South Padre Island Surf Forecast

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South Padre Island surfForecast / Texas / USA

48hr Weather and Surf, issued 12 am Thursday 18 Sep 2025 CDT

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

Today's South Padre Island sea temperature is 30.4° C
(Which is 1.8°C warmer than normal for this time of year)

How big are the waves at South Padre Island today?

The current surf forecast for South Padre Island at 4AM is: 1.2m 6s primary swell from a East direction (forecast issued at 12:00am September 18). The wind direction is predicted to be cross-onshore.

Time (CDT) & Date	Wave Height	Wave Period
Morning (18 Sep)	3.5ft (1.1m)	6s
Afternoon (18 Sep)	3.5ft (1.0m)	6s
Evening (18 Sep)	3.5ft (1.0m)	5s

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

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		Thursday 18								Friday 19								Saturday 20
	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)	0	0	0	0	0	0	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 (?)	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	ESE	ESE	SE	E	E	ESE	ESE	ESE	ESE	ESE	ESE
Period(s) (?)	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	7	6	6	6	6	6
Wave Graph (?)
kJ (?)	120	119	98	99	83	66	61	57	51	53	42	33	24	10	9	9	16	16	9	27	26	33	34	34
Wind (km/h)	E	ESE	ESE	ESE	ESE	E	E	E	E	ESE	ESE	E	E	E	E	E	E	ESE	SE	SE	SE	SE	SE	ESE
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	on	cross- on	on	on	on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on
High Tide / height (m)				4:58AM 0.47								5:07AM 0.42		12:28PM 0.39						4:49AM 0.37			2:13PM 0.39
Low Tide / height (m)	7:12PM -0.01								8:11PM 0.03				9:33AM 0.38				9:02PM 0.09				9:33AM 0.32

		Thursday 18								Friday 19								Saturday 20
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	7:15	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:15	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:16	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:29	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:28	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:27

Rain (mm)	1	2	4	5	6	5	2	-	-	-	-	2	1	1	1	-	-	-	2	1	-	1	-	-
Temp. °C	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	27	27	27	27	28	28	28	28	28	27	27	28	28	29	28
Feels °C (?)	29	29	29	30	30	29	28	28	28	28	29	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	29	30	30	29	30	29

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Recent Eyeball Surf Reports for Texas

Wind Update The wind is still cross-on at South Padre Island (fresh winds from the SE at BUOY-BZST2 2 km from South Padre Island). A 1.3m windswell from the E
1 hour 27 minutes ago South Padre Island

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1 h 27 min ago

32 km/h

Cross-On

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