J-Bay Surf Forecast
/ Eastern Cape (S) (37 surf breaks) / South Africa (272 surf breaks) / Lat Long: (34.05° S 24.93° E)

J-Bay Surf Forecast / Eastern Cape (S) / South Africa
19 km away, 2 h 47 min ago

How big are the waves at J-Bay today?
The current surf forecast for J-Bay at 2AM is: 1.3m 11s primary swell from a Southwest direction and 0.6m 11s secondary swell from a South-southwest direction (forecast issued at 07:00pm April 13). The wind direction is predicted to be offshore and the swell rating is 3.
Time (SAST) & Date | Wave Height | Wave Period |
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Morning (14 Apr) | 3.5ft (1.1m) | 12s |
Afternoon (14 Apr) | 5.5ft (1.7m) | 12s |
Evening (14 Apr) | 6ft (1.8m) | 12s |
Table - waves today at J-Bay. (Swell directed towards the surf break)
Rating (10 max) |
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Swell Height Map |
Wave Height (m) & direction (?) |
Period(s) (?) |
Wave (?)Graph ![]() |
Energy (?) |
Wind (km/h) |
Wind State (?) onshore cross-onshore cross-shore cross-offshore offshore glassy |
High Tide / height (m) |
Low Tide / height (m) |
Summary |
Rain (mm) |
Temp. °C |
Chill °C (?) |
Sunrise |
Sunset |
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SW | SW | SW | SW | SW | SW | SW | SW | SW | SW | SW | SSW | SSW | SW | SW | SW | SW | SW | SW | SSW | SW | SW | S | SSE | SSE | SSE | SSE | SE | E | ESE | E | E | E | E | E | E | E | E | E | E | E | E | E | E | E | E | SW | SW | SW | SSW | ESE | S | SW | SSW | S | SW | SW | SW | SW | SW |
12 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 15 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 11 |
558 | 398 | 350 | 437 | 617 | 337 | 911 | 827 | 800 | 855 | 840 | 827 | 1447 | 2056 | 1904 | 1521 | 1352 | 1100 | 929 | 2641 | 1163 | 1013 | 1227 | 815 | 606 | 756 | 638 | 412 | 346 | 225 | 419 | 463 | 628 | 731 | 612 | 628 | 386 | 351 | 266 | 230 | 235 | 196 | 136 | 109 | 107 | 84 | 136 | 128 | 55 | 84 | 116 | 397 | 277 | 584 | 815 | 418 | 457 | 457 | 396 | 357 |
SE | SW | WSW | WNW | W | W | SSW | S | SSW | W | WNW | WNW | W | W | WSW | SW | SW | SSW | SSE | SSE | ESE | E | E | E | E | ENE | ENE | NE | NE | NE | ENE | E | ESE | NE | N | NNW | NNW | NNW | N | NNW | SE | WSW | WNW | W | W | WNW | SSE | SSE | ESE | NNW | NNW | NW | WSW | WSW | SW | SSW | SW | W | W | W |
on | glass | cross- off | off | off | cross- off | cross | cross | cross | cross- off | off | off | cross- off | off | cross- off | cross- off | cross- off | cross | cross- on | cross- on | on | on | on | on | cross- on | cross- on | cross- on | cross- on | cross- on | cross | cross- on | on | on | cross- on | cross | cross- off | cross- off | cross- off | cross- off | cross- off | on | cross- off | off | off | cross- off | glass | cross- on | cross- on | glass | cross- off | glass | glass | glass | cross- off | cross- off | cross | cross- off | off | cross- off | cross- off |
4:30PM 1.57 | 4:40AM 1.66 | 4:56PM 1.53 | 5:05AM 1.60 | 5:21PM 1.47 | 5:30AM 1.51 | 5:48PM 1.38 | 5:56AM 1.40 | 6:18PM 1.28 | 6:27AM 1.29 | 6:56PM 1.16 | 7:10AM 1.17 | 8:04PM 1.06 | 8:35AM 1.06 | 10:24PM 1.04 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10:31PM 0.12 | 10:52AM 0.11 | 10:56PM 0.17 | 11:17AM 0.17 | 11:21PM 0.25 | 11:43AM 0.26 | 11:48PM 0.35 | 12:11PM 0.36 | 12:17AM 0.46 | 12:46PM 0.47 | 12:57AM 0.58 | 1:40PM 0.58 | 2:10AM 0.70 | 3:30PM 0.65 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Note: the tide data above is for Albatross which is 4 km away. Surf properties and timing are calculated for J-Bay.New forecast is published every 6 hours at www.surf-forecast.com. See detailed tide info and graph | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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