Lights Beach Surf Forecast

/ WA – Far South (31 breaks) / Western Australia (159 breaks) /

Australia (828 breaks) / Lat Long: (35.03° S 117.29° E)

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Lights Beach surfForecast / WA – Far South / Australia

48hr Weather and Surf, issued 1 pm Thursday 16 Oct 2025 AWST

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

Today's Lights Beach sea temperature is 17.6° C
(Which is 1.5°C warmer than normal for this time of year)

How big are the waves at Lights Beach today?

The current surf forecast for Lights Beach at 4PM is: 2.5m 14s primary swell from a Southwest direction (forecast issued at 01:00pm October 16). An open ocean swell of 0.2m 7s is not directed at the surf break. The wind direction is predicted to be cross-onshore.

Time (AWST) & Date	Wave Height	Wave Period
Morning (16 Oct)	8ft (2.5m)	15s
Afternoon (16 Oct)	8ft (2.5m)	14s
Evening (16 Oct)	7.5ft (2.3m)	14s

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

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	Thursday 16					Friday 17								Saturday 18								Sunday 19
	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	11 PM	2 AM	5 AM	8 AM
Rating (10 max)	1	0	1	3	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	2	3	!	!	!	!	!	!	!	4	3	!
Swell Height Map See all maps
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	W	WSW	WSW	WSW	WSW	WSW	WSW	WSW	WSW	SW
Period(s) (?)	15	14	14	14	14	14	14	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	8	9	10	11	11	11	11	11	11	12
Wave Graph (?)
kJ (?)	2708	2492	2458	2155	1996	1754	1549	1438	1306	1127	1034	990	734	679	1119	2247	2930	3646	4003	2917	2128	1822	1815	2453
Wind (km/h)	WSW	SW	WSW	W	NW	NNW	NNE	NNE	N	NNW	SW	NNW	NW	NW	WNW	WNW	W	W	W	WNW	NNW	NNW	NNW	NW
Wind State (?) onshore cross-onshore cross-shore cross-offshore offshore glassy	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	on	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross	cross	cross	cross	cross	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)					10:56PM 0.46				8:51AM 0.58				10:17PM 0.48				9:18AM 0.54				9:56PM 0.52
Low Tide / height (m)			4:00PM 0.11				3:14AM 0.38				4:00PM 0.17				3:36AM 0.31				3:51PM 0.22				4:01AM 0.26

	Thursday 16					Friday 17								Saturday 18								Sunday 19
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:26	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:24	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:24
Sunset	-	-	6:24	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:25	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:27	-	-	-	-	-

Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	20	19	18	17	15	15	14	16	23	27	19	19	19	18	17	16	18	16	16	14	11	10	10	14
Feels °C (?)	17	16	16	16	15	15	13	15	20	23	18	16	15	15	13	10	11	9	9	9	7	6	6	10

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Recent Eyeball Surf Reports for WA - Far South

Wind Update Recent clean conditions at Lights Beach have likely become affected by the arrival of onshore winds (light winds from the SW at Albany Airport 48 km from Lights Beach). 2.4m 13s groundswell from the SW with a 0.5m 15s groundswell from the WSW. 2 swells combining to make bigger set waves.
1 hour 19 minutes ago Lights Beach

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48 km away, 1 h 19 min ago

13 km/h

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17.6

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