Skull Island Surf Forecast

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Skull Island surfForecast / New Georgia / Solomon Islands

48hr Weather and Surf, issued 4 pm Tuesday 16 Sep 2025 +11

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

Today's Skull Island sea temperature is 29.1° C
(Which is 1.0°C warmer than normal for this time of year)

How big are the waves at Skull Island today?

The current surf forecast for Skull Island at 11PM is: 0.6m 16s primary swell from a South direction and 1.0m 9s secondary swell from a South direction (forecast issued at 04:00pm September 16). The wind direction is predicted to be cross-offshore and the swell rating is 2.

Time (+11) & Date	Wave Height	Wave Period
Morning (16 Sep)	-	-
Afternoon (16 Sep)	4ft (1.2m)	10s
Evening (16 Sep)	2ft (0.6m)	16s

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

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	Tuesday 16				Wednesday 17								Thursday 18								Friday 19
	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	5 AM	8 AM	11 AM
Rating (10 max)	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	2	1	1	2	3	3	1	2	0	1	2	2	2	2
Swell Height Map See all maps
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	SSE	SSE	SE	SE	SSE	SSE	SE	SE	SSE	SSE	SSE	SSE	SSE	SSE	SSE	SSE
Period(s) (?)	10	9	9	16	9	9	9	14	8	8	8	8	8	9	9	9	9	9	9	8	8	8	8	8
Wave Graph (?)
Energy (?)	466	463	430	384	320	306	300	265	240	286	519	457	242	268	783	785	281	232	188	198	211	206	202	202
Wind (km/h)	SSE	SE	E	E	E	ENE	E	ESE	ESE	ESE	E	ESE	ESE	E	ESE	E	ESE	ESE	E	ESE	ESE	ESE	E	ESE
Wind State (?) onshore cross-onshore cross-shore cross-offshore offshore glassy	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)			7:26PM 0.87								7:55PM 0.82									8:20PM 0.76
Low Tide / height (m)								10:47AM 0.09									11:08AM 0.11

	Tuesday 16				Wednesday 17								Thursday 18								Friday 19
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:24	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:22	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:22	-
Sunset	-	6:28	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:28	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:27	-	-	-	-	-	-

Rain (mm)	1	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	4	3	1	1	-	1	1	-	2	4	5	4	3	1	-	-
Temp. °C	29	29	28	27	27	27	27	28	29	28	28	27	26	26	27	27	28	28	27	27	26	26	27	28
Feels °C (?)	31	31	31	29	30	30	31	31	31	30	29	29	28	29	30	30	30	31	29	30	29	29	30	31

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Recent Eyeball Surf Reports for New Georgia

Wind Update The wind is still offshore at Skull Island (light winds from the E at Munda-New Georgia 11 km from Skull Island). 0.5m 9s swell from the SSE with a 0.1m 16s long period groundswell from the S and a 0.1m 14s groundswell, also from the S. 3 swells combining to make bigger set waves.
2 hours 33 minutes ago Skull Island

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2 h 33 min ago

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