Rackwick Surf Forecast

/ Scot – Orkney (6 surf breaks) /

UK (471 surf breaks)

Surf Forecasts:

Rackwick surfForecast / Scot – Orkney / UK

48hr Weather and Surf, issued 12 am Sunday 14 Sep 2025 BST

Forecast update in hr min s Forecast update imminent

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

Today's Rackwick sea temperature is 14.0° C
(Which is 1.5°C warmer than normal for this time of year)

How big are the waves at Rackwick today?

The current surf forecast for Rackwick at 2AM is: 1.3m 10s primary swell from a West direction and 0.5m 13s secondary swell from a West direction (forecast issued at 12:00am September 14). The wind direction is predicted to be cross-onshore.

Time (BST) & Date	Wave Height	Wave Period
Morning (14 Sep)	4.5ft (1.3m)	11s
Afternoon (14 Sep)	4.5ft (1.3m)	11s
Evening (14 Sep)	3.5ft (1.0m)	10s

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

Updates in hr min s Forecast update imminent

12 Days Hourly

Print Table

		Sunday 14								Monday 15								Tuesday 16
	10 PM	1 AM	4 AM	7 AM	10 AM	1 PM	4 PM	7 PM	10 PM	1 AM	4 AM	7 AM	10 AM	1 PM	4 PM	7 PM	10 PM	1 AM	4 AM	7 AM	10 AM	1 PM	4 PM	7 PM
Rating (10 max)	1	1	0	2	3	2	0	0	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 (?)	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	N	N	N	W	W	W	W	W	WNW	NW	NNW
Period(s) (?)	11	10	10	10	12	11	11	10	10	10	10	9	9	10	10	10	15	14	14	14	13	6	6	8
Wave Graph (?)
kJ (?)	441	346	284	290	520	467	389	259	161	158	117	83	60	54	52	50	109	106	148	140	126	119	219	597
Wind (km/h)	NW	WNW	W	W	ESE	ESE	SE	SE	ESE	SE	E	E	ENE	ENE	NE	NNE	N	WNW	WNW	W	WSW	NNW	NNW	N
Wind State (?) onshore cross-onshore cross-shore cross-offshore offshore glassy	cross	cross	cross- on	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross	cross- off	cross	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	off	off	cross- off	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)			1:25AM 2.71				1:53PM 2.56				2:48AM 2.42				3:21PM 2.41					4:35AM 2.31				5:01PM 2.44
Low Tide / height (m)	7:16PM 0.54				7:47AM 0.77				8:22PM 0.78				9:00AM 1.05				9:57PM 0.92					10:42AM 1.16

		Sunday 14								Monday 15								Tuesday 16
Sunrise	-	-	-	6:37	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:41	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:43	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:37	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:35	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:31

Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	1	2	2	1	1	1	1	-	-	1	1	1	1
Temp. °C	12	12	13	12	12	13	13	13	13	13	13	12	12	13	13	12	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13
Feels °C (?)	10	10	10	10	10	9	7	6	5	6	5	3	3	6	5	4	7	9	7	5	5	7	7	6

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 Scot - Orkney

Wind Update calm at Stromness mean that is clean at Rackwick. A 1.0m swell from the W
51 minutes ago Rackwick

Expand

View all

Actual: 51 min ago

5 km/h

Clean

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 Rackwick 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.