Santos Reef Surf Forecast

/ Garden Route (22 surf breaks) /

South Africa (273 surf breaks)

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Santos Reef surfForecast / Garden Route / South Africa

48hr Weather and Surf, issued 7 am Friday 24 Oct 2025 SAST

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

Today's Santos Reef sea temperature is 18.7° C
(Which is 1.1°C warmer than normal for this time of year)

How big are the waves at Santos Reef today?

The current surf forecast for Santos Reef at 2PM is: 2.5m 12s primary swell from a South-southwest direction and 0.2m 10s secondary swell from a East direction (forecast issued at 07:00am October 24). The wind direction is predicted to be cross-offshore.

Time (SAST) & Date	Wave Height	Wave Period
Morning (24 Oct)	8ft (2.5m)	13s
Afternoon (24 Oct)	7.5ft (2.3m)	12s
Evening (24 Oct)	6.5ft (2.0m)	11s

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

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	Friday 24							Saturday 25								Sunday 26								Mon 27
	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)	4	4	4	2	1	3	2	2	2	1	2	3	1	1	1	1	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2
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Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SW	SSW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SSW	SW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW
Period(s) (?)	14	13	13	12	12	11	11	12	11	11	11	10	10	6	8	8	9	10	12	12	12	12	12	12
Wave Graph (?)
kJ (?)	2250	2385	2278	1810	1402	1045	876	794	669	582	467	614	400	136	328	356	989	1042	1560	1560	1447	1338	1256	1277
Wind (km/h)	WNW	SSE	SSE	SSE	SE	SSW	SW	WSW	WSW	WSW	SW	SW	SW	WSW	W	SSW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SSE	ESE	W	WNW
Wind State (?) onshore cross-onshore cross-shore cross-offshore offshore glassy	cross- off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross	cross- off	off	cross- off	off	cross- off	off	off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	off	off	cross- off	glass	cross- off	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)	4:36AM 1.86				4:41PM 1.94					5:02AM 1.78				5:06PM 1.84				5:32AM 1.68				5:35PM 1.73
Low Tide / height (m)			10:25AM 0.45				10:48PM 0.40				10:51AM 0.54					11:16PM 0.49				11:20AM 0.65				11:47PM 0.60

	Friday 24							Saturday 25								Sunday 26								Mon 27
Sunrise	-	5:39	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:37	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:37	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	6:52	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:52	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:53	-	-	-

Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	15	17	19	19	18	17	17	16	16	16	17	17	17	16	14	14	15	14	15	15	16	15	14	12
Feels °C (?)	14	17	17	16	15	15	15	14	13	13	13	13	12	12	11	10	12	11	11	11	13	14	12	8

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Recent Eyeball Surf Reports for Garden Route

Wind Update The wind is still cross-off at Santos Reef (light winds from the SSE.(Wind varies from 100 to 180 degs) at George Airport 29 km from Santos Reef). 2.7m 13s groundswell from the SSW with a 0.6m 9s swell from the E. 2 swells combining so expect closeout sets.
1 hour 43 minutes ago Santos Reef

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29 km away, 1 h 43 min ago

15 km/h

SSE

0.0

18.7

Air / Water (°C)

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