Super Tubes Surf Forecast

/ Eastern Cape (S) (37 surf breaks) /

South Africa (273 surf breaks) / Lat Long: (34.02° S 24.94° E)

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Super Tubes surfForecast / Eastern Cape (S) / South Africa

48hr Weather and Surf, issued 1 am Tuesday 19 Aug 2025 SAST

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

Today's Super Tubes sea temperature is 17.2° C
(Which is 1.6°C colder than average for this time of year)

How big are the waves at Super Tubes today?

The current surf forecast for Super Tubes at 6AM is: 0.8m 15s primary swell from a Southwest direction (forecast issued at 01:00am August 19). An open ocean swell of 1.2m 10s is not directed at the surf break, a second open ocean swell of 0.9m 4s is not directed at the surf break. The wind direction is predicted to be cross-offshore and the swell rating is 2.

Time (SAST) & Date	Wave Height	Wave Period
Morning (19 Aug)	2.5ft (0.8m)	14s
Afternoon (19 Aug)	8ft (2.4m)	16s
Evening (19 Aug)	6ft (1.8m)	14s

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

Hourly 12 Days

Eastern Cape (South) Surf

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		Tuesday 19								Wednesday 20								Thursday 21
	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)	2	2	2	2	3	3	3	4	4	3	3	3	2	3	3	3	2	2	4	6	7	4	3	4
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Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW
Period(s) (?)	16	16	16	18	15	16	16	15	14	14	14	13	13	13	13	12	12	12	11	12	12	12	12	12
Wave Graph (?)
Energy (?)	390	458	454	613	974	2899	2246	2116	1823	1688	1737	1478	1254	1137	939	724	646	522	2199	7302	8955	4071	3713	3256
Wind (km/h)	WNW	W	WNW	WNW	SW	SW	WSW	W	NW	NNW	N	N	NNE	W	SSW	NW	WNW	NW	WNW	WNW	WSW	SW	SW	W
Wind State (?) onshore cross-onshore cross-shore cross-offshore offshore glassy	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	off	off	cross- off	cross	cross	cross- on	cross- on	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	off	off
High Tide / height (m)		12:38AM 1.21				1:28PM 1.21				1:46AM 1.33					2:19PM 1.37				2:32AM 1.44				2:58PM 1.52
Low Tide / height (m)				7:14AM 0.49				7:37PM 0.49					8:09AM 0.35				8:29PM 0.35				8:48AM 0.22

		Tuesday 19								Wednesday 20								Thursday 21
Sunrise	-	-	-	6:54	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:54	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:52	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:52	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:52	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:53	-

Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	16	15	14	15	19	19	17	16	14	14	14	13	19	22	19	16	16	15	15	14	18	17	17	15
Feels °C (?)	14	12	11	13	15	14	13	14	12	13	12	11	17	20	16	14	13	12	12	12	14	12	12	13

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Recent Eyeball Surf Reports for Eastern Cape (S)

Wind Update Calm condsitions have become offshore at Fence (Port Elizabeth) (light winds from the WSW at Port Elizabeth Airport 4 km from Fence (Port Elizabeth)). 1.1m 10s swell from the E with a 0.8m 16s long period groundswell from the SSW and a 0.5m 8s swell from the SW. 3 swells combining to make bigger set waves.
1 hour 54 minutes ago Fence (Port Elizabeth)

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19 km away, 45 min ago

3 km/h

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17.2

Air / Water (°C)

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