-offshore and the swell rating is 4.

Time (SAST) & Date	Wave Height	Wave Period
Morning (17 Aug)	5.5ft (1.7m)	11s
Afternoon (17 Aug)	5ft (1.6m)	10s
Evening (17 Aug)	5ft (1.6m)	10s

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

Hourly 12 Days

Garden Route Surf

Print Surf Table

Updates in hr min s Forecast update imminent

		Sunday 17								Monday 18								Tuesday 19
	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	5 AM	8 AM	11 AM	2 PM	5 PM	8 PM
Rating (10 max)	3	4	2	2	2	0	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	3	3	4	4	4	2	3	4
Swell Height Map See all maps
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	ESE	ESE	ESE	ESE	ESE	ESE	ESE	ESE	ESE	E	E	ESE	ESE	SSW	SSW	SSW	SW	SW	SSW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW
Period(s) (?)	10	10	11	11	11	10	10	10	10	10	9	9	9	18	17	16	16	16	18	17	16	15	15	14
Wave Graph (?)
Energy (?)	774	1003	947	950	787	648	672	710	614	383	360	389	527	540	670	636	686	546	1669	2196	2388	1894	1578	1344
Wind (km/h)	NE	NNE	NE	NE	SE	SE	ESE	ENE	NE	NW	NNW	NNW	SW	SW	W	NNW	NNW	NNW	NNW	NNW	WSW	SSW	SSW	NNE
Wind State (?) onshore cross-onshore cross-shore cross-offshore offshore glassy	glass	cross- off	cross	cross	on	on	cross- on	cross	cross	off	off	glass	cross	cross	cross- off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross	cross	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)	8:51PM 1.37				9:48AM 1.14				10:46PM 1.27					12:05PM 1.18				12:38AM 1.33				1:26PM 1.34
Low Tide / height (m)			3:30AM 0.62				3:54PM 0.69					5:41AM 0.64				6:16PM 0.66				7:15AM 0.52				7:38PM 0.52

		Sunday 17								Monday 18								Tuesday 19
Sunrise	-	-	-	7:05	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:05	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:03	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:00	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:00	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:00	-

Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	15	14	13	14	18	18	19	16	16	16	16	17	19	18	16	15	15	15	15	15	17	17	16	15
Feels °C (?)	15	13	12	13	17	15	17	15	16	15	15	16	16	15	15	14	13	13	14	14	15	14	15	14

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 Garden Route

Wind Update Continuing clean conditions at Groenvlei (calm at George Airport 37 km from Groenvlei). 1.6m 10s swell from the ESE with a 0.9m 7s swell from the SW and a 0.7m 12s groundswell from the SSW. 3 swells combining so expect closeout sets.
1 hour 48 minutes ago Groenvlei

Expand

View all

37 km away, 1 h 48 min ago

4 km/h

0.0

16.9

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 Groenvlei 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.