Swanage Surf Forecast

/ South Coast (36 surf breaks) /

UK (471 surf breaks) / Lat Long: (50.61° N 1.96° W)

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Swanage surfForecast / South Coast / UK

48hr Weather and Surf, issued 6 am Sunday 14 Sep 2025 BST

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

Today's Swanage sea temperature is 18.1° C
(Which is 1.8°C warmer than normal for this time of year)

How big are the waves at Swanage today?

The current surf forecast for Swanage at 12PM is: 0.6m 7s primary swell from a Southwest direction and 0.2m 12s secondary swell from a West-southwest direction, 0.8m 4s secondary swell from a South direction (forecast issued at 06:00am September 14). The wind direction is predicted to be cross-onshore.

Time (BST) & Date	Wave Height	Wave Period
Morning (14 Sep)	2.5ft (0.8m)	7s
Afternoon (14 Sep)	1.5ft (0.5m)	7s
Evening (14 Sep)	10ft (3.0m)	8s

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

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	Sunday 14							Monday 15								Tuesday 16								Wed 17
	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	10 PM	1 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	0	0
Swell Height Map See all maps
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	SW	SW	SW	SW	SSW	SW	SW	SW	WSW	WSW	WSW	WSW	WSW	WSW	WSW	WSW	WSW	WSW	WSW	WSW	WSW	WSW	WSW	SW
Period(s) (?)	7	7	7	7	5	7	8	8	9	9	9	9	9	8	8	7	7	7	7	6	6	6	12	11
Wave Graph (?)
kJ (?)	104	77	64	25	0	821	1334	1638	1809	1592	1974	2261	2365	1601	1132	826	561	338	249	0	0	0	55	33
Wind (km/h)	WSW	SSW	S	SSE	SSW	SW	WSW	WSW	WSW	WSW	WSW	WSW	WSW	W	W	W	W	W	W	WSW	W	W	WSW	WSW
Wind State (?) onshore cross-onshore cross-shore cross-offshore offshore glassy	off	cross- off	cross	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	off	cross- off	off	off	off	off	off	off	off	off	off	off	off	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)		5:07AM 0.81		12:48PM 1.16		5:27PM 0.85			1:21AM 0.99	6:14AM 0.89			1:57PM 1.00	6:20PM 0.92					7:16AM 0.97			7:00PM 1.00
Low Tide / height (m)	3:53AM 0.79		8:44AM 0.38			4:14PM 0.83	9:21PM 0.39			4:09AM 0.82	9:54AM 0.52			4:39PM 0.89		10:47PM 0.43				11:31AM 0.56				12:26AM 0.34

	Sunday 14							Monday 15								Tuesday 16								Wed 17
Sunrise	-	6:39	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:41	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:43	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	7:24	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:22	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:20	-	-

Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	2	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	14	14	16	16	17	18	17	16	15	15	15	15	16	16	15	14	14	14	15	16	16	16	15	15
Feels °C (?)	12	12	12	10	11	10	9	7	7	7	5	5	6	7	6	6	6	7	9	9	9	11	11	10

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Recent Eyeball Surf Reports for South Coast

Wind Update Continuing clean conditions at Swanage (calm at Bournemouth Airport 20 km from Swanage). 0.7m 7s swell from the SW with a 0.3m 3s local chop from the S. 2 swells combining to make bigger set waves.
2 hours 11 minutes ago Swanage

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