Santos Reef Surf Forecast

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Santos Reef surfForecast / Garden Route / South Africa

48hr Weather and Surf, issued 1 am Sunday 07 Sep 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 17.3° C
(Which is slightly warmer than usual)

How big are the waves at Santos Reef today?

The current surf forecast for Santos Reef at 6AM is: 2.2m 12s primary swell from a South-southwest direction and 0.2m 11s secondary swell from a East direction (forecast issued at 01:00am September 07). The wind direction is predicted to be glassy and the swell rating is 3.

Time (SAST) & Date	Wave Height	Wave Period
Morning (07 Sep)	7ft (2.2m)	12s
Afternoon (07 Sep)	7.5ft (2.3m)	13s
Evening (07 Sep)	8ft (2.4m)	14s

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

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		Sunday 07								Monday 08								Tuesday 09
	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	11 AM	2 PM	5 PM	8 PM
Rating (10 max)	1	2	3	3	2	1	1	2	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	3	3	3	3	1
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Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SW	SW	SSW
Period(s) (?)	13	13	12	12	12	13	13	14	14	15	15	15	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	13	13	13	13	13
Wave Graph (?)
Energy (?)	1825	1631	1431	1408	1556	1695	1967	2347	2487	2901	3145	2760	2387	2362	2341	2047	1934	2422	2161	1368	1234	1157	1156	988
Wind (km/h)	ENE	ENE	NE	N	SE	SE	SE	SE	ESE	E	ESE	E	E	ESE	ESE	E	E	ENE	NE	NNW	SW	S	SW	W
Wind State (?) onshore cross-onshore cross-shore cross-offshore offshore glassy	on	cross- on	glass	glass	cross	cross	cross	cross	cross	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	on	glass	glass	cross- off	off	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)			3:15AM 2.00				3:33PM 2.16				3:48AM 2.08				4:06PM 2.24				4:23AM 2.11				4:41PM 2.27
Low Tide / height (m)	9:09PM 0.27				9:19AM 0.19				9:42PM 0.16				9:51AM 0.12				10:15PM 0.11				10:23AM 0.10

		Sunday 07								Monday 08								Tuesday 09
Sunrise	-	-	-	6:41	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:41	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:39	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:16	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:16	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:17	-

Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	13	13	13	13	17	17	16	16	16	16	16	16	18	18	18	17	17	17	17	17	22	22	21	17
Feels °C (?)	11	12	13	13	17	15	14	14	14	15	14	13	14	13	13	13	15	17	18	17	22	21	20	15

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Recent Eyeball Surf Reports for Garden Route

Wind Update Continuing clean conditions at Santos Reef (calm at George Airport 29 km from Santos Reef). 2.4m 13s groundswell from the SSW to make surfable waves.
1 hour 52 minutes ago Santos Reef

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29 km away, 1 h 52 min ago

4 km/h

NNW

0.0

17.3

Air / Water (°C)

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