The Boiler Surf Forecast

/ Cape Town (69 surf breaks) /

South Africa (273 surf breaks)

Surf Forecasts:

The Boiler surfForecast / Cape Town / South Africa

48hr Weather and Surf, issued 1 am Friday 17 Oct 2025 SAST

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

Today's The Boiler sea temperature is 16.0° C
(Which is normal for this time of year)

How big are the waves at The Boiler today?

The current surf forecast for The Boiler at 5AM is: 3.0m 13s primary swell from a South-southwest direction (forecast issued at 01:00am October 17). An open ocean swell of 1.7m 7s is not directed at the surf break. The wind direction is predicted to be offshore and the swell rating is 4.

Time (SAST) & Date	Wave Height	Wave Period
Morning (17 Oct)	8ft (2.5m)	13s
Afternoon (17 Oct)	8ft (2.5m)	12s
Evening (17 Oct)	7.5ft (2.3m)	12s

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

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		Friday 17								Saturday 18								Sunday 19
	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)	3	4	4	4	4	3	2	3	3	1	0	3	1	1	3	2	4	6	6	7	5	4	0	2
Swell Height Map See all maps
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SW	SW	SW	SW	SW
Period(s) (?)	13	13	13	13	12	12	12	12	11	11	11	11	11	11	12	14	16	17	17	16	16	16	16	16
Wave Graph (?)
kJ (?)	4397	3543	2800	2277	1863	1886	1569	1377	1204	814	657	988	862	910	1363	2546	4858	9513	10464	8424	7426	6628	5805	4896
Wind (km/h)	ESE	ESE	ESE	ESE	SSE	SSW	SSW	S	S	S	SSW	S	SSW	SSW	S	SSE	SSE	SE	SE	SE	SE	SE	SE	SE
Wind State (?) onshore cross-onshore cross-shore cross-offshore offshore glassy	off	off	off	off	glass	cross	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross	cross- off	cross	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off
High Tide / height (m)		12:48AM 1.21				1:03PM 1.37				1:26AM 1.29				1:36PM 1.45				1:57AM 1.36					2:05PM 1.51
Low Tide / height (m)				6:53AM 0.35				7:25PM 0.26				7:29AM 0.28				7:57PM 0.18				7:59AM 0.23

		Friday 17								Saturday 18								Sunday 19
Sunrise	-	-	-	6:03	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:01	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:00	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:00	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:01	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:02	-

Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	13	13	13	14	16	17	17	16	16	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	14	14	14	14	16	16	16	16
Feels °C (?)	5	7	9	11	15	15	13	13	12	10	9	11	12	11	11	10	8	7	7	7	8	8	7	7

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Recent Eyeball Surf Reports for Cape Town

Wind Update Continuing clean conditions at The Boiler (calm at Shoebury Heights wx 17 km from The Boiler). A 3.0m groundswell from the S is too big for here
2 hours 34 minutes ago The Boiler

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17 km away, 2 h 34 min ago

2 km/h

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0.0

16.0

Air / Water (°C)

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