Vanthrax Surf Forecast

/ La Cote Basque (36 surf breaks) /

France (410 surf breaks)

Surf Forecasts:

Vanthrax surfForecast / La Cote Basque / France

48hr Weather and Surf, issued 1 pm Tuesday 21 Oct 2025 CEST

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

Today's Vanthrax sea temperature is 19.4° C
(Which is 2.3°C warmer than normal for this time of year)

How big are the waves at Vanthrax today?

The current surf forecast for Vanthrax at 8PM is: 2.4m 11s primary swell from a Northwest direction (forecast issued at 01:00pm October 21). The wind direction is predicted to be cross-offshore and the swell rating is 3.

Time (CEST) & Date	Wave Height	Wave Period
Morning (21 Oct)	10ft (3.0m)	12s
Afternoon (21 Oct)	8ft (2.4m)	11s
Evening (21 Oct)	7.5ft (2.3m)	10s

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

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	Tuesday 21					Wednesday 22								Thursday 23								Friday 24
	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	11 PM	2 AM	5 AM	8 AM
Rating (10 max)	4	4	4	3	3	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	1	1	2	0	0	0	5	4	3	4	4	4
Swell Height Map See all maps
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	NW	NW	NW	NW	NW	NW	NW	WNW	WNW	WNW	WNW	WNW	WNW	WNW	WNW	WNW	WNW	WNW	WNW	WNW	WNW	NW	NW	NW
Period(s) (?)	12	11	11	11	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	9	9	10	10	11	12	13	13	13	12	12	12	12
Wave Graph (?)
kJ (?)	1903	1466	1363	1313	866	625	958	1028	913	787	787	674	531	688	892	4953	12749	11910	10076	7596	5940	4493	3500	2888
Wind (km/h)	SSW	SW	SW	SSW	SSW	SW	SSW	SSW	S	SW	NW	WSW	SSW	SW	WSW	WNW	WNW	WNW	WNW	WNW	WNW	W	W	WSW
Wind State (?) onshore cross-onshore cross-shore cross-offshore offshore glassy	cross- off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	glass	off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off
High Tide / height (m)				5:18PM 3.65				5:33AM 3.62				5:48PM 3.61				6:01AM 3.61				6:17PM 3.52				6:29AM 3.54
Low Tide / height (m)		11:02AM 0.29				11:19PM 0.27				11:34AM 0.27				11:49PM 0.32				12:06PM 0.31				12:20AM 0.42

	Tuesday 21					Wednesday 22								Thursday 23								Friday 24
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:27	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:29	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	7:15	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:13	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:12	-	-	-	-	-

Rain (mm)	1	1	-	1	1	2	1	1	-	-	-	1	-	1	4	4	-	-	1	1	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	17	21	22	19	18	18	17	17	19	22	23	21	22	21	21	16	15	16	16	16	16	15	15	13
Feels °C (?)	15	20	22	18	18	17	16	16	19	21	24	20	20	16	17	7	5	6	8	9	10	11	11	9

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Recent Eyeball Surf Reports for La Cote Basque

Wind Update Continuing clean conditions at Vanthrax (calm at SanSebastianFuenterrabia 4 km from Vanthrax). A 2.3m swell from the WNW
46 minutes ago Vanthrax

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Actual: 46 min ago

4 km/h

Clean

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