Western Head Reef Surf Forecast

/ Nova Scotia (17 breaks) / Nova Scotia (20 breaks) /

Canada (58 breaks)

Surf Forecasts:

Western Head Reef surfForecast / Nova Scotia / Canada

48hr Weather and Surf, issued 2 pm Wednesday 22 Oct 2025 ADT

Forecast update in hr min s Forecast update imminent

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

Today's Western Head Reef sea temperature is 14.7° C
(Which is 3.1°C warmer than normal for this time of year)

How big are the waves at Western Head Reef today?

The current surf forecast for Western Head Reef at 4PM is: 1.2m 5s primary swell from a South-southeast direction and 0.6m 9s secondary swell from a East direction (forecast issued at 02:00pm October 22). An open ocean swell of 0.4m 7s is not directed at the surf break. The wind direction is predicted to be cross-onshore.

Time (ADT) & Date	Wave Height	Wave Period
Morning (22 Oct)	-	-
Afternoon (22 Oct)	3.5ft (1.1m)	5s
Evening (22 Oct)	5ft (1.6m)	6s

Table - waves today at Western Head Reef. (Swell directed towards the surf break)

Updates in hr min s Forecast update imminent

12 Days Hourly

Print Table

	Wednesday 22				Thursday 23								Friday 24								Saturday 25
	12 PM	3 PM	6 PM	9 PM	0 AM	3 AM	6 AM	9 AM	12 PM	3 PM	6 PM	9 PM	0 AM	3 AM	6 AM	9 AM	12 PM	3 PM	6 PM	9 PM	0 AM	3 AM	6 AM	9 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 (?)	E	SSE	SSE	SSE	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	E
Period(s) (?)	9	5	5	6	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	11	10	10	10	10	10	10	9	9	10	10	9	9
Wave Graph (?)
kJ (?)	41	59	117	192	44	29	32	53	52	51	53	56	78	73	71	69	68	64	43	43	44	44	42	27
Wind (km/h)	SSE	SSE	SSE	SSW	SSW	SW	WSW	SW	SSW	SSW	SSW	SW	SW	WSW	WSW	WSW	WSW	WSW	WSW	WNW	WNW	NW	NW	NW
Wind State (?) onshore cross-onshore cross-shore cross-offshore offshore glassy	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	on	on	on	cross- on	cross- on	on	on	on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)	9:23AM 1.60				10:01PM 1.52				9:58AM 1.56				10:40PM 1.48				10:34AM 1.51				11:18PM 1.43
Low Tide / height (m)			3:46PM 0.04				3:50AM 0.33				4:14PM 0.05				4:19AM 0.38				4:45PM 0.10				4:50AM 0.44

	Wednesday 22				Thursday 23								Friday 24								Saturday 25
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:41	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:43	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:45
Sunset	-	-	6:23	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:22	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:21	-	-	-	-	-

Rain (mm)	-	-	1	5	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	16	17	17	16	15	14	12	12	15	16	15	12	12	11	11	10	13	14	14	10	8	8	8	8
Feels °C (?)	12	13	12	12	13	12	9	9	10	11	10	8	8	8	8	7	9	9	10	6	5	5	5	5

Map Icons:
Break
Live Wave Height (m)
Live Wind Speed (km/h)
Surf Rating (10 Max)
Ocean Swells (m)
Wind Speed (km/h)

Recent Eyeball Surf Reports for Nova Scotia

Wind Update The wind is still cross-on at Western Head Reef (moderate winds from the SE at Western Head Airport 2 km from Western Head Reef). 0.9m 9s swell from the E with a 0.6m 6s windswell, also from the E. 2 swells combining to make bigger set waves.
2 hours 2 minutes ago Western Head Reef

Expand

View all

2 h 2 min ago

22 km/h

Cross-On

Please reload the page to see if there are any updates.

FREE! Surf-Forecast.com widget for your website

The surf report / weather widget below is available to embed on third party websites free of charge and provides a summary of our Western Head Reef surf forecast. Simply grab the html code snippet that we provide and paste it into your own site. You can choose your preferred language and metric/imperial units for the surf forecast feed to suit users of your site. Click here to get the code.