Shallows Surf Forecast

/ NSW – Newcastle (55 breaks) / New South Wales (297 breaks) /

Australia (828 breaks)

Surf Forecasts:

Shallows surfForecast / NSW – Newcastle / Australia

48hr Weather and Surf, issued 3 pm Monday 15 Sep 2025 AEST

Forecast update in hr min s Forecast update imminent

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

Today's Shallows sea temperature is 18.3° C
(Which is normal for this time of year)

How big are the waves at Shallows today?

The current surf forecast for Shallows at 5PM is: 0.5m 9s primary swell from a South direction and 0.2m 10s secondary swell from a East direction, 0.4m 3s secondary swell from a Northwest direction (forecast issued at 03:00pm September 15). The wind direction is predicted to be cross-onshore.

Time (AEST) & Date	Wave Height	Wave Period
Morning (15 Sep)	-	-
Afternoon (15 Sep)	2ft (0.6m)	10s
Evening (15 Sep)	1.5ft (0.5m)	9s

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

Updates in hr min s Forecast update imminent

12 Days Hourly

Print Table

	Monday 15				Tuesday 16								Wednesday 17								Thursday 18
	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	10 PM	1 AM	4 AM	7 AM	10 AM
Rating (10 max)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Swell Height Map See all maps
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	S	S	S	SSE	SSE	SSE	SSE	E	E	E	S	E	ENE	E	ENE	ENE	ENE	ENE	ENE	SE	S	S	S	S
Period(s) (?)	10	10	9	9	9	9	9	12	12	12	8	12	8	12	8	8	8	7	7	4	10	10	6	11
Wave Graph (?)
kJ (?)	68	47	42	27	26	26	15	14	14	13	5	4	56	3	23	23	11	10	10	5	7	18	32	37
Wind (km/h)	NW	NNW	N	NNW	NNW	NNW	NNW	NNW	NW	NNW	N	NNW	NW	WNW	WNW	NW	NW	NW	SSE	SW	SW	WSW	WNW	W
Wind State (?) onshore cross-onshore cross-shore cross-offshore offshore glassy	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross	cross	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass
High Tide / height (m)		2:33PM 1.44				3:47AM 0.95				3:48PM 1.45					4:58AM 1.01				4:54PM 1.48				5:52AM 1.09
Low Tide / height (m)				9:47PM 0.32				9:04AM 0.53					10:57PM 0.27				10:22AM 0.49				11:50PM 0.22

	Monday 15				Tuesday 16								Wednesday 17								Thursday 18
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:52	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:50	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:48	-
Sunset	-	5:44	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:44	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:45	-	-	-	-	-	-

Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	23	24	23	20	20	18	18	20	24	25	23	21	20	19	19	21	23	23	18	18	16	14	13	16
Feels °C (?)	18	20	21	17	17	15	15	16	19	21	20	19	18	17	17	19	20	22	15	15	12	10	10	15

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 NSW - Newcastle

Wind Update Still cross-shore at Shallows (light winds from the WNW at Merewether 5 km from Shallows). 0.6m 10s swell from the S with a 0.3m 6s windswell from the ENE and a 0.2m 10s swell from the E. 3 swells combining to make bigger set waves.
2 hours 50 minutes ago Shallows

Expand

View all

2 h 50 min ago

11 km/h

WNW

Cross-Shore

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 Shallows 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.