Playa Cavancha Surf Forecast

/ Tarapaca (19 surf breaks) /

Chile (94 surf breaks) / Lat Long: (20.23° S 70.15° W)

Surf Forecasts:

Playa Cavancha surfForecast / Tarapaca / Chile

48hr Weather and Surf, issued 8 pm Wednesday 01 Oct 2025 -04

Forecast update in hr min s Forecast update imminent

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

Today's Playa Cavancha sea temperature is 16.6° C
(Which is slightly cooler than normal)

How big are the waves at Playa Cavancha today?

The current surf forecast for Playa Cavancha at 12AM is: 1.7m 13s primary swell from a Southwest direction and 0.4m 20s secondary swell from a Southwest direction (forecast issued at 08:00pm October 01). The wind direction is predicted to be cross-onshore.

Time (-04) & Date	Wave Height	Wave Period
Morning (02 Oct)	-	-
Afternoon (02 Oct)	-	-
Evening (02 Oct)	5.5ft (1.7m)	12s

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

Updates in hr min s Forecast update imminent

12 Days Hourly

Print Table

	Wed 01		Thursday 02								Friday 03								Saturday 04
	6 PM	9 PM	0 AM	3 AM	6 AM	9 AM	12 PM	3 PM	6 PM	9 PM	0 AM	3 AM	6 AM	9 AM	12 PM	3 PM	6 PM	9 PM	0 AM	3 AM	6 AM	9 AM	12 PM	3 PM
Rating (10 max)	2	2	3	4	3	3	2	2	2	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	1	1
Swell Height Map See all maps
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW
Period(s) (?)	12	12	13	13	13	13	14	16	16	15	15	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	13	13	14	14
Wave Graph (?)
kJ (?)	860	860	903	961	991	947	1019	1958	1909	1694	1542	1500	1271	1271	1079	1079	902	890	787	681	651	651	586	612
Wind (km/h)	SW	S	SW	S	SSW	SSW	SW	SW	SW	SSW	N	NNE	SW	WSW	WSW	WSW	SW	SSW	NW	WSW	S	SSW	SW	SW
Wind State (?) onshore cross-onshore cross-shore cross-offshore offshore glassy	cross- on	cross	cross- on	glass	cross	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	glass	glass	glass	glass	glass	on	on	glass	glass	glass	glass	glass	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on
High Tide / height (m)		6:31PM 0.79				6:21AM 1.17				7:19PM 0.86				7:12AM 1.22				7:58PM 0.94				7:55AM 1.26
Low Tide / height (m)			11:28PM 0.61					1:31PM 0.45				12:37AM 0.55				2:05PM 0.39				1:31AM 0.49				2:36PM 0.34

	Wed 01		Thursday 02								Friday 03								Saturday 04
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	7:20	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:20	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:18	-	-
Sunset	7:37	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:37	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:38	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

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

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 Tarapaca

Wind Update Recent cross-onshore wind has turned cross-shore at Playa Cavancha (light winds from the SSW at Iquique/Diego Aracena Airport 32 km from Playa Cavancha). 1.5m 12s groundswell from the SW with a 0.6m 15s groundswell, also from the SW. 2 swells combining so expect closeout sets.
1 hour 44 minutes ago Playa Cavancha

Expand

View all

32 km away, 1 h 44 min ago

15 km/h

SSW

0.0

16.6

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 Playa Cavancha 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.