Nine Mile Reef Surf Forecast

/ Cape Town (70 surf breaks) /

South Africa (276 surf breaks)

Surf Forecasts:

Nine Mile Reef surfForecast / Cape Town / South Africa

48hr Weather and Surf, issued 7 am Wednesday 19 Nov 2025 SAST

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

Today's Nine Mile Reef sea temperature is 14.7° C
(Which is 3.1°C colder than average for this time of year)

How big are the waves at Nine Mile Reef today?

The current surf forecast for Nine Mile Reef at 12PM is: 0.8m 13s primary swell from a Southwest direction and 0.2m 20s secondary swell from a South-southwest direction, 1.1m 4s secondary swell from a South-southeast direction (forecast issued at 07:00am November 19). The wind direction is predicted to be onshore.

Time (SAST) & Date	Wave Height	Wave Period
Morning (19 Nov)	2.5ft (0.7m)	13s
Afternoon (19 Nov)	3ft (0.9m)	13s
Evening (19 Nov)	3ft (0.9m)	17s

Table - waves today at Nine Mile Reef. (Swell directed towards the surf break)

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	Wednesday 19							Thursday 20								Friday 21								Sat 22
	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	11 PM	2 AM
Rating (10 max)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Swell Height Map See all maps
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SSW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW
Period(s) (?)	13	13	13	13	13	17	17	16	15	16	16	19	17	15	15	15	14	14	14	13	13	13	12	12
Wave Graph (?)
kJ (?)	208	205	172	202	230	528	632	739	1118	1074	1339	2510	2403	1859	2002	1739	1504	1376	929	745	649	555	521	458
Wind (km/h)	SE	SE	SSE	SSE	SSE	SSE	SE	SSE	SSE	SSE	SSE	SSE	SSE	SSE	SE	SE	SE	SSE	SSE	SSE	SSE	SE	SE	SE
Wind State (?) onshore cross-onshore cross-shore cross-offshore offshore glassy	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	on	on	on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	on	on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on
High Tide / height (m)	2:31AM 1.38				2:34PM 1.46				3:01AM 1.40				3:05PM 1.46				3:31AM 1.40				3:36PM 1.43
Low Tide / height (m)			8:32AM 0.29				8:53PM 0.16				9:02AM 0.28				9:22PM 0.16				9:33AM 0.29				9:52PM 0.19

	Wednesday 19							Thursday 20								Friday 21								Sat 22
Sunrise	-	5:31	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:30	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:30	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	7:30	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:30	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:31	-	-	-

Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	15	18	23	22	21	19	17	16	16	19	23	23	22	19	18	17	17	19	24	24	23	20	17	16
Feels °C (?)	12	14	18	15	15	15	14	13	12	15	17	17	17	14	15	14	14	15	19	18	16	15	13	13

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